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Deciphering words with the letter A

Here we provide some examples of various handwriting styles which may help you to decipher some of the handwriting you may come across in your research. Here are examples of various styles of the letter A.





These are typical capital letter A’s

  

Here are some more capital A’s in a different style:

  

Seeing the letters on their own like this does not always give the best representation of them.

Here are some words beginning with the capital letter A.
Abberline Abraham
Albrecht Aldgate

Here are some more in the second style:
Albert Alfred
Annie Ann

Now for some words beginning with lower case letter a’s

These are all in the same style, and their sizes vary according to the writer:

Once again we will now show some words beginning with the lower case letter a:
account as
and at