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ElizabethHerts
26-10-11, 15:43
My daughter and her husband purchased an old bible at a charity shop.

It has an inscription in it (I can't upload it to Photobucket because it is an Adobe file)

It says:

Percy Morgan and
Matilda Eleanor Collyer

then a word which looks like "Mountain" or "M o n a t a i c e" on the next line, centred

Married April 18, 1894

with best wishes and affectionate regards
from Rev Edwd J Stevens
Sibford Gower Vicarage



We can't find a record of this marriage, and it doesn't say that they actually got married there.

Rev. Edward Stevens was vicar at Sibford Gower until 1898.

Can anyone help solve this mystery, please?
kiterunner
26-10-11, 16:04
It has an inscription in it (I can't upload it to Photobucket because it is an Adobe file)


Can't you press "PRNT SCRN" while the PDF file is displayed on your screen and then paste the screen image into Microsoft Paint (or similar) and crop it then save and use that for Photobucket?
ElizabethHerts
26-10-11, 16:08
KiteRunner, not quite sure how to do that!
I have "PrtScnSysRq" in top hand right corner, but it doesn't seem to do anything when I press it.
WendyPusey
26-10-11, 16:18
If you press PrtScnSysRq it saves a copy in the clipboard. You then need to paste this image into a graphics program ie Paint.
ElizabethHerts
26-10-11, 16:23
I wonder if the word is "Mountain"?

Haha, found it - He was called Percy Morgan Mountain.

Name: MOUNTAIN, Percy Morgan
Registration District: Help Croydon
County: Surrey
Year of Registration: 1894
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Spouse's last name: Not available before 1912
Volume No: Help 2A
Page No: Help 419
MarriageFinder?: Percy Morgan Mountain married one of the following people Help


WATSON, Emily Rowley view record


WOODGATE, Matilda Eleanor C
ElizabethHerts
26-10-11, 16:28
Percy died the next year.

Name: MOUNTAIN, Percy Morgan
Registration District: Lambeth
County: London
Year of Registration: 1895
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at death: 27
Volume No: 1D
Page No: 430
WendyPusey
26-10-11, 17:05
Several trees on ancestry with him on.
ElizabethHerts
26-10-11, 17:27
Thanks, yes, I have found them Wendy. I have managed to make quite a decent history now I was able to decipher that his surname was Mountain and not Morgan!

The page made it look as though Percy Morgan married Matilda Eleanor Collyer.