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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Bromley Union Workhouse
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:18:19 +0000
In-Reply-To: <000301c3cf03$52265040$1fae4e51@unknown>


In message <000301c3cf03$52265040$>, Brian Ranson
<> writes
>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.
somewhere around there is a large asylum called Park Prewett - I don't
know quite when it was started, but long enough to have passed into the
consciousness of Hampshire people. so that - 'e'll be awf to Park
Prewett' was a local taunt, like 'fit fer Colney 'Atch' in Middlesex.
Incidentally, the local dressmaker in SW Hants was Miss Ransome, who
lived with her (even more) ancient mother in a tiny village south of the
New Forest. Mother must have been about the right vintage to be the
widow of a man born, say, 1850/60. She was definitely a lot older
looking than my grandmother (b 1872). The Ransomes brewed a fine drop of
country wine and respectable gentlemen were known to leave their cottage
distinctely under the influence.


--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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