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Morning Dawn

Whitfield Place, it's so clear now that you have told me what to look for - thank you. There's an entry a little higher up on the same page in the Creed register also from Whitfield Place.

I am intrigued by something: Elizabeth Biggs, who was in and out of the St Pancras Workhouse on a fairly regular basis from 1870 onwards, was last recorded there in Jan 1885. My next record is in the Whitechapel Infirmary in October of that year where she has my grandfather, Arthur, in Nov 1885.

One month later, she and Arthur (and husband William) are back in the workhouse at St Pancras, coming in from Whitfield Place. I wonder if, having lost four babies in St Pancras, she thought she'd see how things were at Whitechapel. I'm quite taken with the idea but of course will never know.

Thanks to you and Valda for everything


Monica

Morning Dawn

That entry certainly looks promising especially now I know that Highgate Hospital was the North Infirmary of the St Pancras Workhouse network. William Biggs' body could have been moved from the South Infirmary to the North and thence to the cemetery. The age given on the record is wrong by 5 years but that could be explained by dodgy handwriting, etc.

 I have an entry from the 1885 Creed Register for the St Pancras Workhouse that I can't decipher. On 17th Dec. William, Elizabeth and Arthur Biggs are shown as being admitted from ? It looks as though the first word is Whitgate but what the next two bits are I don't know. If I send you the page number for the volume would you have a look if you have time, please. I expect you will have come across a similar entry before.

Many thanks
Monica

Valda, I was thrilled to see the postings you have done on London Burials, feeling sure I would be able to track down my great-grandparents at last.

However, no luck. Do you, or does anyone, know where I can find information on those who died in the St Pancras South Infirmary in 1914 and 1916. William and Elizabeth Biggs were in the St Pancras Workhouse before being moved to and dying in the Infirmary.

regards

Monica

You are right this Mynott comes from Essex. Because of the surname, Neville, I assumed there was a French connection centuries back. Odd that the name as a first name should have been given, in my case, to the eighth child of the family, especially where all the others had good Bibical names.

Nice to hear from you

Can anyone tell me where the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Wootten Basset is, please.