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From: "rossbret" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Pontypridd Workhouse
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 00:07:40 -0000
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Hello Alwyn ap Huw,
Welcome to the List:-)
This list is for any research connected with Workhouses and Hospitals
including inmates, staff and Asylums, so long as it relates to the Genealogy
or History aspects etc etc .....
Now to refer to your question:
Do you have an approximate age for Thomas Bitten?
I ask because there is a Thomas Beaton in the 1881 census, "Walsall & West
Bromwich Distr Schl Wigmore" with siblings (although all born in
Wednesbury - so it states!!)
Thomas BEATON 14 M Wednesbury
Occ: Scholar
Rosannah BEATON 9 F Wednesbury
Occ: Scholar
Edward BEATON 11 M Wednesbury
Occ: Scholar
Alice Jan. BEATON 5 F Wednesbury
Occ: Scholar

Wigmore School was The District School run by the Walsall and West Bromwich
Board of Guardians, where all Child Inmates were sent rather than staying in
the Workhouse.

There are a number of other Bitten entries, let me know if you'd like them.

As to the records:
Staff Registers 1863 to 1921 are held at Kew under MH 9/13. I'm sure that
Mary knows more about the Kew records .........

All the best, Jan
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Subject: [UK-W&H] Pontypridd Workhouse


> I understand that this list is mainly for those who are descended from
> inmates of workhouses, I hope that a kind lister can help me with a query
> about one of the "enemy" a member of the Workhouse staff!
> My g.g.grandfather was, apparently, either the master or the assistant
master
> of Pontypridd workhouse at about the turn of the last century. His name
was
> Thomas Bitten husband of Esther Bitten and father of Sarah Ann, Thomas and
> others.
> It is thought that he may have hailed from Minsterly in Salop and may have
> been employed at a Workhouse in that area prior to moving to S. Wales.
> I have been trying to trace him for the past 20 years, without success.
> My mother thinks that the story about him being employed at the workhouse
may
> be a "cover" invented by my great uncle (who told me the story) to hide
the
> embarrassment of his grandfather having been an inmate!
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Alwyn ap Huw Humphreys ()


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