Same signature?

[Sue from Southend]

Opinions needed as to whether the signature of Daniel Carpenter, the groom, here, top left hand record http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1623/31280_194751-00599/2060276?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk %2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26f8%3djames%26f10%3dnoon e%26rg_81004011__date%3d%26rs_81004011__date%3d0%2 6rg_f51__date%3d1800%26rs_f51__date%3d10%26f99%3d% 26f53%3d%26f23%3d%26f24%3d%26f18%3d%26f19%3d%26f28 %3d%26f29%3d%26gskw%3d%26prox%3d1%26db%3dlmamarria ges%26ti%3d5538%26ti.si%3d0%26gl%3d%26gss%3drfs%26 gst%3d%26so%3d3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

is the same as the witness in Barnaby Sharp's marriage to Esther Carpenter, here, top right hand record
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1623/31280_195158-00520/2506702?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk %2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26f8%3dbarnaby%2b%26f10%3 dsharp%26sx%3d%26rg_81004011__date%3d%26rs_8100401 1__date%3d0%26rg_f51__date%3d%26rs_f51__date%3d0%2 6f99%3d%26f53%3d%26f23%3d%26f24%3d%26f18%3d%26f19% 3d%26f28%3d%26f29%3d%26gskw%3d%26prox%3d1%26db%3dl mamarriages%26ti%3d5538%26ti.si%3d0%26gl%3d%26gss% 3dmp-lmamarriages%26gst%3d%26so%3d3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

I live in hope!

[Shona]

The witness signature seems less fluid and the cross bars on the 't' of Carpenter are different.

[Sue from Southend]

Thanks Shona

I wasn't sure but I would so like them to be the same person, sighs wistfully....:rolleyes:

[Phoenix]

I'd be inclined to say yes. There's what, 12 years between the two events. Your wedding is important and you are nervous. the witness signature looks more practiced.

I have examples of my mother's handwriting throughout her life and it varies hugely from girlish to mature to spidery.

[Asa]

I think it's the same hand too - similar enough for me

[Margaret in Burton]

I think it's the same hand too - similar enough for me

Me too.

[Sue from Southend]

:):):) Well, thank you all very much!

From the Daniel Carpenter marriage I can link him back to who I believe to be his and Esther Carpenter 's (the bride in the other marriage) parents.

It also confirms another Huguenot link. :)

[Asa]

Sue, once I found one Huguenot line, I found almost all of the ancestors from that great x 2 grandmother were or were likely to be:)

I don't know but I wouldn't have thought there were *that* many Daniel and Esther Carpenters about?

[Sue from Southend]

I don't know but I wouldn't have thought there were *that* many Daniel and Esther Carpenters about?



No, there's not many at all. In fact the only ones I could find were baptised as Charpentier at Threadneedle Street but others of the family were baptised as Carpentier and then it's not a huge leap to full anglicisation. I'm now wondering if Sharp could be an anglicised French name or maybe Piercy ...:D