1851- Indexed Institutions of London

[Cougar]

1851 ROYAL HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM
ST GEORGE THE MARTYR
ALL LISTED AS CRIMINAL LUNATIC.

BRADEY MARTHA /U//24/SERVANT/MDX/N K
BUNOWN ELIZABETH /MAR//73/Publicans wife/STS/Newcastle under Lyne
BYROM ANN /U//48/MARKET WOMAN///IRL
CLARKE ANN /WIDOW//55/WEAVERS WIDOW/N K
CLARKE ELIZA/  /MAR//29/?? WIFE/N K/N K
DARIEN LUCY /MAR//61/?? WIFE/WOR/STOURBRIDGE/
DICKINSON SARAH/WID/42/PUBLICANS WIDOW/SSX/SILLINGTON
DRAKE SARAH /U//37/COOK/NTT/NORTH LEVERTON?
HILL SARAH /MAR//34/HAWKERS WIFE
JACKSON SARAH /WIDOW//42/GUNMAKERS WIDOW/MDX/LONDON/
N K ELIZA /U//26/Carpenters Daughter & NEEDLEWOMAN/MDX/N K
N K/N K/ /U//62/PAUPER///IRL/
OGDEN MARY ANN/ / /MAR//30/WIFE OF A CLERK PORTER?/HRT/N K
SANDERSON N K/ / MAR//30/BOOKSELLERS WIFE/HAM/GOSPORT
SCOTDARE ELIZABETH/ / /MAR//42/LABOURERS WIFE/SRY/FRIMLEY
SCUFFAN ANN /U//28/SERVANT/STS/WALSALL
SMART CATHARINE/WID/71/Cloth Manufac/WOR/STOURBRIDGE/
SMITH HANNAH/ / /WIDOW//56/CARRIERS WIDOW/STS/DARLASTON/
SMITH MARY /MAR//51/WASHERWOMAN///SCT/

[Roger Griffiths]

Hi Cougar,

Depends on your viewpoint. Queen Victoria was a Guelph of Hanover. If the Hanoverian's had not the Salic Law, she would have been Queen of Hanover and therefore Her Hanoverian Majesty as well as Her Britannic Majesty as had been her forebears William IV, George IV, George III. Bit embarrassing in 1914. George II and George I were Electors of Hanover, and for that matter George III for a while.

Of course, Kaiser Wilhelm II was Queen Victoria's grandson, mother, Victoria's daughter Vicky, Queen of King Frederick III King of Prussia. She had herself buried naked in a Union Jack. Wilhelm II was often in UK strutting about in his Death Heads Hussar uniform amongst others, visiting grandmama. Later, at least one other member of the family wore a black uniform with deaths head insignia but that's another matter.   

Strange, the RAF bombed the hell out of Hamburg. My Fathers brothers last bombing mission was over Coburg (Prince Albert) 10/11 August 1940. They got him on the way back over Holland.

Roger

[Cougar]

British lying in hospital
St Giles in the Fields 1851
Ref 1508 page 220/221
Ditchman, Mary A 30, widow, matron
Barnes, Harriet, 25, widow, servant
Edwards, Jane, 45, u, nurse
Wans, Ellen, 23, u, cook
Mattox, Jane, 20 u, laundry maid
Dartnell, Emma, 23, u, housemaid
Lambourn, Arnold E, 14, u, errand boy
Kenneth, Juliet M, 36, patient, dressmaker & female child 9 days
Mason, Mary Ann, 27, wife of porter & male child, James, 12 days
Whelan, Catherine, 19 patient, shoemakers wife
Bryan, Mary, 23 patient, wife of sailor
Warren, Ann, 28 patient
Batt, Maria, 31 patient ? painters? Wife and male child 4 days
Pritchard, Martha, 33 patient & female child 3 days, musicians wife
Mullins, Catherine, 35, patient & Mary 3 days, wife of fishing maker ?
Trett, Mary, 27, patient & female child 1 day, wife of waiter

[Cougar]

