Can anyone advise on this query. I am attaching the death certificate of an ancestor on my Layton FT but he is in the direct line for someone I share FH information with in Australia. He says, and is convinced, that John Hall died in Ledbury Workhouse and wonders why when he owned considerable land in the Mathon / Malvern area in his younger days, as did his wife's family, the Laytons. And there appeared to be property passed on to his son Henry. The place of death is given as Bank, Mathon, which would be Bank Farm, where he lived and had been in his wife's family for years. I am not convinced that he was in the Workhouse though.
Why does the Registration District say Ledbury Poor Law Union - was it because Mathon was in this district and other death certificates would have said the same, even though people were not inmates of the workhouse ?
Or the fact that it does say Ledbury Poor Law Union, means he was an inmate there.
Was it also used as a hospital and might he have been there because he was sick and not because he was destitute ?
I realise that folks could have land and property and live very well but then, for various reasons, lose everything and have nothing at the end of their lives. Martha Jones was his daughter. It does say Ledbury as the sub-district. Mathon was in county of Herefordshire at one time and then in Worcestershire at other times.
