11.8 William Moorhouse Stoney b1776: Signatures?

The possible timeline of my 4xgreat grandfather’s journey from Kettlewell, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, via a Grocery business in Leeds, to bankruptcy, debtors’ prison and conviction for fraud in London and the start of a commercial traveller/credit drapery dynasty makes interesting although not altogether fully-evidenced reading. As an addition, I’ve shown here his signature as it appears on various documents over time, which may reinforce (or reject) what evidence there is for that journey being of one man, rather than two or more conflated individuals.

Name	Record	Date	Signature
William Stoney	Marriage bond (Mary Eyre), Leeds	1 Nov 1800	.
William Stoney	Parish marriage record (Mary Eyre, Leeds)	31 May 1801	May be written by clerk for Bishop’s Transcript
William Moorhouse Stoney	Parish marriage record (Mary Ann Rowney)	26 Dec 1825	.

 There are similarities particularly between the earliest signature in 1800, and the last, in 1825. But also differences. So who knows?