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From: "Pat Hase" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-SOMERSET] Inmate
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:08:05 +0100
References: <BAY117-F26C3FEE4A2A1BD8C1EC08ED3330@phx.gbl>


Technically the Poor House at Winford should have been closed when the Union
Workhouse was opened at Long Ashton (the Bedminster Workhouse) in 1836. As
Death certificates didn't start until 1837 there shouldn't have been one
when this death certificate was issued. Not all parishes sold off their poor
houses immediately but it all depends on the date of the certificate.

Pat


----- Original Message -----
From: "helen taylor" <>
To: <>; <>;
<>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ENG-SOMERSET] Inmate


> Hi Nancy
>
> There appears to be a workhouse at Winford
> Up to 1834
> A parliamentary report of 1777 recorded parish workhouses in operation at
> Bedminster (for up to 60 inmates) and Winford (14 inmates).
>
>
> Then Bedminster union workhouse was responsible for these parishes
>
> Bedminster Poor Law Union and Workhouse
>
> The Bedminster Union Workhouse was erected 1837 in Long Ashton, Somerset,
> by
> G. Gilbert Scott and W. Bonython Moffatt, architects.
>
> The Bedminster Union (renamed Long Ashton Union in 1899) comprised the
> Parishes of Backwell, Barrow Gurney, Bedminster, Brockley, Chelvey,
> Clapton,
> Clevedon, Dundry, Easton-in-Gordano, Flax Bourton, Kenn, Kingston Seymour,
> Abbots Leigh, Long Ashton, Nailsea, Portbury, Portishead, Tickenham,
> Walton-in-Gordano, Weston-in-Gordano, Winford, Wraxall and Yatton.
>
> Id guess the inmate was a pauper otherwise it would state convict ,
> prisoner or likewise
>
> Helen
>
>
>
>>From: "Nancy McAdie" <>
>>Reply-To:
>>To: ,
>>Subject: [ENG-SOMERSET] Inmate
>>Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:21:34 +1000
>>
>>Hi,
>>I have just received a death certificate where informant details are as
>>follows:
>>Signature: Mark of (persons Name), Description: Inmate, Residence:
>>Winford.
>>
>>My question is Inmate of what??? - Prison or some other institution -
>>would
>>have been abt 15yrs.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Nancy
>>
>>
>>
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