Hospital etc- Long Bennington, 1840's - 1860's

[mead researcher]

Hello to people who may know the answer to my question (fingers crossed).

I have received some Death Certificates with "When Died" showing date and place.

Place in a couple of instances being "Long Bennington" - nothing more than that.
(Of course I had been hoping for more detail)

I have a Burial Parish Record for one of the chaps and it states ABODE - BALDERTON BURIED - LONG BENNINGTON. But his Death Certificate states Place of Death to be Long Bennington.

If someone was ill in the 1840's - 1860's I'm wondering would they go from their ABODE to a hospital or similar where they eventually died and their place of death was then shown just as Long Bennington....? 

I had heard somewhere that there may have been a Cottage Hospital in Long Bennington, or maybe some other institution that would account for place of death showing as just Long Bennington.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Barbara - Australia

[rosie99]

If you look at census in the 1800's you will see that they often just had 'Village' or similar as their address.  Have a look at the census for Long Bennington in 1851, you will see the lack of road names.
People did not have numbers and street names as we do now. 

Any hospital would likely be the local workhouse but it is more likely they died at home

ADDED It is not until the 1871 that Long Bennington census shows road names.  It is likely that 'Balderton' was just an area within L.B. such as a farm and its surrounding cottages, sorry I don't know the area to be able help further with the location of it

[BumbleB]

Balderton and Long Bennington appear on this map.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=14&lat=53.04411&lon=-0.76415&layers=6&right=ESRIWorld

[rosie99]

Thank you BumbleB  .

[mead researcher]

Thank you rosie99 and BumbleB.
Balderton is just over the county line in Nottinghamshire.

I was disappointed as my 2 x Great Grandmother (possibly the daughter of the chap who died in 1863) lived in Balderton, Notts. and had hoped he may have been living with her and his Death Certificate might have had her Balderton address (Church Lane, 1851 census) as his place of death.
(thereby proving a family connection).

Not to be 

Thanks again.

[rosie99]

What was the name of the person who died, who was the informant on the death certificate

[mead researcher]

From GRO Death Certificate:
William BAGGALEY DIED 6 June 1863 Long Bennington Male 88 years Farm Laborer
Cause of Death - Decay of Nature Certified
Signature, Description and Residence of Informant - Sarah Baggaley in attendance Long Bennington
Regd. 8 June 1863.
...

Parish Record of his Burial states his abode to have been Balderton (Nottinghamshire) (where Mary Taylor nee Baggaley), widow, pauper resided in 1861. He was Buried St Swithins Churchyard, Long Bennington.

She died 1867 at her married daughter's home in Southwell, Notts.

Much research has been done on this family line. There are a few Sarah Baggaley's who were possibly the informant - difficult to narrow down...

William did not have a daughter named Sarah...

Baggaley may even have been her married name.....

He and his wife Jane nee HARDWICK had 13 known children - a number died young and names were repeated for later issue.

The reason I was hoping to find William might have been with Mary TAYLOR (nee Baggaley) when he died thereby proving a connection, is that despite much research her birth and parentage have never been discovered. 

[KGarrad]

Both Balderton (Notts) and Long Bennington (Lincolnshire) came under the Newark Poor Law Union.
And therefore the Newark workhouse.
Can't find any mention of an Infirmary in the early years, but that was the nearest thing to a hospital that most people could afford.

See: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Newark/

[mead researcher]

Thanks KGarrad.
From records we know that William Baggaley was a cottager.
His wife predeceased him and he was the beneficiary according to her Probate record.
I wish I could recall where the possibility of a Cottage Hospital was mentioned...