Who did the bride marry?

[AlanC]

A difficult Register where the Curate's writing isn't good and he has to write in Groom's name. In FreeBMD it is entered as 'Male' but it could be 'Vale' or even 'Bale'.................can anyone help please...............also make a suggestion for 2nd witness signature.

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[JudithM]

A difficult Register where the Curate's writing isn't good and he has to write in Groom's name. In FreeBMD it is entered as 'Male' but it could be 'Vale' or even 'Bale'.................can anyone help please...............also make a suggestion for 2nd witness signature.

Difficult to tell without more of the curate's writing to compare with but Freebmd have him as Male because he was entered on the GRO index as Male. You can view the original index http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/infor...bmd_1378192000
Of course the indexers back in the 19th century may have misread the name but I see there were several others of that name, including another in Liverpool.

The witness name looks like McLallan to me

[Tora]

Another guess for the witness - McCallan.

Tora

[AlanC]

Thanks Judith. The next marriage shows groom as a Mariner and the 'M' is similar so it's probably 'Male' but in isolation it could be anything. If you didn't know the form of William, you'd be hard pushed to figure the first letter of his Christian name.

[kylejustin]

the groom's name looks like 'vale' but the signature looks like 'neale'. the second wittness looks like 'mary mccallum'

[Anne in Carlisle]

I wondered about Veale. The signature part looks a bit like that.
Anne

[AlanC]

Thank you ladies, I'll have to move on to the next entry. I opted for 'Male' since the Curate did form his 'M' rather similar in other instances. For the witness, I've gone for 'Mc Lallan' and hope their ancestors will forgive me if incorrect.

[JBee]

Have you tried to find the couple in the census? if it's early enough.

[Christine in Herts]

The transcriber on Lancs BMD also thought that the groom's surname was "Male".

Christine