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From: Ivy Sucee <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] St. Marylebone Workhouse
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:37:05 -0400
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If you contact Peter Higginbottam at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/homepage.html I think you may get help
there . He was so helpful when I was looking for my g.grandmother also in Marylebone
and the info he gave me was just what I needed . Good luck Ivy.

Janet Bettger wrote:

> I hope you can help me find where to go from here.
>
> Elizabeth Bettger and her three children were constantly in and out of St.
> Marylebone Workhouse from the 1850's. I have looked up admission and
> discharges at the LMA and found Elizabeth Bettger still an inmate in the
> 1861 census but without the children, Alfred b. 1847, Henry b. 1854 and
> Elizabeth Fanny b. 1851.
>
> In 1855 she was classed as Paralized and destitute and receiving weekly
> relief, to remain for 2 weeks the putative father being ill (Joseph Slack).
> She lived until 1878 and died at Haverstock Hill with her family, her
> occupation always classed as needlewoman. She never married Joseph Slack
> and we have very little information on him.
>
> I have looked for apprenticeship records and/or school records at the LMA
> without luck. Am I right in thinking that the St. Marylebone School Hayes,
> Middx is the school they might have gone to. Would I find any records of
> their admission and discharge anywhere? If not that school any ideas on
> where they might have gone? The two boys both were well educated one a
> contractor's clerk and then company secretary and the other a commercial
> traveller.
>
> Any tips would be helpful from you.
>
> Janet Bettger
>
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