Sarah Booth of Llangollen 1800s

[paddy22]

Hi Gadget,

Re my search for Sarah Booth.   There is a Sarah Booth age 80 in Mile End Workhouse  1893.  As Thomas Bentley Booth died in Stepney I suppose she could have been in the area.  How do I prove it's her though as I've never been happy just to make facts fit.

I would appreciate the benefit of your experience.

Regards
Pat

[Gadget]

There are some records of Mile End at the London Met Archives - see end of this page:

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/MileEndOldTown/

It might be worth you asking for a look up at the LMA.

Gadget

[paddy22]

I've looked at the admissions and discharge.   DOB is shown but not not place of birth.   Will have to find another angle.

Pat

[Gadget]

What is the date of birth?

[Gadget]

Have you checked for any Sarah Booths, b.c. 1813 in London area on the 1891?

(sorry posted previous message before I'd finished    )

[paddy22]

Yes I have checked for 1891.   It shows a Sarah Booth in the workhouse infirmary but no other information to prove it's my Sarah.   

To confuse matters there is a Sarah Booth born in Stepney in 1813, not Llangollen, Wales.

Pat

[Gadget]

Admission - Tower Hamlets, Stepney
24 Feb 1894
Sarah Booth aged 81

As you said that William's marriage cert in1893 records her as deceased. this might not be her. He  could, of course, not know her whereabouts.


Gadget

His mother is deceased in 1893 when William remarried in Aberdeen.


Pat

[Gadget]

More details

It says that she was transferred from Mile End and was a Lacemaker, b. 1813


Gadget

[paddy22]

I don't think it's her.  There's a few records of the SB born in Stepney being a Lacemaker.   Sarah was a housekeeper in Bury, Lancashire.   I know people took a variety of jobs then to survive but how likely to switch to lacemaker ?

Pat