Mark on a marriage entry

Hi, i've been doing some research and come across a strange marking on a few
records. it is basically an "X" with a dot in all four angles i.e. north
south east and west. Is this a common mark or can anyone tell me if it means
anything. Also been trying to understand a document extraction in which the

Koromo...

In the way we use an asterisk in a body of text to show that there is
additional margin or footnotes, I have seen the X-with-dots used the
same way in older documents.

Cheers
K.

houseowner (Viscount) signed/witnessed a birth certificate of an
illegitimate child. Would this mean that the Viscount was the mother or just
signing for an illiterate servant. Any info on the above would be greatly
appreciated

Mike Williams...

The formal name for that symbol is "text reference mark".

My newsreader doesn't post in HTML format, but this set of characters
would become a text reference symbol if it did.
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When I was doing maths at university, we used that symbol to represent
"contradiction", but a quick web-search shows that most mathematicians use
other symbols.

richard.grimes...

I am interested, too, in the meaning of this symbol. My grandfather was
in a civillian internment camp in China during the Japanese occupation
and in his notebook there is a list of 22 people (who I have confirmed
were also in the camp) and 11 of them have this symbol against their
names. (There are also 11 ticks, there's no connection between the
ticks and X symbol, because some have both, some have one or the other,
and some have neither.) Clearly this symbol means something, but what?

Geoff...

I've seen such in church baptismal records and vertically in the page's
margin was a correction. Perchance there's a correction you have not come
across.

Anne Chambers...

Viscounts are usually male - or do you mean the surname is VISCOUNT ?