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Hi Lesley
Thankyou so much for everything, the help was tremendous.
with love cathy x
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Hi Lesley and Rose
I know its quite a while since you helped me so incredibly with my mum`s birth record etc, but I recently followed up a bit more on her address at time of birth...and ...well !! She was actually born in Sunderland workhouse!!!!.
and although the law changed in 1928/30 and abolished workhouses ( supposedly to transform them into hospitals/poor law) some, including this one carried on for many years in the same way as before. So Mum and Nanna must have been absolutely destitute and desperate. There is more to find out on this regarding grandad? where was he when they were having to endure so much...but I will keep going till I get a fuller picture.
I just felt I would keep you updated...I hope you find it
regards cathy
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Just to let you know you can search the GRO index images on FreeBMD at:
http://images.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl
thru 1983-B, 1970-M, 1978-D.
I guess you've never done this or you'ld have found the 1948q2 marr entry:
1948M2-K-0236
Keegan Joseph Bond or Reynoldson Don Valley 2b 1077
I'll leave it up to you to work thru the deaths for Walter Bond. It's a bit of a pain to view images, so do a regular search for Bond deaths, and note any quarters that are missing or look incompletely transcribed, and check those out. [If the list stops at Thomas say, click on the spectacles to make sure Thomas isn't the last guy on the page, and the Walter page is not missing]
Note that the GRO isn't the only place you can buy certs - you can also get them from the local registery office, and some have their own indices (partially) online. A general list is at:
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php?form_action=local
Of particular interest are:
http://www.northeastbmd.org.uk/
http://www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk/index.html
Yorkshire Marriage indexes for the years: 1948
Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference
KEEGAN Joseph BOND Lily J Don Valley Register Office Doncaster DV/4/206
You'ld already mentioned these details - if you prefer I remove them, pm me and I'll edit or delete the post.
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Cathy, I have followed your story from the beginning and it's lovely to see the update.
Just a quick note. Even though workhouses continued they were used more as hospitals, & I've found this little snippet.
"In 1867, an additional 12-acre site was purchased adjacent to the workhouse and new hospital buildings were erected." So it is more than likely she was there just for the birth of Josephine.
Also: Tyne and Wear Archives Service - has records for Sunderland Royal Hospital
(Previous name(s)
Sunderland Workhouse and Poor Law Institution; Highfield Public Assistance Institution
Sunderland Municipal and General Hospital
Sunderland General Hospital; Sunderland District General Hospital)
including these for 'Clinical & Patients - 1866 - 1954' which may have some info for you. But it may be murky reading if it's mainly about their intellectually impaired patients.
Ozi.
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Hi mgnv and ozibird
Thankyou both for the additional info, I will certainly follow it and check further.
I have been given so much help and support, I can`t begin to thank you all.
I just felt it would be good to keep everyone up to date with any new or further developments.
regards
cathy x
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Hi Cathy,
I was about the say the same as Ozi regarding the workhouse being used as a hospital.
Thanks for the update,
Rose
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Hi Cathy
Have you had any luck with the Bond side yet then? I know Portland Rose stated that there were people who had William Bond in their trees - did you follow these up?
Lesley
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