1851  TOWER OF LONDON//GARRISON OF THE TOWER OF LONDON
BRADIN?/WILLIAM/U/22///TYR/CLOCHER/IRL
BRE GEORGE/ U/21////DRUMROE?/IRL
BREADIN/GEORGE/U/21///TYR/CLOGHER/IRL
CAFFERY/JAMES/U/22/////IRL
CALUM HUGH M/U/20///INV//SCT
CHISHOLM/GEORGE/U/18///KILLARTILY?/INV
COOPER JAMES/U/29///STS/NEWCASTLE
FAIRFORD JOHN/U/28///LEC/ST MARGARET
FALLOON?/MEREDITH/ U/27///ANT/CARRICKFERGUS/IRL
FOSTER WILLIAM/ U/20///FERMARGARNA?//IRL
GRANT HUGH/ U/20////KILMORATH/SCT
JOHNSON WILLIAM/U/21/////IRL
MARTIN RICHARD/U/21///NTH/EASTON
MCDONALD JOHN/U/28///INV/FORT GEORGE
MCISAAC/WILLIAM/U/22///PER//SCT
MCKAY KENETH/U/20///INV//SCT
MCKAY THOMAS/U/25///ANT/CARRICKFERGUS/IRL
MCKENZIE ALEXANDER/U/29///INV//SCT
RED/GEORGE/ U/21//SOLDIER/ABD/N K
WHITE THOMAS/U/29///LEC/ST MARGARETS

[Rollingstone]

Now - would that have been a good or a bad thing to do one wonders?
My goodness you know your history.
Cougar

Methinks Roger has read Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey - which was an A level set book in English Literature in 1960-62 ....  which makes him aged 61-62 now.  Am I right?  Thank you, Cougar, for all the transcriptions

[Cougar]

What a worry it is when 'what we have read' can give away our age.
Thankfully it wasn't something on our curriculum - so my 'dotage' is still intact.
You are welcome - and hope they have been of some help.
Cougar

[Eilleen]

Cougar , what a labour of love, none of mine are there, but it still made interesting reading, thankyou.   from Eileen.

[ChristineT]

Hi Cougar

Do you know anything about The House of Mercy, Highgate?

I have an birthday book, left to me by an aunt.  In it there is
an entry on 19 January 1905 saying"Came to House of Mercy Highgate as Matron".  Whoever this was, it was not my late aunt, or as far as I know any other relative.

I have reason to believe that the birthday book belonged to an Eliza Ellen Dunaway, although I can't find any connection between her and my family.

The search I've made on the web doesn't come up with much about the House of Mercy.

I would be interested to hear anything else that you can find out.

Thanks and regards

Christine

[Cougar]

Hi Christine,
OK - here are a few bits and pieces.  There seem to be records around for the House of Mercy - so you may be able to find out who this person was.  I gather you don't have her name??

Your best bet will be to 
Send an email to the Archivist,  Richard  Knight
Local Studies and Archives Manager
Holborn Library
32-38 Theobalds Road
London
WC1X 8PA

Highgate Library: - email to (as I have it below) :
send camden local studies and archives centre your enquiry

also the Guildhall hold this manuscript.

LONDON DIOCESAN PENITENTIARY, of Park house, Highgate, established in 1854 for the "reception and reformation of fallen women". Taken over in 1900 by the Clewer sisters, and became known at a later date as the House of Mercy. Closed in 1940. 1854-1952. Also deeds from 1732. L 22.86 Ms 18532-


Christina Rossetti was an Associate Sister of Mercy at Highgate Penitentiary which is probably no help to you.........there is an Anglican related report on the net which was done in 2006 - so plenty of data is around.

In North Hill the largest house, and the farthest back from the road, was Park House, which had been converted into a refuge for prostitutes in 1848 and leased as the London Diocesan Penitentiary (later the House of Mercy) in 1855. It had beds for 60 girls in 1877, was taken over by the Clewer Sisters in 1900, and closed in 1940,   From: 'Hornsey, including Highgate: Highgate', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate (1980), pp. 122-135. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22519. Date accessed: 26 February 2008.

Let me know how you get on with the archivist - think he will probably be the best one to help you.
Cougar