RootsChat.Com

England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Yorkshire (North Riding) => Topic started by: dcsnr on Tuesday 10 May 16 12:45 BST (UK)

Title: A Brother of Firby Hospital
Post by: dcsnr on Tuesday 10 May 16 12:45 BST (UK)

Searching through the Bedale burial parish registers I found several references to "a Brother of Firby Hospital". This comment follows the name of the deceased person.

Does anyone know if this is a religious order, some sort of medical person/profession or an inmate of an institution?

Title: Re: A Brother of Firby Hospital
Post by: avm228 on Tuesday 10 May 16 12:47 BST (UK)

I've no local knowledge, but a Google suggests it's likely to be a reference to the almshouses at Christ's Hospital, Firby - have you looked at that?

Title: Re: A Brother of Firby Hospital
Post by: davidft on Tuesday 10 May 16 12:55 BST (UK)

Sime information in these links

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Bedale/Bedale90.html

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp291-301

Title: Re: A Brother of Firby Hospital
Post by: stanmapstone on Tuesday 10 May 16 13:29 BST (UK)

You can see Firby Hospital Almshouses, which are still there, on the map
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=17&lat=54.2726&lon=-1.5928&layers=171&right=BingHyb

They are a listed building http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-333597-christs-hospital-almshouses-firby-north-
Photograph at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ's_Hospital,_Firby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_84170.jpg

Stan

Title: Re: A Brother of Firby Hospital
Post by: dcsnr on Wednesday 11 May 16 10:03 BST (UK)

Thanks for the replies

Special Thanks to stanmapstone

As well as pictures, one of your links states  'Hospital' is an old word for almshouses so now I can now assume that my relative was probably living in these 'Almshouses' at the time of his death.