Workhouse Death

[TamaraK]

My 2x great grandmother, Lily Breckon, died on 5 Apr 1899 in the Leeds Union Infirmary. She was buried in the Beckett Street Cemetery on 8 Apr 1899. I ordered a copy of her death certificate and it states that she was the widow of Albert Breckon and lived on 2 High Street. Albert was her husband but I haven't been able to find either him or Lily on the 1891 census or a death record for Albert. It seems they both vanish in 1891, but Lily gives birth to a daughter in Leeds in 1892 and Albert is the father. I have searched for weeks to find either Lily or Albert in 1891 but no luck.

The West Yorkshire Archive Service did a look up for me of her burial record. The address given on the burial record is the Leeds Workhouse. So my question is why was an address given of 2 High Street on her death certificate and an address of the workhouse on her burial record? I believe the Workhouse was located on Beckett Street and not High Street. Am I missing something here?

Any help would be more than appreciated...

Tamara

[Pels.]

Hi Tamara,

Just to help anyone who is searching, is this their marriage :

Marriage, Mar 1889 
Albert Wood Breckin    
Lilly Theresa Carroll     
Leeds, Vol 9b, page 507

Kind regards,

Pels.

[Marmaduke 123]

Hmm, this is tricky.

I can see Albert in 1871 with his mother and brother Ernest, all with his Wood grandparents. In 1881 his mother seems to have remarried, to William Greig, and he is with them at 34 Craven Street Leeds, aged 12, recorded as stepson.

Can't see him or Lily in 1891, but using an address search for High Street Leeds even numbers appear to start at 4. It looks to me as if the enumerator has missed number 2 if it ever existed!

What's the address on the daughters birth certificate?

Anne

[BumbleB]

Not sure of the situation in Leeds, but very often the Infirmary was part of, or attached to, the Workhouse.  It certainly was in Halifax at about this time.

[jksdelver]

Check this link

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/leeds-workhouse-150-year-landmark-1-3202816

[perth tiger]

have you got albert or the daughter in 1901-1911?
did they have any more children besides the daughter and what happened to them?
 

[Milliepede]

When/where was she born - was she a young woman when she died and married young?

[Milliepede]

Is this the same marriage? 


Name:
Lilly Theresa Carroll

Birth Year:
abt 1871

Age:
18

Marriage or Bann Date:
20 Jan 1889

Parish:
Leeds, St Andrew

Father's Name:
John Carroll

Spouse's Name:
Albert Woodbridge*

Spouse's Father's Name:
Ernest Woodbridge*

[Milliepede]

What is the name of the daughter born in 1892?

Is it this one?


Name:
Florence Brecken

Parish:
Leeds Industrial Schools, St James Hospital

Baptism Date:
11 May 1892

Father's Name:
Brecken

Mother's Name:
Lily Brecken