Death at 76 Eridge Road ~ Croydon?

[Mark1973]

Just got my Ggggg Grandfathers death certificate through today, same address, so thank you from another happy researcher

[dottie58]

I also have an ancestor Edward Green who died here in 1929 aged 90 years old... I was googling his death address, as I also had two addressess on the death certificate..

Couldn't believe my luck when this post came up.....

Thank you to everyone who was contributed with information here.....

dottie

[Carley]

I too have the same address on a birth certificate received today for a birth in 1908.

The birth address is 76 Eridge Road, and the mother is shown as a domestic servant at 9 Naseby Road, Upper Norwood. No father's name appears for the baby though.

Does anyone know when official adoptions came into being in the uk at all? This child travelled to Australia in 1912 by a different surname, and she has been my brick wall for a number of years!

Thanks everyone for answers to questions, and I too found this site from a Google for 76 Eridge Road, so feel very lucky that others were also looking for it.  Thanks again and kind regards to all from Carley

[Valda]

Hi Carley

Official adoptions began in 1927

Regards

Valda

[Carley]

Thank you Valda, very much appreciated.  Regards from Carley

[therocketteers]

I have received a birth cert for a lady born at 60 Eridge road, and her mother a dom sev elsewhere. Can I assume that 60 was part of the same row of buildings?
The informant though was Reginald W Wilson, who I have found to be the Infirmaries Superintendant.
Why would this be, 4 weeks after the birth? Would the mother have been ill? She too was a lone parent and in 1911 they were living with someone else and the child took his name.
I want to know why she had not registered her herself? could she have been too ill and if so will there be records?

[yashka]

Hi everyone! Googled, as you do, 76 Eridge Road, Croydon looking for my mother's birthplace, (5th June 1934) but it seems this was a euphemism for the workhouse infirmary - is this true? And if it is, does that mean my grandmother, Mary Anne O'regan (or Parsons, or even maiden name Johnson) would have been a resident, or was this used as a hospital for locals? And if she was, are their any records still held? Actually, I'm trying to trace my mother's real father, given as John Parsons, according to her birth certificate who worked at the Omnibus Garage and lived at 34 Fairholme Rd, Croydon. I don't think they were actually married though...can anyone help me through the mire?! Thanks, Dom.

[Valda]

Hi yaska

Welcome to Rootschat

Like many workhouse union infirmaries

'The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948, and now operates as the Mayday Hospital. Many of the original infirmary structures survive.'

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

Mayday Hospital is the main hospital in Croydon.

See my previous post for the link to Croydon local studies library where Croydon workhouse and infirmary records are held.

Regards

Valda

[yashka]

Thanks for that Valda. My mother was born in 1934. Would her mother had to have been living there in the workhouse? I'll follow up the links you suggested. Many thanks!!!! Dom