From: NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   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.   
      
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   Jenny M Benson   
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