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Chris Scott
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Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 1:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I am currently transcribing some articles from the Morning Advertiser (October 1st 1888) and have seen two references in there to Stride being being identified as one "Annie Morris". I don't remember seeing this mistaken identification before
Chris


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Chris Scott
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This section from a later articel of the same day identifies the source of the Morris identification:
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Donald Souden
Chief Inspector
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Registered: 10-2003
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Chris,

She is mentioned in the A to Z. It cites a story in the Yorkshire Post and the story is much the same as the one you have posted.

Don.
"He was so bad at foreign languages he needed subtitles to watch Marcel Marceau."
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Chris Scott
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Just seen that in a-z
DOH!

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