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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Bromley Union Workhouse
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:44:16 +0000
In-Reply-To: <000201c3cd75$157717e0$e4fb883e@unknown>


In message <000201c3cd75$157717e0$>, Brian Ranson
<> writes
>
>I am hoping that someone can provide me with advice ref the following.
>Per the 1881 cencus, my GGGrandfather William Ranson (spelt Ransome) was
>recorded as being a 79 year old bricklayer pauper living in the Bromley Union
>Workhouse in Farnborough, Kent. I am trying to find a record of his death, to
>which end I have trawled the GRO index on a couple occasions and can find no
>entry for either Ranson, Ransom or Ransome 1881 to 1891 in the Bromley area. My
>questions are:
>
>a) Would there be some local written record of his entry into the workhouse and
>death in or transfer out?.
Normally the admission and discharge registers give exact dates, wheree
from, age, and method or reason for discharge - i.e. by death or by live
discharge to a job or whatever.
>b) What conditions governed an individuals discharge?. Was it solely the
>individuals decision or could he/she have been moved elsewhere without any
>discussion and/or agreement?.
In the ordinary way, once an individual had applied to go into the
workhouse (and had any assets sold up (not that most had any unless they
were coming in by reason of age and sickness)
An otherwise ablebodied man might come into the workhouse because he
had a temporary serious long illness or physical incapacity. If he
recovered, then he might find himself a job outside (or be found one) or
a relative might agree to take him on. In this case, the discharge
register would note 'working' or 'to brother J Brown' etc.
The other possibility, given his age, it a discharge to an asylum
(Alzheimer type problem) which could mean he was in adifferent
registration area at death.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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