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London and Middlesex / Re: Person finally found, now for the next step!
« on: Monday 26 April 10 17:18 BST (UK) »
Thanks Jebber, Yes, that's what I said in an earlier post, and that is probably what must have happened.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Person finally found, now for the next step!
« on: Monday 26 April 10 16:38 BST (UK) »
Thanks - well as long as I've some leads she can follow up, she'll be happy.
Think I might keep quite about the workhouse side of it and just tell her it was a hospital.
Think I might keep quite about the workhouse side of it and just tell her it was a hospital.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Person finally found, now for the next step!
« on: Monday 26 April 10 15:56 BST (UK) »
Thanks Jen.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Person finally found, now for the next step!
« on: Monday 26 April 10 15:47 BST (UK) »
Yes, probably. I suppose we now need to contact Islington Cemy to see if he was buried there.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Person finally found, now for the next step!
« on: Monday 26 April 10 15:20 BST (UK) »
Thank you.
His name was Roland William Slipper, but the death cert has him as William Roland.
If it was the workhouse, or rather the workhouse infirmary, would the informant have been another inmate or an employee?
Is it usual that they would have avoided using the term workhouse or infirmary in 1919 and make it appear as though it was a private house? I have a death cert from Liverpool from around the same time and it says workhouse.
My friend is going to be devastated when I tell her this - visions of him dying a pauper's death in the workhouse etc. I know this probably isn't the case and what I should imagined happened is that when he became too ill (he died of TB) he was taken to the infirmary as if it were any other hospital. I am going to have to explain this very carefully and sensitively to her.
His name was Roland William Slipper, but the death cert has him as William Roland.
If it was the workhouse, or rather the workhouse infirmary, would the informant have been another inmate or an employee?
Is it usual that they would have avoided using the term workhouse or infirmary in 1919 and make it appear as though it was a private house? I have a death cert from Liverpool from around the same time and it says workhouse.
My friend is going to be devastated when I tell her this - visions of him dying a pauper's death in the workhouse etc. I know this probably isn't the case and what I should imagined happened is that when he became too ill (he died of TB) he was taken to the infirmary as if it were any other hospital. I am going to have to explain this very carefully and sensitively to her.
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London and Middlesex / Person finally found, now for the next step!
« on: Monday 26 April 10 14:52 BST (UK) »
After what seems an eternity we have finally solved the mystery of what happened to my friend's great uncle!
We had quite a bit of misleading information which led us to believe he had gone to Canada after WW1, but we found a death registered in Islington for someone of the same name and age but with the initials of his Christian name reversed. We took a chance and sent for the certificate (which took absolutely ages to come!) and it's him without a doubt.
My friend is on holiday at the moment and I know she will be full of questions when she gets back wanting to know much much more, so I want to make a start now!
It gives his address, but this is not the same as the address where he died. He died at 77a Highgate Hill, Islington and the informant was the occupier - A.N. Robinson. So, the first thing she'll want to know is who was this A N Robinson? Does anyone have access to a street directory for Highgate Hill in 1919 that gives at least one of his (or her) first names?
Then she's going to want to know where he's buried, and having looked at the info re London burials I'm not sure how we'll go about finding that out. So any pointers, please.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
TIA
We had quite a bit of misleading information which led us to believe he had gone to Canada after WW1, but we found a death registered in Islington for someone of the same name and age but with the initials of his Christian name reversed. We took a chance and sent for the certificate (which took absolutely ages to come!) and it's him without a doubt.
My friend is on holiday at the moment and I know she will be full of questions when she gets back wanting to know much much more, so I want to make a start now!
It gives his address, but this is not the same as the address where he died. He died at 77a Highgate Hill, Islington and the informant was the occupier - A.N. Robinson. So, the first thing she'll want to know is who was this A N Robinson? Does anyone have access to a street directory for Highgate Hill in 1919 that gives at least one of his (or her) first names?
Then she's going to want to know where he's buried, and having looked at the info re London burials I'm not sure how we'll go about finding that out. So any pointers, please.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
TIA
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Wiltshire / Re: query road name in Swindon
« on: Saturday 31 October 09 07:21 GMT (UK) »
The local reference library couldn't find it, either, so obviously a mistake, hopefully this means the rest of the info given was wrong as well.
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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Missing from 1911 Census
« on: Friday 30 October 09 14:21 GMT (UK) »
Not been mistranscribed - just missing!
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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Missing from 1911 Census
« on: Thursday 29 October 09 18:09 GMT (UK) »
Tried all sorts of combinations, Roger, but no luck. Am used to doing that with all the bad transcriptions on ancestry, so do it out of habit when I don't find what I'm looking for at the first attempt!