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Is anybody any good at reading the handwriting on old death certificates? What does this say?

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EightMonthsScared · 07/09/2023 22:14

The first word is obvious but we are stumped by the next two words?

What do we think MN? 🤔

It was 1901 if this helps your thinking?

Is anybody any good at reading the handwriting on old death certificates? What does this say?
OP posts:
alexdgr8 · 09/09/2023 01:04

agree, it's
Elswick.

caringcarer · 09/09/2023 01:30

LemonLimeDivine · 07/09/2023 22:18

Labourer electrical work

This

Random789 · 09/09/2023 07:50

TurquoiseThings · 09/09/2023 00:48

For anyone not so familiar with cursive, this might help. I've traced over each letter in a different colour. You might have to zoom in to see properly.

This is really helpful. But there still seems to me to be more going on in the region of what you have desginated 'w'. It is difficult because of the vertical crease, but it looks to me that the 'w' ends on that crease and then there is another letter at the point that you have made the final part of the 'w'.
You are probs right tho.
I stared at this bloody thing in bed last night. Amazing how good the human brain is at finding something UTTERLY EFFING UNIMPORTANT to fret about in preference to dealing with life.

pilates · 09/09/2023 08:30

Labourer
The second word there is a letter before the ‘e’ so can’t be electrical.

NannyR · 09/09/2023 08:34

pilates · 09/09/2023 08:30

Labourer
The second word there is a letter before the ‘e’ so can’t be electrical.

It's a capital E, TurquoiseThings post illustrates this really well.

TurquoiseThings · 09/09/2023 09:29

"@Random789 But there still seems to me to be more going on in the region of what you have desginated 'w'. It is difficult because of the vertical crease, but it looks to me that the 'w' ends on that crease and then there is another letter at the point that you have made the final part of the 'w'."

It's just the crease. I've looked at hundreds and hundreds of documents just like this and can write in cursive too. If anything I've drawn the 'joining tail' of the 'i' too high because it doesn't actually join to the 'c' and I've made it look like it does Blush

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