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Durham Lookup Requests / Re: M Spooner RMS Empress of Ireland disaster
« on: Monday 08 October 18 12:03 BST (UK)  »
Swanandprasad  - I've only just discovered rootschat and this post is a couple of years old so you may have already got your answer.  Ralph Spooner married Mary Smith 21 Jun 1906 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  Do you have a copy of the Empress of Ireland Passenger list?  I have it if you don't.  I believe from other posts of yours you are descended from Jane Ann Spooner who is my 4th great aunt.  I am descended from her brother Ralph 1815 and his son George 1837.  His son George 1874 - 1940 was my great grandfather and he travelled on the Empress of Ireland in 1911 to work for a few months at the mines at Nanaimo, Vancouver.  I presume we are cousins.
Regards
Dawn

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The Common Room / Re: Woolaston house Newport - workhouse?
« on: Wednesday 03 October 18 23:05 BST (UK)  »
Lisa - That was a good find.  The 1938 Johns' does not list my ancestor and his address was operating as a Chemists.  However in the 1946 Johns' which is 3 years after he died, (leaving £250 to his brother), it lists this address in his name as a greengrocer and confectioner.  Possibly his brother ran the shop or the premises hadn't been re-let by 1946.

As for Woolaston infirmary, from what I have read it was still part of the Workhouse complex until the 1930s when workhouses were re-badged as "Public Assistance Institutions" run by the local council until absorbed into the NHS when it was formed in 1948.  Regards Dawn

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The Common Room / Re: Woolaston house Newport - workhouse?
« on: Wednesday 03 October 18 15:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi.  I have a similar situation - a relative who died in 1943 Woolaston infirmary with address given as Commercial Road Newport which is very nearby.  He had a history of habitual petty larceny using his own name and aliases. I suspect he was using one of his aliases to obtain entry to the various "Casual Wards" for vagrants in Monmouthshire.  The dates seem to fit well with his dates of imprisonment.  I am speculating that maybe his address may have had something to do with the infirmary for which the address is 131 Stow Hill or with the Casual ward was at 67-69 Stow Hill.  Do you know where Emelyn Terrace was?  I can only find Emlyn Street on Google Maps.  Regards, Dawn

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