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I have one of these amendments on a death record for an ancestor who died in Belfast in 1893. Most of his family were in Liverpool and may not have realised he had died at the time. Nearly two years after the death his daughter and daughter in law must have gone to Belfast, seen his death information and gave the corrections at that time which were added in note form beside the entry. An additional one entry record has also been added to the page with the same information but with text underneath certifying the entry, the amendment, including signature, date etc.


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I am attempting to decipher the meaning of 'inmate' for the Kirkdale Homes 241, Westminster Road. address on an ancestor of mine where he lived in 1939. Could the inmate refer to being instituted as a mental patient or could it refer to a workhouse? My ancestor was 40 years old. Thank you!

'Inmate' was an old term that seems to infer confinement but 'patient' or 'resident' would be a better term here. It started out as 'Kirkdale Homes for the aged and infirm' in 1904. Infirmity would infer that some patients may not have been aged but would have been mentally or physically impaired in some way. In 1939 Kirkdale Homes was run by Liverpool City Council. In 1948 it was run by Liverpool City Council and the Regional Hospital Board. They became 'Westminster House Home for elderly people' in the early 1950s. It closed in 1968 and the buildings were demolished. This historical information comes from this site:-

https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Liverpool/


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You can see Latimer Buildings off Slade Street on this map:-

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.9&lat=53.42406&lon=-2.98732&layers=117746212&b=1


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From past experiences editing wiki, forums and message boards as sources are usually challenged. If new information comes to light via RootsChat or another similar site if you want to advance the new information by getting it included on wiki either do an online article or get something published. Who you are and your background also matters. The most I've done to advance new information is to work with an Australian historian and get an article published in both our names. That carried enough weight to overcome the opposition on wiki that rejected the new information that had come to light on RootsChat, a source that wiki doesn't accept.


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I remember on a Cilla Black Welsh genealogy TV show she met a distant relation in Wales they said in the old days they walked from north east Wales to Liverpool. One brother settled in Liverpool and was a direct ancestor of Cilla Black and another brother decided to return to Wales. They were pretty hardy in those days.


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