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Offline Janet Waterhouse

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Identify witness on marriage certificate
« on: Saturday 15 February 25 11:35 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
can you decipher the surname of the witness, forename Squire on the attached certificate for me.

Regards,

Janet

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Re: Identify witness on marriage certificate
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 15 February 25 12:06 GMT (UK) »
It looks like Betsy to me.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Identify witness on marriage certificate
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 15 February 25 12:37 GMT (UK) »
Betsy
Daubney's of Lincoln:-:Fox's of Ringley:-:Norris's of Chorley:-:Tong's of Bolton:-:Chadwick's of Leeds

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Re: Identify witness on marriage certificate
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 15 February 25 12:42 GMT (UK) »
I am looking for the surname of Squire, the name above Betsy.

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Re: Identify witness on marriage certificate
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 15 February 25 14:14 GMT (UK) »
It looks like Rehae to me which is a USA surname

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Re: Identify witness on marriage certificate
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 15 February 25 14:25 GMT (UK) »
It's so badly formed it might be almost anything, fairly short (5 or 6 letters?) beginning with B, R or D ?
I would say it has h or d or l in the middle, and there are no letters with descenders.

Perhaps try looking for individuals named Squire in the 1891 census for Morley?

Or anyone with that name who married in the same church around that time?

Or browse for any other marriage in the same Morley register that he might have witnessed?

Or try the newspapers?

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Re: Identify witness on marriage certificate
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 16 February 25 02:02 GMT (UK) »
It could be Melrose.

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Re: Identify witness on marriage certificate
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 16 February 25 09:38 GMT (UK) »
Good morning,
thank you for your suggestions.  Bookbox, the only suggestion which I have not tried are entries in the newspapers.

Regards.

Janet

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Re: Identify witness on marriage certificate
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 16 February 25 14:52 GMT (UK) »
Hello,looks like Betsy Jarvis to me &  janice
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