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    From Jenny M Benson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 28 19:10:56 2021
    In the Burial Register for St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, circa 1830,
    several of the entries have W.K.H. written in the Abode column,
    sometimes just the initials, sometimes preceded by a street name and on
    at least one occasion by "Middlesex Hospital."

    Can anyone tell me what W.K.H. stands for in this context?

    --
    Jenny M Benson
    Wrexham, UK

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  • From Ian Goddard@21:1/5 to Jenny M Benson on Sun Mar 28 23:58:02 2021
    On 28/03/2021 19:10, Jenny M Benson wrote:
    In the Burial Register for St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, circa 1830, several of the entries have W.K.H. written in the Abode column,
    sometimes just the initials, sometimes preceded by a street name and on
    at least one occasion by "Middlesex Hospital."

    Can anyone tell me what W.K.H. stands for in this context?


    Workhouse?

    Ian

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  • From Charles Ellson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 28 23:29:57 2021
    On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:10:56 +0100, Jenny M Benson
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    In the Burial Register for St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, circa 1830, >several of the entries have W.K.H. written in the Abode column,
    sometimes just the initials, sometimes preceded by a street name and on
    at least one occasion by "Middlesex Hospital."

    Can anyone tell me what W.K.H. stands for in this context?

    Have you got some of the street names?

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  • From J. P. Gilliver (John)@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 29 01:10:37 2021
    On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 23:58:02, Ian Goddard <[email protected]>
    wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
    On 28/03/2021 19:10, Jenny M Benson wrote:
    In the Burial Register for St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, circa
    1830, several of the entries have W.K.H. written in the Abode column, >>sometimes just the initials, sometimes preceded by a street name and
    on at least one occasion by "Middlesex Hospital."
    Can anyone tell me what W.K.H. stands for in this context?


    Workhouse?

    Ian

    Sounds plausible. Does the writing say WKH or W.K.H. as you say? Before
    - oh, I'd say about the mid-20th century, possibly later - people were
    more careful with their dots than they became later. (Nowadays, they
    hardly ever appear at all.)
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Norman Tebbitt has the irritating quality of being much nicer in person than
    he is in print. - Clive Anderson, RT 1996/10/12-18

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  • From Jenny M Benson@21:1/5 to Ian Goddard on Mon Mar 29 10:41:06 2021
    On 28/03/2021 23:58, Ian Goddard wrote:
    On 28/03/2021 19:10, Jenny M Benson wrote:
    In the Burial Register for St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, circa
    1830, several of the entries have W.K.H. written in the Abode column,
    sometimes just the initials, sometimes preceded by a street name and
    on at least one occasion by "Middlesex Hospital."

    Can anyone tell me what W.K.H. stands for in this context?


    Workhouse?

    That was my first thought, but then I thought it was quite definitely
    written as 3 separate capital letters, not anything like Wk H. However,
    I have now looked at another page in the Register (written in a
    different hand) and there it is certainly Wk H or Wk:H so I am now
    satisfied that it does indicate WorkHouse. Presumably, where there is
    an additional address it indicates that the person had been resident in
    their own home shortly before dying in the Workhouse (Infirmary?) or, in
    the case of the Middlesex Hospital one, had been living at the Workhouse
    before being admitted to the Hospital where he died.

    --
    Jenny M Benson
    Wrexham, UK

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