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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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greenspaces4peace · 12/03/2023 01:50

@MMBaranova wonderful research, this is the beauty of mn!

SeriousFaffing · 12/03/2023 02:05

Heriat
www.ancestry.com.au/name-origin?surname=heriat

ToffeeNotCoffee · 12/03/2023 02:10

Christina Hutton's Maiden Surname ?

It's their marriage certificate as the minister's details are given.

Are her father's details not on the same page or any other reference document ?

Did the Hutton's have children ? If so, would the Maiden Surname of the mother be on the child's birth certificate ?

Could you find Christina's birth certificate ? That would give her name prior to her (first) marriage.

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PacificallyRequested · 11/03/2023 23:43

Actually, the first letter looks a bit like the J in James in the column to the right, but I can't think what the other letters could be if the name starts with J.

Yeah I'd say a J too

ElizaMulvil · 12/03/2023 02:43

Heriot

Kam610 · 12/03/2023 04:25

I would say Hersal. I don't think it's a double r as the 4th letter isn't joined, and an r is quite easy to join. Definitely looks like an s to me.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 12/03/2023 06:33

Stuart?

spangleswereace · 12/03/2023 07:01

Yes I thought Stuart too as soon as I saw it!

Jwab21 · 12/03/2023 07:52

Thank you @BoatsAndHoes for posting this for me!
this is a marriage record of Benjamin Hutton and Isabella Erskine from Scotland, in 1866.
I’ve got the other names as David Hutton, Ralph Erskine and Isabella Erskine/Hogg.

Ive tried using website ScotlandsPeople to find Benjamin Huttons birth certificate and find out his mothers name that way. Unfortunately, ScotlandsPeople only goes back to 1855, and he was born before this.

On MyHeritage Ive found a record of a Benjamin Hutton born in 1843, and the mothers maiden name is Herriot/Herriott. But I am struggling to read Herriot on that marriage record!

howaboutchocolate · 12/03/2023 08:03

Kessal?

the bit after the first letter is exactly the same as the "ess" in hairdresser above it. The first letter looks like a more elaborate version of another K they've written, if you follow the lines the way they've written it rather than how it looks.

MMBaranova · 12/03/2023 13:19

@Jwab21 ... Ive tried using website ScotlandsPeople to find Benjamin Huttons birth certificate and find out his mothers name that way. Unfortunately, ScotlandsPeople only goes back to 1855, and he was born before this....

I posted a transcript of the baptism certificate for Benjamin Hutton. You probably found the same, or a version on another service. The OP image is Heriot. The i is not dotted, but, despite having far better handwriting than me, people in the past weren't using a keyboard with its regular characters.

This family group was fairly easy to find with pretty good confidence on the fly last night, appearing on Ancestry, Family Search and Find My Past (I didn't go any further). They appear in many family trees posted online, with some variations in spelling. As ever with things genealogical, some of the research looks (at a glance) solid and well supported and some people have made a real mess of things.

Scottish sources are not things I have used much, but have done a fair bit of personal Irish heritage delving (can be frustrating thanks to Four Courts fire etc.) and in English sources for relatives by marriage. The ScotlandsPeople site looks fascinating.

Good luck with the research. On the side I'm doing some research on Ukraine roots. Worthwhile site here with 53 pages of Baranov(a)s - my mother's family name:

pra.in.ua/uk

samandpoppysmummy · 13/03/2023 01:07

It’s definitely Heriot - Christina’s maiden name.

Can anyone help decipher this name...?
Can anyone help decipher this name...?
Fraaahnces · 13/03/2023 03:50

I would say Hewat. I have googled a lot of the other spellings and Hewat is the only one that makes sense linguistically.

Jwab21 · 13/03/2023 09:41

@samandpoppysmummy this is great - which app/website are you using? I haven’t found any of this in my searches!

@MMBaranova thank you!! I shall go back have a look! I find it all so fascinating

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