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Family History Beginners Board / Re: George Mills Bromyard ,Herefordshire
« on: Wednesday 02 September 15 09:54 BST (UK) »
Thank you both for your input. I will certainly contact Bromyard History society and perhaps take a trip out there.
As to why the name Sam was chosen,that is a mystery. He was called that aged 5 on the 1911 census.By then he was back living at the blacksmith's in Collington with his grandparents, quite a few of their children and his mother.There would have been 3 Georges if he'd kept that name. I had wondered if Sam was his real father's name but would he have been called that if his grandparents were raising him as their own son? Wasn't getting pregnant when unmarried and so young considered somewhat shameful in those days?
Also, am I right in thinking Linton House was the workhouse? Was it normal for girls in my grandmothers situation to have their babies there? Perhaps,if the workhouse records survive, they might tell me how long
they were there and if she returned to her parents home directly after the birth.
I can find no record of a marriage for Caroline Maud Mills and no death record either but I can find a marriage record for Beatrice Annie Mills (Caroline's sister) to a Charles Bethell in Bromyard 1920 which could be the right one perhaps.
As to why the name Sam was chosen,that is a mystery. He was called that aged 5 on the 1911 census.By then he was back living at the blacksmith's in Collington with his grandparents, quite a few of their children and his mother.There would have been 3 Georges if he'd kept that name. I had wondered if Sam was his real father's name but would he have been called that if his grandparents were raising him as their own son? Wasn't getting pregnant when unmarried and so young considered somewhat shameful in those days?
Also, am I right in thinking Linton House was the workhouse? Was it normal for girls in my grandmothers situation to have their babies there? Perhaps,if the workhouse records survive, they might tell me how long
they were there and if she returned to her parents home directly after the birth.
I can find no record of a marriage for Caroline Maud Mills and no death record either but I can find a marriage record for Beatrice Annie Mills (Caroline's sister) to a Charles Bethell in Bromyard 1920 which could be the right one perhaps.