Willett Street, Bideford - 1845 - anything special?

[scottvsaunders]

Hey

Daft question but was there anything special on Willetts Street in the mid 1800's?

Managed to find a death cert for an ancestor who lived on Potters Lane but died in Willetts Street with a random person in attendance (Sarah Bridgeman) on the 30.5.1845.

This relative (Sarah Saunders / Sanders) died of consumption so my initial thought process was that  there might be some kind of medical facility there at the the time .

I don't believe this Sarah Bridgeman person could read / write as there is a X on the death cert and some text suggesting this is her "mark".

Can anyone shed any light on this please?

Below, is a Onedrive link to the cert with the information available to me
(https://1drv.ms/i/s!AnNv7upSOyahgaVDYKvQC5Ucha6eUA?e=9xNTAJ)

Thanks

Scott

[rosie99]

In 1841 living at Willett Street was a Sarah Bridgman age 40 with presumably her husband Richard, one of their children was also a Sarah.  Her husband died the following year.

In 1851 she is still at Willett Street and a widow occ Laundress.

That certificate you have linked gives the place of death as Potters Lane.  The Willett St address is Sarah Bridgmans

[scottvsaunders]

that's some lovely info there so thank you - I think I might have been reading too much into it.  I am also researching my mothers side and that's all Birmingham etc which turns out that there were quite a few "pop up" hospitals in the mid 1800 so I was (wrongly) guessing it was the same everywhere.

Thank you again for this info - I now just need to peace it all together and see where they fit.

Scott

[scottvsaunders]

sorry, was this info on Ancestry or did you used one of the other sites?

[rosie99]

The information came from the census which is available on Ancestry and FindMyPast.