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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Puzzled
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:02:12 +0000
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>place so i have always assumed that the informant was Fanny Matthews nee
>Dunn especially as i am not aware of any of my female Matthews having the
>first name Fanny.However if that is the case why could she write when she
>was married in 1855
>but could not write when my gt grandmother was born in 1863.
>I have never been able to fathom it out .Would welcome some thoughts.

>
This is not unusual. Quite a lot of brides (and grooms) were coached to
write their name and just their name when they married, like a sort of
party trick. But not using the talent ever afterwards, they forgot how
to do it. I have seen this plenty of times.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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