Gower Street

[Spidermonkey]

Hi all,

I am looking for an elusive ancestor's even more elusive third wife!  In the only census that I have found her on, she gives her place of birth as Gower Street.  Would Gower Street have come under Bloomsbury registration district?

Many thanks,

Spidermonkey

[Valda]

Hi

Bloomsbury was a subdistrict of St Giles in the Fields

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/st%20giles.html

though in the early part of civil registration the civil registration district is mostly named as Bloomsbury to about 1845.

The two subdistricts of St Giles registration district were St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury (St George and St Giles it sometimes appears as until St Giles takes over in the 1840s).

That registration district should cover most of Gower Street (quite a long road) but not necessarily all of it. St Pancras would be the registration district to the north of St Giles. This map shows the civil registration districts in 1851.

http://maps.familysearch.org/


Regards

Valda

[Spidermonkey]

Thank you Valda

[millymcb]

There are/were some old hospitals on Gower Street - including some women's hospitals. Perhaps she meant she was born in one of those...especially as it is unusual for someone to put a specific street as a birth place on a  census.

You would need to check against the birth year but ..

I am thinking of University College Hospital which still has a lot of buildings all round that area
or
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital  was in that area - but I'm not sure of the exact address
and how many buildings there were
or
London Temperance Hospital opened at 112 Gower Street in 1873

Milly

[Valda]

Hi


Most births at the time would still be home births but as Milly says there were hospitals in that area of London.

University College hospital was founded in 1833 in Gower Street as The North London Hospital and the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital began life in 1866 as the St Mary's Dispensary for Women in Seymour Place Marylebone and then in Marylebone Road until 1890 when it moved to the Euston Road.


Regards

Valda

[Spidermonkey]

Thank you for those pointers MIlly and Valda, I hadn't thought about the specific address perhaps indicating a hospital birth.  On the 1901 census, which is the only trace of Katherine I have, she is 44 which would put her birth at c. 1857 so she could have been born at University College Hospital.  (However, as she is 30 years younger than her husband then she could have also massaged her age a bit!)

[Valda]

Hi

Have you obtained a copy of their marriage certificate? Was Shilston Katherine's maiden name?

Marriages Sep 1895 
Hammond  Robert    Islington  1b 742     
Shilston  Katherine Edith T     Islington  1b 742 


Regards

Valda 

[Spidermonkey]

This is what I am wondering.  This all started as an idle Sunday morning check to hatch, match and dispatch Katherine - I had got her as Catherine Harris who married Robert Percy Hammond in 1895, but then realised that Ancestry had the marriage cert and Robert was way to young and wrong profession so it was back to the drawing board!

I can't find a Kate/Katherine/Catherine Shilston being born c. 1857, so I am guessing that this is her married name; but then equally I can't find a convincing Katherine~Shilston marriage.

I'll probably spend another couple of days trying to work out which Katherine she is, and then buy the marriage cert   

[Spidermonkey]

Just to update - I eventually caved and bought a copy of Robert and Katherine's marriage cert.  It arrived today, and states that Katherine is a widow, father's name is Benjamin Gaden.