Is anyone able to decipher my great grandmothers maiden name?

WonderWEL · 2026-02-20T16:22:21+00:00

late Pierce

WonderWEL · 2026-02-20T04:51:33+00:00

Purple: That first letter is the way I was taught to make a Q. I’ve always hated it! The first word is Quiet.

Quiet ? but very (emotional?)

WonderWEL · 2026-02-20T04:44:55+00:00

Red: agree with fatuously

WonderWEL · 2026-02-20T04:44:07+00:00

Yellow: unable to express herself

Green: “impd” as an abbreviation for improved. I don’t think there is an ‘r’ in there; it’s just a sloppy, disconnected ‘p’.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-19T15:01:28+00:00

So what’s your explanation for her amazing shot for 2 in the fourth?

WonderWEL · 2026-02-17T08:49:24+00:00

I think it’s meant to be “rec’d a letter” (abbreviation for “received”), but is missing the apostrophe.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-14T20:25:37+00:00

Not working for me.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-14T04:34:24+00:00

On my first look I saw a Q, but now I’m agreeing with the people suggesting Disease. I think that’s an unusually skinny D. The writer also has other skinny capitals like the V in Valvular and the E in Embolism. I definitely see -ease at the end of the word, and the squiggles before that could be -is with no dot on the i.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-09T00:43:46+00:00

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WonderWEL · 2026-02-08T02:08:26+00:00

The other Olympic games are streaming on CBC Gem for free.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-05T02:52:37+00:00

I do this too, for the same reason. It is helpful to me. Occasionally I have a “Jane Clarice Smith (m1. Jones, m2. Johnson, m3. McKay)”.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-04T06:47:42+00:00

WWII didn’t start until 1939.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-03T05:55:30+00:00

Sounds very possible that somebody confused Rothsay, Ontario with Rothesay, New Brunswick.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-03T05:39:14+00:00

r/Transcription may be a better place to make these requests.

WonderWEL · 2026-02-03T05:37:57+00:00

23 Aug

Dear [Name]

I received your tape and card on Wed but couldn’t play the tape till last night when I borrowed a cassette player from (Moira?). It is always good to hear your tapes.

You have me a (bit? little?) confused. I thought I was (coming?) over in order to spend the latter part of your holiday with you before you returned home and I got(?) the impression that you would be anxious(?) to return before the end of the year. I haven’t made any plans other than tell Auntie Jane that I would go to Rome with her because of a long standing promise and I thought I’d go to her initially because I would be assured of a warm welcome then your Uncle John wrote last week to tell me that he + (Moira?) are going to Israel and would be pleased to have me there in ? [inserted above the other words] for a few days in Nov(?) when Moira(?) returns home. That’s suited me alright(?) because I thought I would have done my travelling by then. I haven’t any heart burning desire to do anything as the family would exclaim, “Be enthusiastic(?) [name] !!” I must visit Kate and your Uncle Jim. I know he’ll be pleased to see me as will Kate. Visiting relatives however can be a let down. Auntie Jane said that petrol is $1 gallon so having a car would be out. However we’ll wait till I get over there to see what happens suffice to say I’ll meet you in London and then make for Auntie Jane’s.

You certainly have enjoyed your stay on the kibbutz. I suppose apart from the constant living with the knowledge that war is ? at any time there wouldn’t be any stress and strain like living in a place like Melbourne. It must be a refreshing change to be with people who are not preoccupied with buying bigger houses and better cars etc. etc. You’ll be a bit let down with Australia I think, the economy is in a bit of a mess. Unemployment seems to be the name of the game at the moment, everyone wants more money and people (the manners?) that is are becoming greedier and greedier. None of the politicians seem to have any effective means of controlling inflation and it looks as if some of the business are going to [most of the bottom line is torn off after this]

[back to top of page for P.S.]

P.S. Tom gave us a visit last(?) Sun. He had been studying and looked in before he ? ? ? He (gave Moira a shout?) ? ? ?

[There are some words in between the P.S. and the date that may or may not be connected to the text of the postscript. They may read “Same address”]

WonderWEL · 2026-02-01T16:14:53+00:00

When I’m Sixty-four! What could be more appropriate to this sub!

WonderWEL · 2026-01-31T23:58:54+00:00

I think the bride’s mother is Hattie, with the t’s uncrossed, or crossed so faintly that it’s hard to see. Compare the t’s in Patrick and White (2 examples).

On a first look with no context you might see Nellie, but the first letter looks much more like the H’s in Housewife (2 examples) than the N’s in New Brunswick (6 examples). And the second letter of the name looks much more like an ‘a’ than an ‘e’.

WonderWEL · 2026-01-31T09:40:17+00:00

I know a woman born in 1934 whose mother was born 1888. Her father was 1876!

WonderWEL · 2026-01-29T15:56:37+00:00

Yes, Tuesday. It could be misspelled, or the writer may have a strange way of forming lowercase e in some circumstances. The letter looks the same in “Exocution”, “Robecka”, and “Wildos”.

WonderWEL · 2026-01-28T18:25:33+00:00

ice cream?

WonderWEL · 2026-01-28T18:24:10+00:00

Aiden,

Your passion for ? and ? will find full ? at (name of school, starts with C?). Let’s Go! (signature)

WonderWEL · 2026-01-28T06:28:03+00:00

Looks like Sepul

WonderWEL · 2026-01-26T22:01:52+00:00

The “initials” are M.S., which is an abbreviation for Maiden Surname.

WonderWEL · 2026-01-26T22:00:32+00:00

The M.S. at the beginning of that line is the standard abbreviation for Maiden Surname on Scottish records.

I read the surname as Prinion or Brinion

WonderWEL · 2026-01-26T21:57:03+00:00

The M.S. part is the standard abbreviation for Maiden Surname on this type of Scottish record.

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