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« on: Saturday 24 October 15 17:18 BST (UK) »
Hi, can anyone please confirm or set me correctly on what Ive been thinking. My 3xgreat grandmother is listed as a sickhouse keeper in 1901.Was a sickhouse the same as a poorhouse?  (Am in Scotland so hence use of poorhouse and not workhouse) Any advice would be greatfully received. (Also this was a cottage rather than a large house/building)

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Re: sickhouse keeper
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 24 October 15 20:21 BST (UK) »
Hi GrannyBell

Maybe something like what is defined here? www.workhouses.org.uk/Scotland/AlmshousesScotland.shtml

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Re: sickhouse keeper
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 24 October 15 20:40 BST (UK) »
Thank you MonicaL  :)

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Re: sickhouse keeper
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 24 October 15 21:05 BST (UK) »
Think it was a facility run by a Parish Council for minor ailments of typically homeless persons while the Poor house hospital would be for more serious "nursing" cases
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Re: sickhouse keeper
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 24 October 15 21:19 BST (UK) »
Quote from: deebel on Saturday 24 October 15 21:05 BST (UK)
Think it was a facility run by a Parish Council for minor ailments of typically homeless persons while the Poor house hospital would be for more serious "nursing" cases

Thank you for that, that would make more sense, as it was only a small cottage probably with just 2 rooms. Locally they have it as a poorhouse. I presume the sickhouse keeper was given this 'position' by the local parish church? (She had 2 children with her Aged 20 and 22 at the time of census)
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