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Berkshire / Re: St . Giles , Reading
« on: Today at 08:43 »
Enquire via the church website:
www.sgilesreading.org.uk
(not a typo, 't' is omitted)

Or try the county archives:
www.royalberkshirearchives.org.uk

Good luck,
Carol

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Oxfordshire / Re: Littlemore Lunatic Assylum
« on: Yesterday at 20:43 »
Hello Deb, and welcome to RootsChat  :)

In 1994 some of the Littlemore Hospital records were transcribed, and I have an ancient copy of the CD issued by the Oxfordshire Family History Society.  Here's all that I found about Rebecca.

22 May 1854 Admitted to Littlemore, patient no. 1002. (n.b. this might not be her first admission as new numbers were issued on re-admission)

6 Jan 1864 Transferred (with many others) to Worcester County Asylum at Powick.  (This was common practice when hospitals were overcrowded)

4 Mar 1896 Buried at Littlemore Hospital, age 88, last abode Bicester.

Sadly that's all I could piece together from the CD.  Details of patient deaths were transcribed up to 1893 only, presumably because of the 100-year rule, although all of the burials were included.  Also none of the admission registers were transcribed at all, so we don't know when she returned from Powick.

Do you have her death certificate which would show her cause of death?  Did you know that her hospital records should be available from the Oxfordshire Health Archives?  I obtained a copy of my g-grandfather's Littlemore records years ago for a modest copying fee - well worth it.

Must stop now as it's stupidly late (early!) here.

Carol

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The Common Room / Re: Possible registration district changes
« on: Tuesday 03 January 23 10:15 GMT (UK)  »
A death is registered in the district where it occurs, regardless of the person's home address.

It's entirely possible that your family members were patients in a hospital away from home, or they could have died in accidents while on holiday.  You will find the exact place of death on the death certificate along with the usual home address (if different).

(In my own family, I couldn't find my great-great-grandfather's death registration.  He'd lived all his life in Oxfordshire, but the only possible death record was in London so I took a punt on it.  The cert confirmed that he died at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington while staying nearby with his recently widowed son-in-law.)

Carol

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England / Re: Property ownership, address and numbering (England)
« on: Saturday 30 July 22 22:05 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Jebber, I intended to mention that these entries are from Oxford where the practice of consecutive numbering was (is) widespread.

The road I grew up in starts with 1,2,3 etc., we were nearly halfway at 31, then up to 70ish at the end.  Thence across the road, and back along the other side.  100 is opposite 31 and the final number (130+) is opposite 1.  Made life easier for the postie  :D

Carol

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England / Re: Property ownership, address and numbering (England)
« on: Saturday 30 July 22 19:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: staffs_vic on Saturday 30 July 22 17:18 BST (UK)
The house numbers of the properties he and his family occupied - his son and daughter-in-law lived next door - seem to change from one census to another

I wonder whether you're looking at the house numbers (i.e. postal addresses), or the schedule numbers which were allocated for census purposes only and weren't carried forward from one census to the next.  For example, here are the 1881 and 1891 entries for 194 & 195 Cowley Road:


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Berkshire / Re: Mary Hitchman of Wantage
« on: Sunday 14 November 21 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Jane190 on Wednesday 10 November 21 18:19 GMT (UK)
I also tried to join different family history societies to research my family for example Sussex,Berkshire but I don’t have PayPal or a credit card just debitcard. It’s easier to work with images transcriptions or indexes
Hi Jane,

Debit cards are fine for online payments.  I'm in Australia and also don't have a credit card or PayPal account, but I've made debit card payments to various countries for goods and services.  Never had a problem  :)

Carol

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Oxfordshire / Re: Burial for Ann Taylor
« on: Tuesday 05 October 21 16:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: cuffie81 on Sunday 03 October 21 18:06 BST (UK)
The OFHS have transcripts for the Radcliffe Infirmary but it looks like they only go up to 1855.

It might be worth getting in touch with OFHS to see if they know if burials continued after 1855
Quote from: tazzie on Sunday 03 October 21 19:48 BST (UK)
A report in the Church Times says the burial ground was closed by Order-in-Council in 1855.

Thanks tazzie for explaining the absence of burial records after 1855.

I have a copy of the CD mentioned by cuffie81.  The preamble to the Radcliffe transcripts includes the following:

"A single entry for 1771 is recorded in the burial register; otherwise the register dates from 1815 to 1855.

The death registers date from 1845 and appear to be complete except for the period 1874-8"

Steffyj, my copy of the CD isn't the most recent version.  It's possible that the missing death records for 1875 have been found since the Health Authority archives were transferred to the Oxfordshire History Centre (about 10 years ago?).  If I were you, I'd check with Oxfordshire Family History Society as they did the original transcribing; their email is help[AT]ofhs.org.uk

Carol

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Oxfordshire / Re: Studley Priory Family Lairs
« on: Thursday 30 September 21 19:16 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: cuffie81 on Thursday 30 September 21 18:42 BST (UK)
Larger view of Studley Priory map; 1919

https://maps.nls.uk/view/106017306#zoom=5&lat=8634&lon=12213&layers=BT

And there's 'The Enclosure (Burial Place)' again, complete with the path to the Priory  :D

I want to go there and have a look now  :(

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Oxfordshire / Re: Studley Priory Family Lairs
« on: Thursday 30 September 21 19:11 BST (UK)  »
Well just to be pernickety (it's the mood I'm in!), Find a Grave only shows us the churchyard memorials for Robert and Margaret.  There's no conclusive proof that they were buried there.

Baird, I meant to ask - are you and the Hendersons related, or were you just curious?

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