Author Topic: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage  (Read 12439 times)

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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 26 June 11 21:05 BST (UK) »
Do you know if these could be family members?
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 26 June 11 21:16 BST (UK) »
Hi Again Bearkat and all,

Very interesting find, on the last question by Bearkat about the witnesses on the Marriage certificate.
I looked up the two Witnesses on the 1911 census, Charles Macrow was an inmate in the Dartford Union Workhouse, and Robert Cooper was a Patient at the Metropolitan Imbecile Asylum Darenth Near Dartford !?

Was it a common thing at the the turn of the century to have Witnesses to marriages perhaps taken from the "Useless and unemployed, or Sick" or maybe temporarily employed to act as witnesses?

Slightly off topic, i know. But raises a few questions perhaps on society at the time.

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Michael
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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 26 June 11 21:22 BST (UK) »
You could choose anybody to witness your marriage, even someone off the street but I doubt that an imbecile would be considered suitable.
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 26 June 11 21:33 BST (UK) »
Does the marriage certificate give Margaret's address?
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
 All UK census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk


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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 26 June 11 22:01 BST (UK) »
Hi Again,

The address on the certificate was Waterside Lodge, Bourne Road, Bexley, Kent

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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 26 June 11 22:26 BST (UK) »
Bexley Street directories are online.  I've looked at 1911 & 1913 but I can't see Waterside Lodge.  :-\

http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10646
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 26 June 11 22:32 BST (UK) »
Hi Again Bearkat,

I do apologize, looking at the certificate under a magnifying lens, it is Warwick Lodge, not Waterside.
Silly me.

Sorry,

Michael
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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #25 on: Monday 27 June 11 07:40 BST (UK) »
Don't worry, we all know how bad the handwriting of registrars can be ::)

In 1911 John Ernest BENN is living at this address.

It must have been a big house.  If you do an internet search for the address you will find it had stables.  I haven't been able to find much else though. :-\
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
 All UK census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Help please, Margaret Glasgo,Droxford Union Workhouse, Soberton Vicarage
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 12 February 13 22:03 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone have any access to the Droxford union Workhouse Records, to see if she appears there, or could anyone find any thing from the Soberton Vicarage records please?


Peter Higginbothom's Workhouse website says of Droxford Workhouse:

 Few records survive — holdings include Guardians' minute books (1835-1930); Ledgers (1836-1928); Letter books (1835-39).



If anyone is at the Records office, could anyone possibly spare some time to have a look at these records, and report back if Margaret or her daughter Patricia is mentioned in them please.
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