Deciphering help required please!.....

garibaldired · Post by **garibaldired** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:24 pm

Hi all,

Perhaps someone can please help me decipher the name of the Edinburgh hospital and the address of the informant on this (Margaret Harper's) death certifcate? Also what do you think the mother's maiden name is?

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-413

Meg

PS I give up on the cause of death completely!

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:58 pm

Hi Meg,

The hospital is the Longmore Hospital, in the Newington Distict of Edinburgh.

Mother's maiden surname - Dodds (?)

Cause of death - mailgnant disease of bladder, -- (illegible) --, myocardial degeneration.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

Post by **joette** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:03 pm

Looks like Rheumatoid Arthritis along with the Bladder Malignancy & the Myocardail degeneration.
Dodds on the maiden name.

JimM · Post by **JimM** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:30 pm

Looks Like

k

Helen Downie
Intimate friend
5 Downfield place
Edinburgh

Jim

garibaldired · Post by **garibaldired** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:10 pm

Thanks very much Andrew, Joette and Jim. I knew I could rely on you all!

I'm intrigued by the "intimate friend"; I thought she was her niece!

Meg

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:42 pm

garibaldired wrote:Thanks very much Andrew, Joette and Jim. I knew I could rely on you all!

I'm intrigued by the "intimate friend"; I thought she was her niece!

Meg

Maybe both.

And, in modern day terms, read "intimate" as "close"

David