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  • Bob Hinton
    Inactive
    • Feb 2008
    • 654

    #1

    Attention All Geniuses

    Attention all geniuses! Can anyone decipher the following writing? I have got so far “Formerly the husband of Violet Leyland Wigglesworth nee Crawford” but that’s it. Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
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  • belinda
    *
    • Feb 2008
    • 618

    #2
    I think the last word is District

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    • Steven Russell
      Sergeant
      • Mar 2010
      • 650

      #3
      "...from whom he has obtained a divorce"?

      Best wishes,

      Steve.

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      • Steven Russell
        Sergeant
        • Mar 2010
        • 650

        #4
        What is it anyway, Bob?

        Steve.

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        • Bob Hinton
          Inactive
          • Feb 2008
          • 654

          #5
          Many thanks

          Originally posted by Steven Russell View Post
          What is it anyway, Bob?

          Steve.
          I don't know, but I think it is " from whom he obtained a divorce".

          Thanks to the Brains Trust.

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          • Steven Russell
            Sergeant
            • Mar 2010
            • 650

            #6
            I meant what is the document? I am pretty confident about the wording.

            Best wishes,

            Steve.

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            • m_w_r
              Detective
              • Feb 2008
              • 410

              #7
              Hi,

              I'll go along with the proposed wording. It makes sense in the context of this record in the National Archives Catalogue.

              Click link

              Regards,

              Mark

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              • tji
                Sergeant
                • Feb 2008
                • 523

                #8
                Hi all

                Good call Steve, I got the rest just not 'obtained', still can't make that one out even having been told that's what it is!

                tj
                It's not about what you know....it's about what you can find out

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                • Steven Russell
                  Sergeant
                  • Mar 2010
                  • 650

                  #9
                  tji,

                  Thanks. Notice how the lower case 'e's are quite tall as in "divorce". You can make "obtained" fit if you really want to. Anyway, m_w_r's post confirms the meaning if not the precice wording.

                  Best wishes,

                  Steve.

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                  • Phil Carter
                    Commissioner
                    • Oct 2009
                    • 4270

                    #10
                    Hello Steve,

                    To my eyes it is indeed "from whom he has obtained a divorce"?

                    best wishes

                    Phil
                    Chelsea FC. TRUE BLUE. 💙


                    Justice for the 96 = achieved
                    Accountability? ....

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                    • tji
                      Sergeant
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 523

                      #11
                      Hi Steve

                      Not doubting you - just don't think I could have gotten the word.

                      I can see the o connected to the (old fashioned) b at the top but then the t seems to have no cross bar and a dot at the top, all this would have threw me.

                      Although in his defence I don't suppose the writer was expecting to have his work dissected years later, I'm sure he would have written neater if he had known.

                      tj
                      It's not about what you know....it's about what you can find out

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                      • Steven Russell
                        Sergeant
                        • Mar 2010
                        • 650

                        #12
                        Looks as if the author was either writing in a very confined space or might have overdone it the night before though doesn't it? And well done to Bob for deciphering "Formerly". That one's not obvious at all at first glance but I'm sure he's right.

                        Best Wishes,

                        Steve.

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                        • Steven Russell
                          Sergeant
                          • Mar 2010
                          • 650

                          #13
                          Dear tji,

                          The cross bars on some of the other 't's are indistinct or virtually absent and I think that your dot belongs to a row of dots. Could be wrong of course but, as I said earlier, I feel pretty confident about this one.

                          All the best,

                          Steve.

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                          • Steven Russell
                            Sergeant
                            • Mar 2010
                            • 650

                            #14
                            In fact, looking at it again, the t bars in "the", "Violet", and "obtained" do not connect with the rest of the t and in "the" and "obtained" appear above the next letter in the word. Assuming you accept my reading, of course.

                            Best wishes,

                            Steve.

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                            • Bob Hinton
                              Inactive
                              • Feb 2008
                              • 654

                              #15
                              Oops!

                              Originally posted by Steven Russell View Post
                              I meant what is the document? I am pretty confident about the wording.

                              Best wishes,

                              Steve.
                              Sorry Steve been a bit under the weather recently the old brain is slowing down. It's a marriage certificate. Now get this the man marries a woman in 1912. Then in 1923 he marries the same woman again but this time she's using a different name! Go figure.

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