Eastville Workhouse Bristol

[Arranroots]

It's even more complicated than I feared, lol! 

So what exactly does Ada's birth cert say?  Surely it gives her mother's name?

Which children were A-M the stepdaughter's with Richard?  There's a gap between those older than Ada on the 1901 census.

So Elizabeth BARTLETT (or LEWIS or what was her maiden name?) disappears at what point?  Did they have any children together?

I guess you might never know who Ada's dad was - and you could go crazy trying to find out, lol!

Still thinking ....

[yesterlady]

My grandmother's birth cert. says mother Annie Smith, no father and she was born only 3 years after Richard's 2nd marriage (to Elizabeth Lewis) and as Elizabeth's age then was 40 and I could find no trace of children it seems possible she was past child bearing age, but ~Richard was not !!!!  he went on to have 13 more children with his 3rd wife but then she was younger than him !!!

The marriage you found in Chard was Richard's first marriage to Anna and was where I got all the info. about her first marriage and the prison officer's demise and her maiden name being Styles.  So you are right unless I can find some other record of grandmother's origin (perhaps parish records at Eastville or even the 1911 census when it comes out, I am stuck but grandmother was a ground breaker; my grandfather had a difficult time trying to control her; she was a nurse in the Spanish Civil War and also a suffragette in Birmingham - she had nothing to reproach herself for; I only wish I could have told her so.  Everything has been so well hidden.

Thanks for your help anyway.  It was only by talking to someone on Ancestry who suggested I had to look laterally for the answer that I even got started.

[Pat Hase]

I think there may be some confusion here.  There were several workhouses in Bristol.  Eastville Workhouse was at 100 Fishponds Road and was a purpose built building. 

The old prison at Stapleton was different workhouse - it later became Manor Park Hospital (now closed).

St Thomas the Apostle Church, Eastville (where my parents were Cub-scout leaders in the 1930s) is not on the roundabout at the end of Eastville Park - that is a non-conformist church - it is lower down Fishponds Road, opposite the bottom of Coombe Road (where I went to school) and is now a Pentecostal Church - Its address is 145 Fishponds Road and postcode is BS5 6PR which you can use to find its location on a map. 

Best wishes
Pat

[yesterlady]

Pat:

Thanks so much; I told a family member yesterday I thought I had come to a full stop but then a message from you.....  I am off and running again.....

[tenninut]

Hi: Have been researching my grandfathers brother and discovered his wife, Clara Maunder, was working at the Crown and Dove pub in Bristol according to the 1901 census. Out of curiosity I Googled the pub and came up with your message about your grandmother Alice Kempshall. You will notice that Clara Maunder worked with your grandmother at the Crown and Dove as servants. Small world, isn't it.  Regards
I would like to see a photo of the Crown and Dove if anyone could guide me to a site. Aparently it was demolished in 1976.

[BEVEN]

I have had marvellous results from Bristol records office, who searched the creed register for Eastville workhouse for me, and came up with four entries for my father. He was admitted at 6mths old, sent to various children's homes, then back to Eastville until final discharge in 1916. For a fee I have copies of the pages in the register showing my father's details. They suggested I contact Bristol children's dept. for further information as the to children's homes who cared for him. I await results.     Having previously been told by Bristol library no records existed, I am more than happy with the results.

[rubetaralph]

Would you please tell me the email address to write to in order to obtain information from the workhouse that was located at 100 Fishponds?

[BEVEN]

Workhouses Stapleton and Eastville were in the Fishponds area. bro@bristol.gov.uk,   e-mail, or address,  B Bond Warehouse, Smeaton Rd. Bristol BS1 6XN would help you. I spoke o a man called Matt Coles, who was marvellous.

[pollyward]

Apparently my Great Grandmother was in the Eastville Workhouse in Bristol, her name was Miriam (or Marion or Meriem) Rosser and she was born on the 21/05/1869 so she was about 42.
she died in 1925-and so I think she was in the workhouse because she was ill, as her husband and younger kids were living as Boarders somewhere else and her two elder girls were in a "girls home" in Bristol, I'd love to know more if anyone has access to any records.....