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Kenninghall 1873 (Duffield) & Hingham / Wicklewood 1888 (Bullen)
« on: Wednesday 15 August 18 12:25 BST (UK) »
Hello,

I'm trying to locate two burials:

Ann Duffield died 19 Feb 1873 Kenninghall aged 56 Years.
John Bullen died 10 Aug 1888 Wicklewood Workhouse aged 92 Years (from the Parish of Hingham).

I have checked the Parish registers online for Kenninghall and Hingham / Wicklewood but can't see these burials.

Was there a civil cemetery at this time or a burial ground at the Workhouse?  I'm not local so can only access online resources.

Thanks in advance for any info or suggestions,

Caroline



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Re: Kenninghall 1873 (Duffield) & Hingham / Wicklewood 1888 (Bullen)
« Reply #1 on: Friday 05 October 18 10:47 BST (UK) »
Hello,

still hoping somebody may be able to point me in the right direction with this one!

Any suggestions or even any reasons why these may be tricky ones to track down?

Thanks again

Caroline

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Re: Kenninghall 1873 (Duffield) & Hingham / Wicklewood 1888 (Bullen)
« Reply #2 on: Friday 05 October 18 15:02 BST (UK) »
Hallo, Caroline

Your post hasn't been forgotten - it's just that no-one has come up with an answer yet.

I don't have local knowledge, so it might be worth trying http://hinghamhistorycentre.co.uk/ to see if they can help.

The dates are too early for cremation, but I wonder what use was made of bodies in later Victorian times for dissection. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/life/death.shtml states:
Under the terms of the 1832 Anatomy Act, bodies unclaimed for forty-eight hours could also be disposed of by donating them for use in medical research and training — this was not specific to workhouses, but applied to any institution whose inmates died while in its care. Deaths were, however, always registered in the normal way.

Wicklewood workhouse was in the Forehoe Poor Law Union. FindMyPest has records but I don't have a sub so I don't know what the records contain:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/norfolk-poor-law-union-records-1796-1900-image-browse

Philip
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Re: Kenninghall 1873 (Duffield) & Hingham / Wicklewood 1888 (Bullen)
« Reply #3 on: Friday 05 October 18 15:47 BST (UK) »
Hi Phillip,

thank you for your reply. 

I have already had a look through the poor-law records but didn't turn up anything about a burial (only admission and death).  The "unclaimed bodies" avenue is quite an interesting one which I hadn't considered.

John was living with his son (Charles Bullen, "beer house keeper" at the Swan Inn) for many years until the last couple of weeks prior to his death so I would hope that the family could have afforded a burial for him.

I'll try the Hingham history centre and see anybody there can point me on the right track.

Thank you for the suggestions,

Caroline