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Offline SPlumb

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Seaforth Barracks - death in barracks 1895
« on: Thursday 16 October 14 07:12 BST (UK) »
If a permanent staff member of the Royal Artillery, based in Seaforth barracks Liverpool, died of pnuemonia in 1895, where's the most likely place they would have been buried? And what would have happened to their families who lived with them in barracks?

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Re: Seaforth Barracks - death in barracks 1895
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 October 14 16:22 GMT (UK) »
If they were RC then Ford cemetery is the most likely place. There are 4/5 CofE cemeteries within a mile or two.

It might be easier to look for a notice in the local newspaper.

She would have had to move out of the married quarters. There was no widow's pension until a few years later. So if she did not remarry within the regiment she may have ended up in the Workhouse. Although she would get any outstanding pay plus his deferred pay which was 1.5 d for every day he served.

If you post the names and ages of any children I can check to see if they were given a place in the Chelsea Military Asylum. Or send a PM.

Ken
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