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[tiggi]

Hi everyone Found this Census 1891 looks like right family :
1891 Census Overbury  Tewkesbury Worcestershire RG12-2050-125p14
97 La-Loo Hilltop
Charles Attwood         27 b 1864 Com ?? Worcestershire
Harriett                        28 b 1863 Repple Worcestershire
Alice Bubb                    7 b 1884 Tewkesbury                         ( Step-daughter)
Ellen                              2 b 1889 Conderton Worcestershire
Florence L                     1 b 1890 Overbury Worcestershire

[tiggi]

Catone
Hi do you think Charles attwood might be registered under that for his death ? Callwood ?

[CatOne]

I think its just a mistranscription, looks like Attwood to me (with a strange little circle at the top of the A) 

Finding his death probably means trawling through each quarter in the indexes, couldn't see him 1909 -1911 

[tiggi]

There is a few people looking for ancestors like yourself who went via worcester Union
I found this message not to do with your family but might give you info for research :
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jan@rossbret.co.uk
Listmom: UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP
http://www.workhouses.co.uk
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Peters" <gpeters@graduates.iti.com>
To: <UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:43 PM
Subject: [UK-W&H] Worcester Union / Union Cottage Homes, Midland
Road,Worcester


> I am new to the list, and would like to ask members about the following.
My grandfather , William John Peters was born in 1896 - 1897 in Worcester,
Worchestershire (supposedly.) The only concrete information we have on him
was that he entered the Middlemore Homes in Birmingham in May, 1911, and was
immediately shipped to Canada as a Home Child. A very kind soul in Winnipeg,
Manitoba found the following info on a microfilm. He apparently was with the
Worcester Union, and was examined in the Union Cottage HOmes in Worcester.
> Geoffrey Peters
REPLY :
Unfortunately, records for Worcester are quite patchy, and it might take
some digging to find small pieces of information.
You know that he was in Worcester Union prior to May 1911 and possibly for
some time before that.
Worcester Union have Creed registers for this time, which can sometimes
produce information, such as Name, Date of Birth, Details of Admission,
Creed (religion) and occasionally previous address and next of kin. This
might possibly be your starting point.
They are held by Worcester Record Office, at
County Hall, Spetchley Road, Worcester. WR5 2NP
http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/records/

They can also give you details as to location and building of the Cottage
Homes (possibly O.S. maps).

Although a little outside your time frame I thought I would mention a book
that is available:
Workhouse Children: Infant and Child Paupers under the Worcestershire Poor
Law 1780-1871, by Frank Crompton, Sutton Publishing Sept 1998.
ISBN Hardback 0750912812; Paperback 0750914297
(I have not read this book yet, and cannot vouch for the content)

[KarenM]

According to the Middlemore Index, Beatrice May Attwood was sent to New Brunswick, Canada and her sister Louisa Nova Scotia, Canada

http://www.bifhsgo.ca/special_projects/home_children/Middlemore-Index/A-Index.htm


Karen

[toni*]

back later whn i've done housework, tea, cut grass and bathed kids and put them to  bed

[brendam]

HI Everyone, just home for work and lots of responses - thank you.

KarenM - Beatrice was sent to NB but ended up in Nova Scotia at some point.  She married and died in Halifax, NS.  Louisa was returned to England.  I do have that record, but couldn't get info from Worcester Union.  I think Louisa died around 1975 (this is not confirmed)


CatOne - I never thought to look under Callwood or any other possible misspelling.  Thanks for that.

Tinav40 - you are right - I should have put the 1900 death beside Harriet not Louisa (shame on me).

NannyJan - the informant on Harriet's death certificate is hard to read.  looks like W.B. Holme, Coronor, for City of Worcester.
 


Thank you to everyone for your responses.  I'll get researching more this evening.

cheers
B

[toni*]

was there an inquest held into Harrietts death? for a coroner to register it?
i wodner if there was foul play?

[toni*]

at Worcester RO

Creator(s):
Church of England, Overbury Parish, Worcestershire


Overbury [in Overbury with Teddington with Alstone and Little Washbourne]

   Parish registers and associated documents

      FILE  [no title] - ref.  850OVERBURY/9031/1/iv  - date: 1795 - 1812
         [from Scope and Content] Note Vol. 4 includes notes on the church bells, part of the pedigree of the Attwood family of Conderton and a plan of the gravestones in the church floor with copies of their inscriptions.