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Hello, y'all.

I am looking for information on Annie Belshaw (nee?) of Idlewells, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

What I've been able to find:

From The British Journal of Nursing Supplement, 4, August 1917...

Annie was a midwife, but was 'struck off the roll' and had her 'certificate cancelled' because she had performed an abortion which resulted in the death of a woman. She was sentenced to three years in prison.

From a couple of Notts newspapers...

In 1939, she was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter for performing an abortion which resulted in a death. Her age in 1939 is either 57 or 69. She was a widow, and was a shopkeeper at 16 Idlewells.

Ancestry gives me two possible Annies.

I would love to know more about her life and what happened to her after prison.

Can anybody point me to anything I could maybe find online? (I'm in the US.)

Thanks!

Does anyone know why this bit of Alfreton was called 'Drunken Closes'?

Looking around online, I found out that in 1893, the Trustees of Morewood Charity (whoever they were!) sold the Drunken Closes to the Alfreton Urban District Council and that they laid out Leabrooks Cememtery. (I think I got that right. )

I am wondering about the area because James Cartledge (Blacksmith/Publican at The Three Horseshoes) is an ancestor who lived around there somewheres.

Thanks!

Hi! I am trying to find a marriage record for Edward Smedley and Jemima Hodgett. From what I am finding on ancestry, it looks like they were married in Loughborough around 1850. The strange thing about it is that they were both born in Notts and had their first child in Notts around 1850. Cannot understand why they would go to Leicestershire to get married -- especially when all their family are in Notts and Derbys.

Edward Smedley b. 1824

Jemima Hodgett b. 1830  Her parents are John and Ann.

Thanks! 

Hello! I have been looking for info on my husband's great(x2) grandfather, Henry Cook.

I've been all over ancestry.com, but I can't find any *firm* records. I did come across another member who had his death listed as "1871, BASFORD RD, Derby". I think that Notts may have 'absorbed' this area at some point, but I'm not sure if that was the case at the time he died.

All I know for sure is that we was married to Sarah Cartledge in 1866 and that she was widowed by 1871. They had a son, Harry, who was two in 1871. I can find no other *solid* records about this man before then!

Where is this place? Why would someone put that as his place of death? I have tried to contact the ancestry member who made that entry, but haven't heard anything back.

Any info appreiciated!
 

Hiya! I don't know if *anyone* would know anything about this, but I have tried to find what I could via google and came up with nothing.

My husband has a male ancestor who had an affair. The lady involved fell pregnant and allegedly died from a botched termination. This was in 1939. I found her will, and it says that she died at ____________ Nursing Home. I did a bit a research on the Home and found out that it was a Maternity Home at that time and there was some reference to it being 'Voluntary'.

Does anyone know what 'voluntary' would have meant? Does that mean that the staff would have been made up of 'volunteers'?

Does it seem reasonable that someone who allegedly died via a botched termination would have received care at a Maternity Home?

Thanks!

- Roz