Genealogy Chat

Helen, thanks so much for that information.


I appreciate the time and trouble everyone has taken to help me.




Val in SA.

www.workhouses.org uk

has info about the workhouse and this info about the surviving records

Records
Southampton Archives Service, Civic Centre, Southampton SO14 7LY. has a rich assortment of records going back as far as 1711. Holdings include: Guardians' minute books (1818-1930); visitors' books (1779-1833); settlement examination registers (1711-1901, with gaps); settlement of bastards registers (1811-39); examination and removal orders (1817-42); papers for emigration of children to Canada (1902-07) etc.

Gwyn in Kent,
Thanks a lot for the information, I will try bereavement services.

Hawkwind,
On the 1861 census she is in the Southampton Workhouse.


Thank you both very much for your assistance.




Val in SA.

Where is she on the 1861 Census?

Southampton has good records of burials, listed on computer. I have had great help from the staff in the past.

From their online site.........

Bereavement Services

Contact Details:
Address: The Register Office 6a Bugle Street Southampton
Postcode: SO14 2LX
Telephone: 023 8022 8609
Email: [email protected]

Bereavement services provides a search of Southampton City Council cemetery and cremation records and can give you details of where someone is buried in one of the five council cemeteries, Millbrook, Hollybrook, St Mary Extra, Southampton (old cemetery) and South Stoneham or give you details of where cremated remains have been scattered if the person was cremated at Southampton Crematorium.

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Maybe your person shares a grave with someone and although relationship won't be shown, the names might help you to link them into a family.

Gwyn

Jonesey, thank you for that information and also for taking the time to reply




Val in SA..

Thanks so much for your reply DET.
I have no idea why she was admitted, I presumed because she had fallen on hard times



Val in SA.

IF....the original records survive, and you can track them down, then there might be something of help in them.

Unless she was admitted due to illness, I doubt if burial records, if you could find them, would be of much good.

I have just received a death certificate which I ordered in the hope that I would find something which would confirm that this was indeed the person I was looking for. Unfortunately there is nothing on the certificate to confirm this. She died in the Poor House, Southampton in 1863. I have looked at Southampton Workhouses with no success. Is there any way I can find who her next of kin was. If someone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful.

Thank you for your time.

I will be back in half an hour.



Val in SA.