Honor Judge nee Melia b. Ormskirk 1866

[avm228]

What is the cause of death on the workhouse death certificate (and who was the informant)?

[emeltom]

According to the GRO site James Judge was born Ormskirk 1896 mmn Melia

Emeltom

[rosie99]

According to the GRO site James Judge was born Ormskirk 1896 mmn Melia

Emeltom

I posted that information on reply 1   

[spadge1964]

Cause of death on the 1900 Bolton death cert was influenza / pneumonia, and the informant was George Davies, Master of the workhouse at Fishpool, Farnworth.

[rosie99]

rosie99,

I will also check out the 1896 birth of James Judge. Not a name I have seen before, but a possibility given the DOBs of Honor's other children.

It is possible that James bn 1896 died in infancy
Deaths Mar qtr 1897   
Judge    James    age 0   
Prescot    8b   500

Prescot RD
https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/prescot.html

[spadge1964]

Thanks again. Does the date in the death register reflect the date of death or the date when the death was registered? The birth was in the December quarter and death in the March quarter of the following year and I am trying to figure out whether James died during birth, which would fit the story of his mother Honor dying in child birth (in a way). Will know more about James in a few days when his birth cert arrives.

[rosie99]

The date quoted for the death registration was the quarter in which it was registered.

[andrewalston]

Bolton workhouse at Fishpool eventually became Townley's Hospital. My brother was born there. In workhouse times, it would have provided medical facilities to those in need. Some workhouses had separate maternity wards; Bolton doesn't seem to have had that.

Bolton archives has a lot of the workhouse records available. Admission and discharge registers give the locality from where an inmate was admitted and the reason for discharge. There is a death register which gives burial details - it says my ggg grandmother was "interred by friends" in January 1897.  She's actually in Heaton Cemetery.

[spadge1964]

James was born on 14th October 1896 to Honor and Patrick Judge in Ormskirk which makes him my 2nd great-uncle. His birth was registered on 1st December 1896 with Honor as the informant so she did not die during this birth.