Shoreditch Infirmary Board of Guardians Records

[stoggsy]

Hi all

Just wondering if anyone has access to the details contained within the records of the Shoreditch Infirmary Board of Guardians documentation?

All i can find online is a reference to this material held by the National Archives but i can't get there too easily - do i have to go there in person to view the material or is any of it on line?

I'm looking to confirm the details surrounding the death of my gg grandfather, Frederick Storey born 1845 in Shoreditch and died, most likely in the Infirmary on 28 Feb 1918. His wife was Emma Storey (nee Dellar).

I can't find any admission details, details of death or a resting place for him on line so i hope there is something in these records. As i know so much else about him it's a pity i can't quite finish the story!

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Stoggsy

[Bookbox]

I'm looking to confirm the details surrounding the death of my gg grandfather, Frederick Storey born 1845 in Shoreditch and died, most likely in the Infirmary on 28 Feb 1918.

What does the death certificate give as his place of death?

[stoggsy]

Hi Bookbox

That's what i don't have! I'm confident his wife registered the death but am i right in thinking the certificate wouldn't give me details of where he was buried or any details in relation to his admission?

These are the details i'm really after. Do you know if i would have to go to the National Archives to view the records or is anything on line that i've managed to miss!?

Thanks

[Bookbox]

English/Welsh death certificates don’t provide any details of burial.

The Shoreditch Infirmary became St Leonard’s Hospital, and the records are therefore classed as hospital records, not as poor-law records. They are not part of the Shoreditch Board of Guardians records at this date.

They are at London Metropolitan Archives (not the National Archives). They are not online.

There are no admission or patient/clinical registers for 1918. The only register for that period is the Register of Deaths, Feb 1884 – Oct 1940, H19/SL/B/03/001. This may or may not refer to burial.

Clearly you have some reason to believe he died in the Infirmary? If you order the death certificate, it will tell you if he did. If he didn’t, there’d be no point in looking up the hospital records at LMA.

[stoggsy]

Bookbox

Thanks for your help. I can at least stop looking on line in the knowledge i have to go to London one day.

You're right about the death certificate - it might at least advance my knowledge a little even if it doesn't provide the details i'm really after.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Regards

Stoggsy

[jonwarrn]

He is not in the Shoreditch workhouse creed register. Very often - but not always - the workhouse was the first stop on the way to the infirmary.
As Bookbox has said you really will need the death certificate to find out exactly where Frederick died.

If his wife was the Emma Storey who died in Shoreditch in 1930, aged 80, then she is buried at Abney Park Cemetery. But no indication of Frederick being buried there.

[stoggsy]

Jonw65

Thanks for your reply - you do indeed have the correct Emma Storey and i have her details courtesy of a post pointing me in the right direction sometime ago.

I have been after Frederick's resting place for sometime now but with no luck - he seems to have disappeared after the 1911 census.

There is a will for a Frederick Storey from 1918 but i don't think it is the right man as the location, Middlesex, doesn't match with anything from earlier in his life.

Bit of a mystery to have no record of where may have ended up....

Thanks for your help though

Stoggsy