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From: "Maureen Rawson" <>
Subject: Re: [EoLFHS] Informant on death certificate
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:51:14 -0500
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Hi Bev

Thanks for your response. That's possible, because she died of pneumonia.
Maureen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bev Pease" <>
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Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [EoLFHS] Informant on death certificate


> Most workhouses had infirmaries attached, so she could have been there
for
> treatment.
>
> Bev Pease
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From:
> Date: 20 June 2003 23:01:39
> To:
> Subject: [EoLFHS] Informant on death certificate
>
> Hi
>
> I have a death certificate for Sarah FINCH, widow of James farmer of
> Wennington, who died 29 Oct 1842 at Hornchurch aged 73.
> The informant is James GLYNN inmate, Hornchurch.
>
> Sarah's daughter Sarah married John Glynn, a farmer of Hornchurch who
died
> in 1848. Sarah Glynn died in 1883. They had a son James born at Rainham
> about 1828. That means he was about 14 in 1842.
>
> Is it likely that her 14 year old grandson was the informant at her
death?
> Why would he be described as an inmate? Was there a workhouse in
> Hornchurch then? I could understand Sarah being in a workhouse though her
> husband's will seems to leave her well provided for. But why would her
> grandson be there? Maybe it is some other relative of her son in law.
>
> Any ideas?
> Is anyone else researching these names?
> I have been unable to find the baptism of James and Sarah's daughter
Maria
> about 1790. She married James YOUNG at Wennington in 1811, then lived at
> Rainham and had died by 1836 (no burial found).
>
> Maureen Rawson
> Email:
>
> Web Site on genealogy sources for Kent, England:
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/
>
>
>
> .
>


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