Ann’s Signatures
We are somewhat fortunate in that Ann Rosser could write and we therefore have her signature at both of her marriages. We also have a Membership Ticket handed down in the family and dated December 1815. It is reproduced in full on the home page of this site.
In this first example we have her signature at her first marriage. We can safely assume that she did sign the register because her husband, Thomas, was unable to sign his name and that is recorded as such.
In the second marriage signing there is a remarkable similarity with her signature 30 years earlier at her first marriage.
Finally, we have a Membership Ticket from 1815. Because of the similarities with the marriage register signatures I think we can safely assume that Ann wrote her name on this Membership Ticket. Of interest is that she signed her first name with an “e” at its end on both marriage registers, but in this ticket she has reduced her forename to just “Ann”. But as the first letter of her maiden surname is the same as that of her second marriage we can clearly see that the “R” is formed in exactly the same way in the two places that it appears.
These three signatures provide compelling evidence that they are from the same hand.