What is the day of birth?

Ken_Cluff

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This is from a birth registry in Sierra Leone. The days are written out like "Twenty five" for the 25th of the month. What does "siscoh" represent?

My research indicates Kreo, is the defacto language of Sierra Leone. I'm assuming "Kreo" is a derivative of the English word "Creole." An online search shows many "Kreo" words are heavily accented English. For example "tenki" is "thank you." It's like pidgin English.

Regardless, the best guess I can make is "siscoh September 1902" is rendered in English as "six of September, 1902." Hence it would be registered as 6 for the day.

genthusiast

Looks like your interpretation is correct - but it appears the scribe wrote 'sixth' - with x being backward c and forward c touching and without t crossed.

Melissa S Himes

I see the word Sixth there. The scribe makes the old-fashioned "x" and the t is the same at the "t" in Lucetta.

Colin Yamamoto_1

I agree with the comments above, its the scribes unique style of writing in this case. Good eye for catching the right meaning from it!