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From: "Julle Wilson" <>
Subject: Re: Hospital Endell street Holburn
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 10:09:14 -0700


thankyou Eve
Cheers
Julie
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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
To: Julle Wilson <>
Cc: <>
Date: Monday, 24 May 1999 12:41
Subject: Re: Hospital Endell street Holburn

>In message <01bea5ac$43d14a20$>, Julle Wilson
><> writes
>>Hi,
>>Would any one know what the name of this hospital ? As my GGGGrandfather
was
>>Born and Christened here in 1803 Lying in hospital Endell Street Holburn.
>
> It was actually called the Lying In Hospital. Most people had babies
>at home, but if the mopther was travelling, or staying at a lodging
>house or inn with unsuitable facilities, then she might get a nomination
>from a patron to use the Lying In Hospital. The patrons were the
>benevolent ladies and gentlemen who funded it with their contributuions,
>so had the right to say who could use it.
> This Hospital was specifically for respectable persons, meaning
>married, not paupers, not those rich enough to hire a whole house,
>usually people like artisans temporarily working in London (plasterers,
>bricklayers, carpenters, engineers, mobile merchants, naval and military
>families, coachmen etc etc.
> The registers are at the Public Record Office. There is a transcript,
>I think, at the London Metropolitan Archives and probably the Soc of
>Genealogists.
>
>Eve McLaughlin
>
>Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
>Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
>

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