Signature comparisons please

[Guest]

William Henry Brown.JPGWilliam Brown M.JPGWilliam Brown Please

[Katarzyna]

Difficult Val. I would expect William to sign with a Henry or an H. Also it's Willam Henry not William.
However I think they are pretty similar. The Willam Henry looks a more mature signature - How many years between making the signatures.

[fran]

The Ws don't look the same to me. Neither do the Bs. The first signature looks much neater and looks (to me) more like Willam than William. However,our handwriting does change over time.

[Guest]

thanks for looking one is in 1882 the other in 1901

[PeteW1959]

I would say they have been written by different people. The leading flourish on the 'W' in the first one stays high, whereas in the second one it swoops down to the line. The 'B' in the first one is quite plain, whereas the second one has a similar leading flourish to the 'W'.

However it could be possible that his writing changed if these two are a fair time apart.

[Rick]

Although I can see similarities, I'd say the differences are too great to be conclusive. William Henry is also recorded on the 1891, 1901 and 1911 with his middle name or initial, so would he have missed it off on his marriage cert in 1882 ?

[Guest]

thanks Pete and Rick I am going to go through all the records AGAIN ugh

[AntonyM]

Assuming they are from original church registers, and not copies by the registrar, then I agree with Pete and the reasons in #5 - unlikely to be the same person. Victorians all tended to be taught to write in Copperplate, so can be frustratingly similar in their handwriting.

[Guest]

thanks for your input everybody, back to the drawing board.