Author Topic: Musselburgh East Lothian, Decipher address please  (Read 477 times)

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Musselburgh East Lothian, Decipher address please
« on: Sunday 05 August 18 13:39 BST (UK) »
Hello,

Can anyone please tell me the address on this document.

I can see Sea Mill Cottage, but not the rest of it.

the document is a death certificate created in The District of Inveresk & Musselburgh in 1867.

It might well just say 'Musselburgh' but the first s looks like an 'f', and I thought people were not still using 'f's' & 's's' interchangibly by this time?

Thanks,

Lindsey

Thanks very much,

Lindsey


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Re: Musselburgh East Lothian, Decipher address please
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 05 August 18 13:45 BST (UK) »
I think it is Musselburgh     The name Russell in my own tree sometimes has the same issue

Kay

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Re: Musselburgh East Lothian, Decipher address please
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 05 August 18 13:55 BST (UK) »
The f is a long s. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

Printers stopped using it long before handwritten ones.

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Re: Musselburgh East Lothian, Decipher address please
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 05 August 18 15:17 BST (UK) »
Thank you both for clarifying, Gadget & Kay99.

Lindsey