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Hi Jacqui - two of the wards I can remember were Louisa Raynes and Fanny Burney. I was only a child but my parents and grandparents worked at the hospital, and lived just outside the grounds so I spent a lot of time there.   

I've just dug out an old book and there was also Lady Dudley Ward mentioned in it.

Yes, that's correct. Austin b1844 was my husbands great-great grandfather.

I have an Ancestry membership and most of my family research is focussed in England, for both myself and my husband however my mum is Irish and I'm finding that Ancestry is not particularly helpful for this side of the family.

Is there are a better website to use for Irish research?

Thank you, that death looks more promising. (If a death could ever look promising!). I'll order that certificate too.

So frustrating how much the name has changed.

Still struggling to find a birth, will try alternative spellings of Barrett today, just in case.

Yes, Claire is right, that is the correct marriage, though I hadn't seen all the details before now and I can see they are both stated as living at Eccleston and that gives me a little more to search on.

Thank you for the deaths info, certainly sounds right area/right time - I'll order certificate to double check.

Re her birth, all the census's say she was born Liverpool/Lancashire and she married at Prescot, just outside Liverpool.

Re Isaac's death - I would have expected it to be slightly later as their daughter was born in 1842 but I guess that Margaret could have been pregnant when he died? Though West Bromwich was quite far on the other side of Birmingham from where they were living.