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Can anyone help decipher this name...?

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BoatsAndHoes · 11/03/2023 23:25

Posting on behalf of a friend who is tracing their family tree - we are all stuck on the underlined name, anyone have any ideas?!

Can anyone help decipher this name...?
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ISolemnlySwearIAmUpToNoGood · 12/03/2023 00:07

Another vote for Herrat

Linnet · 12/03/2023 00:07

I’d say Hewat

MMBaranova · 12/03/2023 00:13

Zooming out would be helpful, to see more context and examples.

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KikkisCat · 12/03/2023 00:14

I agree with those saying it does not start with a 'H' - looks totally different to the H's in Hutton & Hogg which are very consistent. Definitely need a bigger sample of the writing to compare capital letters.

LuluBlakey1 · 12/03/2023 00:19

Heuat or Henat

passthegingordon · 12/03/2023 00:21

It's definitely an H. It's Heuat (as in Hewat).

AdaColeman · 12/03/2023 00:21

I'd say it was Huat.
Look at George Arnot on the lower line, and the last two letters are very alike.

The complicated capital H that the writer makes has an extra loop rather like an e as a final twirl, as in Hogg on the lower line, but on this name it has become separated from the main letter H, that's why it looks a bit different from the other capital Hs.

Remember that they may only have heard the name, not seen it correctly written, so the name could be Huart or similar.
If only they had been told to print when filling the forms in!

Linnet · 12/03/2023 00:22

I take it the names are the parents of the person getting married? How old was the person getting married, have they tried finding their birth entry and the names of the parents that way?

Smineusername · 12/03/2023 00:22

Stewart

PlateBilledDuckyPerson · 12/03/2023 00:23

Smineusername · 12/03/2023 00:22

Stewart

I considered that, but there's no r between the a and the t.

LuluBlakey1 · 12/03/2023 00:25

I think it is a form of Hewatt or Hewett - which when sounded could easily be written as Heuat.

What is the married name - Houtton or Hutton. I take it this is Scotland?

LuluBlakey1 · 12/03/2023 00:26

Have you noticed she seems to be named as a witness in the record below?

IHateLegDay · 12/03/2023 00:26

There are 4 capital H's, all in the exact same style and that looks completely different to them. I'm not sure which letter it is but I don't think it's an H.

Timetochangetheoil · 12/03/2023 00:28

The first letter looks more like a J than an H.

MMBaranova · 12/03/2023 00:36

Yes Christina Hutton being a witness in the next entry is interesting.

Up above we have a Minister in the United Presbyterian Church (we are in Scotland aren't we?) so that dates the document to the UPC's existence: 1847-1900 I suppose. Are these records to do with deaths of children (left column)?

Is the mystery word the maiden name of Christina?

FrazzledHippy · 12/03/2023 00:36

David Button?

CharlotteFlax · 12/03/2023 00:36

Heriot

IVflytrap · 12/03/2023 00:48

I read it as Hurst.

Agapornis · 12/03/2023 00:59

MMBaranova · 12/03/2023 00:13

Zooming out would be helpful, to see more context and examples.

This. I regularly use handwritten records of the same period and you really need at least a role page for context and comparison, at high resolution, not a pixely screen. The more you read, the more you get used to the person's handwriting.

Not sure about the first letter but pretty sure it ends in ersat.

MMBaranova · 12/03/2023 01:04

@CharlotteFlax gets it right (in my opinion).

Heriot, with the spelling Herriott in some records.

Isabella Erskine is the key.

Benjamin, a child of David and Christina Hutton (nee 'Herriott' according to an online tree I can see) marries Isabella Erskine in Dunfermline, Fife in 1866. I'd delve further but it's late/early and I'd love a bit more context.

Agapornis · 12/03/2023 01:04

*whole page

Agapornis · 12/03/2023 01:10

@MMBaranova the writer is quite consistently firmly dotting the i's though - if rather far above the i. I can't see a dot for Heriot? It has a slight wobble and is not as straight as the other I'd. Closer to the s in James.

MarmiteWine · 12/03/2023 01:17

Could it be Jewet?

MMBaranova · 12/03/2023 01:23

@agapornis ....the writer is quite consistently firmly dotting the i's though...

Yes, true, apart from that one in the small sample of a page we can see. We don't have to have consistency and we lack more context. I went looking for documentation having scratched my head over the handwriting.

Evidence for Heriot (by assuming also Herriott at times, David Hutton, wife Christina, Isabella Erskine, era of the UPC in Scotland etc.) in images.

You might have to click to maximise and see. Sources: Find My Past citing Family Search). The transcriber has Christina as Christian, but that's par for the course with transcription errors.

This is not the record OP posted but seems to share a cast of characters.

Can anyone help decipher this name...?
Can anyone help decipher this name...?
MMBaranova · 12/03/2023 01:35

Word in left column is Beath as in Hill of Beath at Cowdenbeath just East of Dunfermline? Beath is where Benjamin Hutton and Isabella nee Erskine are living according to the 1871 census. Various online family trees are picking up the Herriott spelling, but I'll go for Heriot in the OP posted record for now.

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