1911 census

[joboy]

Sorry for being a very old dunce but I do need some help with this.
My ancestor 'James William Flower' a widower was not with his children in 1911 as they were with their grandparents.
I subsequently found James William Flower and he was in an institution but there is no address on the page (have searched and so have others) and the only reference that I have is on the search page and what is shown is;
FLOWER JAMES WILLIAM (RG14PN577 RG78PN20 RD7 SD3 ED21 SN1).JPG
Can anyone please identify the type of institution and it's address?
Joe

[Nick29]

Sorry for being a very old dunce but I do need some help with this.
My ancestor 'James William Flower' a widower was not with his children in 1911 as they were with their grandparents.
I subsequently found James William Flower and he was in an institution but there is no address on the page (have searched and so have others) and the only reference that I have is on the search page and what is shown is;
FLOWER JAMES WILLIAM (RG14PN577 RG78PN20 RD7 SD3 ED21 SN1).JPG
Can anyone please identify the type of institution and it's address?
Joe

Since it will cost any of us at least £2.70 to view the image you quoted, I don't think you're going to get many takers.  The institution was probably the workhouse, which is where people went for a variety of reasons, the most obvious being in debt and having nowhere else to go, but workhouses also served as hospitals, so he could have been ill.

[Nick29]

We do indeed have a choice,it is whether we contribute to this Companies gross profiteering or not.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.

What is so wrong with companies making a profit in this country ?   Maybe you prefer the ones that don't, like Woolworths and Zavvi  ?

Oh no, wait a minute, they're all closed 

The choice is simple - if you think something is too expensive, or you can't afford it, then don't buy it.  I'd quite like a Mercedes S-class, but I can't afford it, and I don't deride people who can.

[Gadget]

Has anyone observed how quickly the transcription errors are being corrected?

Last Thursday, I reported 5  errors (involving 3 people) on one household transcript of 6 people. I received confirmation on Sunday that my corrections had been accepted and changes would be made. So far this hasn't happened. I realise that there must be masses of such errors to correct but would be interested in hearing from others about the speed of corrections.


Gadget

[Necromancer]

but there is no address on the page (have searched and so have others) and the only reference that I have is on the search page and what is shown is;

Hi Joboy - Paul Caswell loaded up the RG etc refns - see further back in this thread, and Berlin Bob used it and provided a search engine here

http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/reflib-c1911-districts.php

this narrows your search down to Christchurch, St Marylebone - but you will have to wait for the RG78 images to be released in the next phase from FindMyPast.

[avm228]

Has anyone observed how quickly the transcription errors are being corrected?

Last Thursday, I reported 5  errors (involving 3 people) on one household transcript of 6 people. I received confirmation on Sunday that my corrections had been accepted and changes would be made. So far this hasn't happened. I realise that there must be masses of such errors to correct but would be interested in hearing from others about the speed of corrections.


Gadget

I reported a transcription error on the first or second day of the Beta and received reasonably prompt acknowledgment, but it remains uncorrected as at this morning.

Anna

[Koromo]

Hi Joboy - Paul Caswell loaded up the RG etc refns - see further back in this thread, and Berlin Bob used it and provided a search engine here

http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/reflib-c1911-districts.php

this narrows your search down to Christchurch, St Marylebone - but you will have to wait for the RG78 images to be released in the next phase from FindMyPast.

Looking at Christchuch district in St Marylebone in 1901, the entries which were enumerated separately as institutions were:

Salvation Army Shelter: lodging house for men - not registered (Lisson St & Burne St)
Sisters of Mercy convent (11 Harewood Ave, St Johns Wood NW)
The Hotel Great Central (no street name given
Registered Lodging House (James Grant lodg. house keeper) (3,4,5 Little Grove St, Church St)
House Boy Brigade, public institution (146-8 Marylebone Road NW)

... so maybe not in a workhouse.   

K.

[Nick29]

There was a huge workhouse on Marylebone Road / Northumberland Street, which was enlarged in 1901.  It is in the Christchurch district, I believe   

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?StMarylebone/StMarylebone1881.shtml (Click on St Marylebone Union at bottom of page)

[Sloe Gin]

"Institution" sounds so grim and forbidding, one tends to forget about hotels and the like.  (Not to mention royal palaces! )