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From: "Brian Ranson" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Bromley Union Workhouse
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:07:24 -0000
References: <3ChL2VAA9Y8$EwDo@varneys.demon.co.uk>


Dear Eve.

Very many thanks for taking the time to respond. Your advice is really very
helpful. I've unfortunately misplaced the record but during my search I
recall noting a William Ransome of round about the right age dying in, I
think, Petersfield, Hants. I dismissed this entry because I knew that there
were no relatives in that part of the country and I could think of no good
reason for an 80 plus year old man moving such a distance away from his 1881
location of Bromley. I had not thought of the possibility of a move to an
asylum which could also explain why he is recorded as Ransome and not
Ranson. Maybe someone wrote down what they thought was the correct spelling
of his name because he was not able to give this info himself. Guess I'll
just have to find this entry again and risk another £7.
Thanks again.

Brian.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eve McLaughlin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Bromley Union Workhouse


> 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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