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workhouse or hospital? gravesend

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vanessa

vanessa Report 14 Dec 2011 08:05

HI Jan,
thanks for your reply. This was my first ever posting and it is exciting to get such a prompt reply. ( i see from your profile that you are a little more experienced....
i did try google all day and got some interesting information but I didn't think about contacting the local history society.
the residence of my great grandmother was given as 10 Trafalgar Rd so I think it was the workhouse at this time. the 1911 census describes the residents as "inmates"..
thank you again
vanessa

Researching:
eves manley bartholomew humphrey carter moore - mostly kent and essex

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 14 Dec 2011 07:55

Vanessa, have you tried a google search, or contacting the local history society if there is one? The nearest main library might help too.
Do bear in mind that workhouses often served as the local hospital, so even if she was born there it doesn't mean they were residents of the workhouse.

Try this site:

www.rootschat.com

Jan

Researching:
Myatt, Hanks, Eccleston, Powell, Clungunford, Birmingham

vanessa

vanessa Report 14 Dec 2011 07:15

hi, my grandmother was born at 10 Trafalgar st gravesend in 1910 which is the address of the Trafalgar Rd Workhouse (her mother was an unmarried girl of 18 when she gave birth). the workhouse later became St James' hospital - my question is.. when did it become a hospital and not a workhouse???? Another of my ancestors died at 10 Trafalgar Rd in 1926. Was it a workhouse then or the hospital?
thanks for any help anyone can give!
vanessa

Researching:
eves manley bartholomew humphrey carter moore - mostly kent and essex

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