Well, this is the last push on these signatures in Polly Barnard’s Birthday Book c. 1888 and onwards.

A quick recap, Polly lived in the Broadway enclave (Gloucestershire) of fashionable artists of the time – John Singer Sargent, Frank Davis Millet, Alfred Parsons, the Alma-Tademas, Paul César Helleu.  Also included were many caricaturists and portrait painters as well as their models. Polly’s father, Fred Barnard, was an illustrator for Dickens.  They also lived in Hampstead, London.

So the names Polly diligently collected in her Birthday Book (given to her on 14th birthday)  are an insight into her world.

I very much want to research the book as much as possible but I’m having problems with these last few signatures.  Your research last time was invaluable and achieved a great deal but I need more help, please.

G. H. or G. K. Fullwood / Tallwood / Tullwood
(I think it is ****wood)

This one…. I am stumped.  I know the firs tword is Alfred but is that Jr at the end?  Look at the capital A for Alfred.  If the surname begins with A, it doesn’t match.  Elfraby?

Back again.  Marie, Maris, a really badly written Mary?

The initials.  Are the M. Wedgwood?  John Singer Sargent painted “Mrs Robert Wedgwood and Mary (Halsey) Wedgwood was born in 1827 and married to Robert Wedgwood.  That would work.

This is a difficult one too.  Margaret H. Derrell, Serrell.  What is the capital letter of her surname?

Now, considering this gentleman’s handwriting is so precise, what are his initials?  V. C. ? I can find no record of a V. C. Miles.

I am stuck on Sadie‘s surname.  HELP! Watere / Natere / Matere

Another Wedgwood.  Looks like a P. N. but there are not P. N. Wedgwood’s that I can find.

These are the children of Mary Wedgwood. Husband Robert was dead by 1888.

Anyway, if anyone has any ideas.  Please help.  I am desparate here.

In other news, everyone is doing fine in their rugs or not, etc. The weather remains vile, which is why I am concentrating on transcribing and researching the Birthday Book. It has been fascinating and very worthwhile.