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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Deirdre784 on Thursday 11 January 18 19:35 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone make out the place of death in the attached clip please? Seems to finish with '... house'. I've included a few bits of the certificate to give ideas of some of the letters.....
Thanks
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It looks like "out of the house" but maybe "Nanty"
Is there an address for the informant that might be the same/similar?
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would it be ......storehouse
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Looks like store or stone house, first word could be out?
Jennifer
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Thanks Millipede, should have included that...... informant - believe it was a son but trying to confirm as not my husband’s direct line - was from George Town, Merthyr, and it’s not that. Could cholera as the cause of death have anything to do with it (but he was present at the death).
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I thought it looked like Pont y Storehouse, and I've found a reference to that here:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lb8/
(It's in Google Books, and a Google search may well produce the same result.)
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Thanks Arthur, that looks really good. I will have a look for the book too as several generations of the family worked in the ironworks in Merthyr.
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Georgetown appears to be very close to ‘Pont y Storehouse’. Found another article on the alangeorge website, and wikipedia (Merthyr Tydfil).
Added: The family was a few miles away in the 1841 census and Thomas and his sons were working, so don’t know if they fell on hard times and had to move. Pont y Storehouse was known as China and was a slum area, open sewers etc, where cholera and typhoid were rife.
Thanks all.
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Hard to believe now, but Thomas was one of 539 deaths from cholera in July 1839 in the Merthyr district :-[