Workhouse Death 1898

[exessexgirl]

Hi all
A death at the Bethnal Green Workhouse 1898. Name of Undertaker - Bassett. Any ideas where the person would be buried ?
Lyn 

[Valda]

Hi

First it depends whether this was a burial arranged by the workhouse or the family. Civic cemeteries competed with each other to get the business of institutions. Poor law unions would agree a contract with the cheapest. They were not concerned whether the cemetery was close by. Westminster and Bermondsey for instance used Brookwood in Woking Surrey. Contracts came and went so burials might move to another cemetery.
If buried by relatives then again it might not be the nearest cemetery but one where near where the person was loving before. However you have to start somewhere so cemeteries in the present day London borough of Tower Hamlets and Hackney will be the nearest.
Further information and links are in the guide to London burials at the top of the Rootschat London and Middlesex boards.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,403485.20.html

Presumably the entry in the workhouse death register gives no further clues?


Regards

Valda