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Name Help

MWS

MWS

from Bham
Any ideas please of what the name of number 30 could be...

bap_Greaves_1727a.jpg

It looks like - T - r maybe - third letter could be an e rather than an o - not sure about the 4th - y.

Thanks
 
Looking at the way that "February" is written a couple of times, I would have gone with the name "Feby". It would sound phonetically like "Phoebe". Google search shows that"Feby" has been used as a forename for girls. Dave.
 
The Baptism took place in March so this may explain the name:

[h=3]Feby Name Meaning[/h]* Meaning of Feby name: ( another name for febry ) was born in the month of february.
 
Thanks for the help everyone. The next time I check the records I will see if there's any further references to a Feby/Febry/Phoebe (marriage or death) which ties in.
 
looks to me like the name starts with T and ends in Y and looking at the way the joined up letter B is written elsewhere on the page it looks like the letter B comes before Y

lyn
 
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I thought it was a T going by the name Thomas above but if you look at a baptism above in February the girls name begins with same 4 letters.
The F is like T with a small r attached to it and the next two are just like the e and b in the February so I think either Freby or Frebry.
 
Has to be Feby, surely? Look at how February is written further up., as farmerdave said previously. Whether deliberate or an attempt to transcribe Phoebe, who knows?

There can be little doubt about the F. That method of writing it survived at least into my mother's Edwardian schooldays, and possibly long after. I think I might even have been taught it in my earliest days.

Chris
 
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I agree Chris. I was taught to do this peculiar capital F when I was very young, though don't think I used it for very long. Will have to see if I can find any old things from school to see .
 
Again thanks for everyone's help, a lot of suggestions to keep in mind.

Carolina, the surname is Greavs, with an e that looks like an o, which became Greaves as the years passed.
 
MWS could this be it and it was just mis-spelt on the baptism form,

[TABLE="class: table tableHorizontal tableHorizontalRuled, width: 373"]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TH="align: right"]Name:[/TH]
[TD]Phebe Grevis[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TH="align: right"]Gender:[/TH]
[TD]Female[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TH="align: right"]Baptism Date:[/TH]
[TD]3 Mar 1727[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TH="align: right"]Baptism Place:[/TH]
[TD]Harborne,Stafford,England[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TH="align: right"]Father:[/TH]
[TD]Josh. Grevis[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TH="align: right"]Mother:[/TH]
[TD]Mary[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TH="align: right"]FHL Film Number:[/TH]
[TD]428999[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
 
Yes, thank you, that is the baptism in the scan, it was opinions on the name I was after, which a mis-spelt was one. Hopefully a later reference, a marriage or a death, will help.
 
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