Census Help again! Cant read a name, u dont have to be a member to see it this time!?

Question

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I cant make out what it says, can anyone help me

Answer 1

Definitely looks like Spencer Street.

Answer 2

Looks like Spencer to me. In my own search for past relations I spent 12 months looking for a place called Wacley, this was the typed name from the transcriber, it turned out to be Warley.Now managed to get back another generation.

Answer 3

Looks like Spencer to me. Its the long tail on the p and the tops of the e,c and r all looking the same, make it difficult to read. Definitely Spencer

Answer 4

It is Spencer and the initial is, I think "D"

but if you scan down the page you might be able to identify it against another name, but the surname is definitely Spencer.

No doubt about it, 30 years of reading old handwritten documents !!

Answer 5

looks like Spencer to me.

Answer 6

Spencer!

The writer has done the down stroke of the "p" and then the rest of the letter but he has not fully joined the two. This may well have been because he was writing this at the door of the house!

The enumerator would have a board with the sheets on, a nibbed pen (not a fountain pen) and a little pot of ink clipped to his coat or the board which he would dip his pen into!!

That is why sometimes the writing is so hard to read!

This type of "p", with an open bottom part of the "o" section is normal for handwritten "UK" English. This enables the "p" to be quickly joined to the next letter, in this case the "e".

Answer 7

Also looks like Spencer to me also.

Looking close up  The first letter could be a stylised S, The line on the second letter drops below the other letters, looks most like a P, the other letters aren't too clear but look/fit as being e or c

the 3rd and 6th letters look very similar in style, the 5th is slightly different, so could be a c

Answer 8

Looks like Spencer Street to me as well.

Answer 9

You need to post the entire page. The best way to decide what it says is to compare it to how the same letters are written elsewhere on the page.

I can see very well how it could be Spencer, first initial T. But I wouldn't bet on it without being able to study other examples of this person's writing.

Answer 10

I agree with Lisa, it's much easier if you can see the whole page, then you can compare how he wrote 'S' for Spencer to how he wrote 'S' for Smith for example.

If it is a street name rather than a person's name there is a good chance it will be repeated on the census pages before and after.

Answer 11

Spencer

Answer 12

Could be Chaucer or Fletcher.  These people should have realised they were writing information for posterity!!!!

Edit.

No, no, I was wrong,  fairly sure it is Spencer.

Answer 13

It looks like Spencer to me - we had to learn Copper Plate writing when I was a kid at school in the 40's and it can't be an F because that is the old T with a stroke through it.

Answer 14

It looks like Spencer to me, too. The "Sp" looks like a big number 4, and smaller 2, and then you can plainly see the "encer." Which census was it on and the name you are looking for? Maybe if I had the full original view to see, it would help better.