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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Leicestershire => Topic started by: byott on Saturday 13 August 05 12:16 BST (UK)
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Hello All.
I'm still looking for Home of Recovery , Barrow upon soar Rothley. Leicester
During world war one. My G G Uncle was sent there after being in the war for over 3 years he was suffering from shell shock very bad. & was sent back to England from the front line.
Only just over 3 months later he committed suicide at the above home. I have the death certificate. His wife lived in London at the time. Yet i could not understand why he was sent to Leicester. Maybe some one can shed some light ??
I would just like to find out abit about the home or building. It could have been a workhouse & part being used as a hospital.
Is there any one who could please check any papers for that time for suicides it was feb 1919. I now live in Australia.
I would so much like to find out as we are doing our family tree. & i feel i know so much about my uncle now. I am in the process of getting his name commorated on the CWCG. as it had been left off in error. & his name was misspelt.
His name is Fredrick Charles BYOTT.
I now live in Australia. Thank you Sandra
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Hi Sandra,
I'm sorry I don't have the answer for you, but there is a Barrow-upon-Soar online newspaper, with some local historians who might be able to help:
http://www.barrowvoice.co.uk/spring_2005/old_barrow.html
Barrow and Rothley are two separate villages, about four and a half miles apart--does the certificate give both village names?
:-)
Alison
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Hi Sandra,
I'm sorry I don't have the answer for you, but there is a Barrow-upon-Soar online newspaper, with some local historians who might be able to help:
http://www.barrowvoice.co.uk/spring_2005/old_barrow.html
Barrow and Rothley are two separate villages, about four and a half miles apart--does the certificate give both village names?
:-)
Alison
Hello Aliston.
Thank you for your reply. On the Death certificate it was
registered In Barrow upon soar.
But Death in the sub district of Rothley .
So maybe i need to check out Rothley ?? Thanks for your links shall try & find out from there.
Just had another look at certificate. & where it saids where died .
Home of Recovery Leicester Frith. Looks like R B underneath cant make that out. So would that still be under Rothley ???
Kind regards Sandra .
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Hi again Sandra,
I just arrived home and opened an envelope from GRO containing a birth certificate... saw the headings... and it struck me: does your death certificate say, "Registration district: Barrow upon Soar", "Sub-district: Rothley"?
If it does, then the Recovery Home was probably NOT in Barrow upon Soar itself--Barrow had its own subdistrict. The Rothley subdistrict covered a large area of Leicestershire, including Woodhouse (where a Cheshire Home is now found, which in the 1960s was a children's convalescence home... don't know about before that), and Belgrave which is now part of the general Leicester urban area.
I did a quick web search, but could not find a Recovery Home just by searching in Leicestershire. Does it give any other indication of the address at all on the certificate?
Another source you might try:
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/
A forum where you can post questions for free about WW1 soldiers
and its parent site: http://1914-1918.org/ where research can be commissioned (but see the "self help" link first).
:-)
Alison
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Our messages crossed in the typing!!! :-)
According to http://www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/REG/lei.htm, Leicester Frith is in the Barrow upon Soar district, so it could well be in the Rothley sub-district.
I think there is a hospital at Leicester Frith... I *think* that today it is a psychiatric hospital (and I seem to remember a young friend at school being taken there after taking an overdose of pills).
Also known as "Groby Rd" hospital, the address is: Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QF
:-)
Alison
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Also known as "Groby Rd" hospital, the address is: Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QF
Hello Alison :)
Thanks so much for your reply. yes we both must have been typing the same time !!
There is nothing else on the certificate. or addreses.
just Home of Recovery leicester frith. I have put a number of threads on forums about this hospital but no luck.
maybe i should try and find papers for that time and deaths in leicester. Thanks for your help shall keep looking. keep fingers crossed. Wish at times i was not so far away . ;D
Thank you sandra
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There was a convalescence home around the Swithland area I remember it in the 60's and 70's.
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Hi Sandra,
I emailed the librarian at Groby Road Hospital, Leicester Frith, to ask if it had been known as a Home of Recovery during the First World War. This is the reply (all the information that she had):
"In answer to your question the Ministry of Pensions used Mansion House as a "Home for Neuroasthenics" (shell-shocked soldiers) during what is known as the Great War."
Mansion House is part of the Groby Rd/Leicester Frith hospital. I'm sure this is the place you are looking for.
Best regards,
Alison
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"In answer to your question the Ministry of Pensions used Mansion House as a "Home for Neuroasthenics" (shell-shocked soldiers) during what is known as the Great War."
Mansion House is part of the Groby Rd/Leicester Frith hospital. I'm sure this is the place you are looking for.
Hi Alison ;D
Would very much like to thank you in the trouble you took in helping me :D It really is so very nice of you. & i really do thank you !!!
Sounds like it is the place at Mansion House Groby rd Leicester. As it was used for shell shock victims Then. I shall look it up on the map. & see if i can find out any more.
Once again i have been searching high & low for this Home. So you have been a really great help. Thank you so much. Its so lovely of you to have done this.
Best wishes & kind regards Sandra ;D ;D ;D YIPPEE
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Hi
If it was part of Groby Road Hospital it isnt there now its a housing Estate. If you are looking on map it was next to Gilrose Cemetery.There used to be a Glen frith on groby road but this is part of Glenfield Hospital now
Bev
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Hi
If it was part of Groby Road Hospital it isnt there now its a housing Estate. If you are looking on map it was next to Gilrose Cemetery.There used to be a Glen frith on groby road but this is part of Glenfield Hospital now
Bev
Hi Beverley.
Thanks for that. Would you know of any links to any old photos of the hospital i could see.
Thank you sandra
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Hi
No im sorry but if you ask mike who comes on this thread he might know of where you can go to find photos
Bev
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Hi
No im sorry but if you ask mike who comes on this thread he might know of where you can go to find photos
Bev
Hello Bev.
Thank you. Shall keep eye out.
Sandra
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You may want to try the Leicester Mercury for photos
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You may want to try the Leicester Mercury for photos
Hi Angiem.
Thank you. I shall write to them . As i now live in Australia. From England.
Thank you sandra
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Hi I have a site which you may find interesting.
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/rothley
May help you, and in the search bar on the right you can search for what you want.
good luck
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sandra,did you know that lance corporal william,john byott was fredericks cousin.
details.
lance corporal william,john byott
6th east lancs regt
17090
age 22
born.kennington
lived.kennington
enlisted,southwark
son of george,james+eliza byott,55princes square,kennington,london
hes listed as dying of wound at gallipoli,he actually died of wounds at alexandria,egypt of wounds recieved at gallipoli
buried alexandria[chatby] military+war memorial cemetary
grave ref.J.25
date of death,20-8-1915
his father was the brother of fredericks father.
this soldier could be fredericks youngest brother alfred
pte a byott
22nd london regt
1473
then transferred to the essex regt,No49157
mack
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Anyone still interested in this thread? I work at the hospital and have a lot of its history.