On these early records, the church warden recorded all these, so the handwriting is his...same with old land records, the court clerk was writing a copy into the court books, a copy of the original which I guess folks kept in those days...so the signature you see is just a copy of those that attended the wedding and not really their signatures, but in the hand of the church warden...probably the same with the certificate i.e. this is just the church record and the couple probably kept the original... Char ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 6:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JOBE] Job / Jobe Family Records These are great !!.....I just love these old handwritten documents. I think that my Thomas Jobe (b 1710-1720) might have signed as a Witness for a couple of the weddings...the 11 Jan 1731 wedding of Joshua Job and Margaret McKay and the 6 Mar 1732 wedding of Enoch Job and Abigail Gatchell. Both signatures appear to be written by the same person and it was before his own 1740 wedding to Mary ?? What do you think ? malinda jones > Happy Holidays, > > > > I would like to invite all of you to view a brand new website that has > just > > launched today! It is called Job / Jobe Family Records <A > > HREF="http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293282419">Job / Jobe Family > Records</A> > > website address http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293282419. > > > > This site consists of scanned copies of actual documents for the Job, Jobe > > Family and related families. Some surnames that you will find here are:<br clear=all><hr>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <a href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>