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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 15:45 GMT (UK) »
The entry below Sarah's appears to read
PC 101 Lemon Street Police Station, found in ? Road

Is it vaguely possible that the number is in fact that of a Police Constable, and the address that of his Police Station?
Yes - I think that's very plausible; it looks like it's "PC" then a number, then either "H" or "HR", and sometimes a police station, identified by street name.

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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 15:50 GMT (UK) »
She has a second name on that death record. Not sure what it is. Bridges? Age on that possibly was 74.
Sarah Close, buried 17 April 1878, Manor Park Cemetery.

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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 15:55 GMT (UK) »
Whitechapel Union Infirmary Register of Deaths, April 1878
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSN1-PHS6?i=181&cat=1249964

That leads to another deciphering question - what (the heck) is that second name?

Cause of death I make "Sarns[SP?] effusion on the brain, accentuated by a fall"

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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 16:02 GMT (UK) »
She has a second name on that death record. Not sure what it is. Bridges? Age on that possibly was 74.
Sarah Close, buried 17 April 1878, Manor Park Cemetery.
Annoyingly, the initial capital 'R' is quite clear, and a good match for other capital 'R' elsewhere on the page.

(I used this: https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search-names.pl)

rudge 23414
ridge 18298
ridges 770
radge 356
redge 249
rodge 106
rodges 86
radges 24
redges 8
roudge 3
rydges 2
rudges 2
ruddge 2
rundge 1
roodge 1
riddge 1
raedge 1
rydge

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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 16:03 GMT (UK) »
Whitechapel Union Infirmary Register of Deaths, April 1878
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSN1-PHS6?i=181&cat=1249964

That leads to another deciphering question - what (the heck) is that second name?

Cause of death I make "Sarns[SP?] effusion on the brain, accentuated by a fall"

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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 16:05 GMT (UK) »
The Police Constable is 150H from Coml St (= Commercial Street). Metropolitan Police Division H is Stepney.

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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 16:07 GMT (UK) »
I see they are on familysearch but not going to spend ages and ages going from one page  to the next trying to see if I can find it...
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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 16:08 GMT (UK) »
She has a second name on that death record. Not sure what it is. Bridges? Age on that possibly was 74.
Sarah Close, buried 17 April 1878, Manor Park Cemetery.

I agree, the name is Bridges.

Look a bit further down the page to Barry, Catherine. The 'B' is almost exactly the same.
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Re: Reading and deciphering a workhouse record?
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 13 November 18 16:09 GMT (UK) »
I see they are on familysearch but not going to spend ages and ages going from one page  to the next trying to see if I can find it...

You don't need to go from page to page. It is on the link jonw65 posted.

The Police Constable is 150H from Coml St (= Commercial Street). Metropolitan Police Division H is Stepney.

I was really hoping Bookbox would turn up  :D
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