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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Who is Household 4969?

What names are on lines 38-40 of this census page? The entire census page can be viewed by clicking on the image below.



8 comments:

  1. George Motlice
    Erastena "
    Frederick "

    Another case of beautiful, but not necessarily legible handwriting.

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  2. I agree with Sue regarding the first names of the three people, but that last name is unreadable to me.

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  3. An example of the Palmer Method of handwriting.

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  4. I didn't indicate that this was the 1860 census, but the Palmer method was developed in the 1880s.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Method

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  5. George Metlier
    Crastena (Christina) Metlier
    Frederick Metlier

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  6. George Mosbie
    Crastina
    Frederick

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  7. George Motlice
    Crastena
    Frederick

    Interesting that it uses both styles of lower cases Rs - what I call the Catholic school R and the public school R. Don't really know how they originated. I grew up in the US in the 60s.

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  8. George
    Erastena
    Frederick

    for the first names.

    The last name is something beginning with "Mot" with the remaining portion looking like "lice."

    The actual last name is Mathes. I can see them saying it in a way that sounds like "moth is," but that still doesn't quite explain the spelling.

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