Hi
The record doesn’t say much at all other than she was admitted on the 9 January 1862 and that the date of discharge or death was 29 June 1863 and a mark was also made in the ‘pauper’ column as opposed to the ‘private’ column.
Claire
Hi and thanks for all the info'
Doubt my Hannah would have been a pauper admission as my 2nd great grandfather, Joseph, from what I know was fairly affluent being a Miller. Indeed when he died in the early 1920's he left about £4000 in his will. There was a history of Downs syndrome in the family but the only definite case I know of was Joseph Thompson's grandson, Eric- a child of Joseph's daughter Margaret, my great grandmother, with his second wife. Several of Joseph's children died in their 20's unmarried and my great grandmother was only in her 40's when she died in 1918. The only photograph we have of her taken around 1917 she looks like she's in her 70's.
I know people died younger then, but they were an affluent family and Joseph himself survived into his 80's.
Yes, Hannah was born in Weardale Durham, but of course upper Weardale is spitting distance to Alston which is in Cumberland, which is why I asked about the admission, but it sounds like it's not her
The last record of a child being born to Hannah which I have is Elizabeth in 1861 and as
Possibly she had another child ,William, in 1863 and sadly Hannah died ?in childbirth and the baby died later in the same year. Of course in 1800's in Weardale there was a very limited number of surnames so the death of the infant may not be the one born to Hannah Lee.
If I have the correct information,on the 1881 census Hannah's eldest child, Annie Maria, is married to a William Thompson (also born in upper Weardale -aargh!) and they're living in Suffolk. Annie Maria's brother and sister, John and Elizabeth are also on the census. According to my information both John and Elizabeth died in their 20's.
