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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: graemelove on Tuesday 23 August 22 20:21 BST (UK)
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Hi
Does anyone with local Musselburgh knowledge recognise this name - 9 (something) Square? I found something which suggests it might be Millkill, but just looking to see if anyone can confirm.
Thanks
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You give no indication of the date or what kind of record snippet this is. Would you be able to find it on a census record using what I assume is the name attached to the record.
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It's a 1902 death record. I don't have a subscription with any site just now. These are records I got from Scotland's People which I'm just now getting round to looking at.
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More likely Mill Hill Square rather than 'kill.
What is the name of your relative that died there in 1902?
Monica
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For example, found this:
Rahno Aitken Milne, b. 11 Jul 1906, at 9 Mill Hill Square, Musselburgh
https://orwin.info/getperson.php?personID=I8927&tree=All3
Monica
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There are certainly still various Millhill addresses in Musselburgh on modern maps.
Add e,g,
https://geographic.org/streetview/view.php?place=Millhill,%20Musselburgh,%20Scotland
add2 - close to Lorretto public school
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1901 shows as James MacDonald, retired baker, with his family at 9 Mill Hill Square.
Monica
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Thank you. I agree Millhill seems more likely. The reason I thought Millkill is because it is mentioned in this document which I found after a quick Google - https://archive.org/stream/edinburghcounty187071dir/edinburghcounty187071dir_djvu.txt.
MonicaL - My relative's name was Georgina McDonald nee McIntosh and James McDonald was indeed her husband, who was a baker.
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I would not be relying on the spelling in the document you have linked to as this as been 'translated' using an optical character (OCR) by the looks. This scans and reads and needs human interpretation much of the time.
If you are searching in Australia there is a wonderful resource there called Trove - OCR of the newspapers and these have to be read by humans to make sense of what the machine has seen.
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MonicaL - My relative's name was Georgina McDonald nee McIntosh and James McDonald was indeed her husband, who was a baker.
In that case, their 1901 census entry is at the same address that Georgina died at the following year:
James Macdonald 70 retired baker
Georgina Mcdonald 58
Gardiner Mcdonald 30
Georgina Mcdonald 33
Annie Mcdonald 27
Maggie Mcdonald 24
Alice Northfield 22 boarder
Georgina Mcdonald 11 months grandchild
Address: 9 Millhill Sq, Musselburgh
Monica
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Hi shanreagh
This clip attached is from the official image of Georgina MacDonald's death reg, available to download from the site for all Scottish BMDs www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
The addressess from the BMDs are not transcribed and are on the image of the registration on the registers. If there are problems with legibility, SP will often rescan to aim to improve the image.
Monica
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Hi shanreagh
This clip attached is from the official image of Georgina MacDonald's death reg, available to download from the site for all Scottish BMDs www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
The addressess from the BMDs are not transcribed and are on the image of the registration on the registers. If there are problems with legibility, SP will often rescan to aim to improve the image.
Monica
You have misunderstood. I was commenting on the reliance on information from this source (below) This has Mill Kill and not Mill Hill as it has been read by OCR.
https://archive.org/stream/edinburghcounty187071dir/edinburghcounty187071dir_djvu.txt.
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Sorry :P Thought you meant the clip from SP.
You are absolutely right about the link from archive.org. It is an amazing resource but the
OCR used is often not great :-\
Monica