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Title: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: northern_rose on Saturday 12 March 11 18:35 GMT (UK)
I believe it is possible that my father's aunt may have died aged 17 in Darwen in 1941 - possibly in an institution for people with Learning Disabilities (maybe Downs?)

Does anyone know of such an institution that would have accepted people from quite some distance away (e.g. Barrow-in-Furness)?

Many thanks
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: FODC on Wednesday 21 April 21 08:29 BST (UK)
Did you receive a reply?
How do you know the death took place in Darwen?
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: Milliepede on Wednesday 21 April 21 11:44 BST (UK)
You could always get the death certificate for her to see more information.

Where was she on the 1939 register.
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: FODC on Wednesday 21 April 21 15:02 BST (UK)
Hi

If you have found the death on the GRO Index of Darwen and the Registration District is gen as DARWEN it is important the you consider the the RD covered more than the town of Darwen. I would suggest that you try www.lancashirebmd.org.uk as it will give you the sub-district in which the death took place. You may find it could Mellor, Billington rather than Darwen
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: northern_rose on Wednesday 21 April 21 19:20 BST (UK)
Thank you for reviving this thread and giving me the nudge I needed to look Winifred up again.

In 1939 she was at her family home in Barrow in Furness and is listed as incapacitated.

I hadn't ordered her death certificate (but have now). I hadn't thought to look up the registration on Lanc BMD - that shows her death in Billington. Would I be correct in presuming she could therefore have been at Calderstones?

In a strange coincidence I watched a YouTube video a week or two back about Calderstones Cemetery and found it fascinating! My lady was buried back at Barrow though.
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: Milliepede on Wednesday 21 April 21 22:03 BST (UK)
Personally I wouldn't presume anything until you receive the death certificate and can see what information is on it.  It will have place and cause of death plus who the informant of the death was.
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: northern_rose on Wednesday 21 April 21 22:06 BST (UK)
Quote from: Milliepede on Wednesday 21 April 21 22:03 BST (UK)
Personally I wouldn't presume anything until you receive the death certificate and can see what information is on it.  It will have place and cause of death plus who the informant of the death was.
Agree I would never presume until the certificate arrives (it's ordered).

I was really asking if anyone knows which district Calderstones deaths were recorded in?
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: Milliepede on Wednesday 21 April 21 22:17 BST (UK)
Was the address Whalley?  If so that seems to be under Clitheroe registration district.
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: northern_rose on Thursday 29 April 21 18:21 BST (UK)
Just to conclude Winfred's story and the thread - her death certificate arrived today and she died at Brockhall rather than Calderstones but a similar institution.
Title: Re: Darwen - Learning Disability Home 1941?
Post by: northern_rose on Friday 07 May 21 21:58 BST (UK)
Just adding another twist to this - I have now found her brother in Calderstones in 1939! He died there in 1942 and is buried in the Hospital Cemetery.