Form An Orderly 'q'.....

[Guest compost]

An F Quarmby rode in Junior races at Wombwell Sports Stadium in 1929 and a Jack Quarmby rode in junior races at Barnsley Lundwood also in 1929 (can't see that they would be the same person but a real coincidence having the same, unusual, surname). Note : Jack might be the 'Jim' that arnieg listed as riding at Barnsley in 1930.

 

The Audenshaw 1929 researcher file says C Quirk rode in the first meeting of that season.

Edited November 29, 2016 by compost

[steve roberts]

Hmm, well reminded by the very helpful replies (thanx!) that I certainly did see the aforementioned Jimmy Squibb, Colin Farquharson & Hasse Holmqvist ride - I 'searched' again [not sure what I did wrong the first time!) and found them obviously, plus the following:

Christer Lofqvist (who is of course a blindingly obvious one!) plus from recent touring parties the rather more obscure John Marquez and Robin Bergqvist; and totally obscure indeed a second halfer from Crayford in '76 called implausibly, Stuart Farquar..

 

It's not exactly hundreds though is it! And certainly none beginning with 'Q'...!

Bizarrely some scribes insisted on Holmqvist being spelt Holmkvist! I never went with that version personally.

[The White Knight]

Bizarrely some scribes insisted on Holmqvist being spelt Holmkvist! I never went with that version personally.

Personally I believe that you were right not to.

[steve roberts]

Personally I believe that you were right not to.

I even saw Lofqvist as Lofkvist once! Very weird...perhaps something lost in the translation?

[BL65]

In the Swedish language the letter 'Q' is now rare. I understand it was common in ordinary words up until the late 19th century, when it was replaced by 'K'. The exception was that many proper names kept their 'Q' despite the change made to common words. I remember looking into this in the 1960s when Wolverhampton's Hasse Holmqvist and Cradley Heath's Tommy Bergqvist were occasionally spelt with K instead of Q. Unless a proper name was chosen to be changed from Q to K it should be spelt with the Q, so Holmqvist, Bergqvist and Lofqvist would be correct. There were also some occasions on which programmes, magazines and newspapers replaced the V with a U, but that's another story.

[steve roberts]

In the Swedish language the letter 'Q' is now rare. I understand it was common in ordinary words up until the late 19th century, when it was replaced by 'K'. The exception was that many proper names kept their 'Q' despite the change made to common words. I remember looking into this in the 1960s when Wolverhampton's Hasse Holmqvist and Cradley Heath's Tommy Bergqvist were occasionally spelt with K instead of Q. Unless a proper name was chosen to be changed from Q to K it should be spelt with the Q, so Holmqvist, Bergqvist and Lofqvist would be correct. There were also some occasions on which programmes, magazines and newspapers replaced the V with a U, but that's another story.

Many thanks for that! Was always a mystery to me!

[The White Knight]

I even saw Lofqvist as Lofkvist once! Very weird...perhaps something lost in the translation?

I must admit I never ever saw that. I did see the Holmqvist with a 'k' a couple of times though.

 

Thank you BL65 for your explanation - much appreciated. I thought that the 'k' was a typo to be honest.