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Agree . . .
I'd say it's either a variation of Sybilla, or a mis-transcription of Sybilla (a handwritten cursive 'y' would look like a 'u' if the tail were cut off).
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Yes, or in the case of Germans, the y makes the same sound as a u with an umlaut over it - so maybe it was an u-umlaut that was transcribed onto the document without the umlaut.
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Yes...That would make a lot of sense, especially for the 1800s.
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