Woolaston house Newport - workhouse?

[lisalucie]

Hi all, I just got my 3x great nans death certificate through and as expected she died of cirrhosis of the liver (after many many years of being a drinker!).
Anyway the place of death is woolaston house in Newport monmonouthshire...but under the occupation part it gives her address "of emelyn terrace Newport". So my question is, as in googling woolaston house it was the workhouse but was it also a hospital, which would make sense as they've listed her actual address?
Also is there any record of this place?
Should add the year was 1930.
Thanks in advance, Lisa

[KGarrad]

What was Woolaston House is now St Woolos Hospital.

Details of Woolaston House, or the Newport Workhouse can be found here:
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Newport/

As you can see, it had an attached Infirmary.

[lisalucie]

Thank you kgarrad...it would seem then that she was in the infirmary as her home address was listed...interesting reading x

[DawnPowell]

Hi.  I have a similar situation - a relative who died in 1943 Woolaston infirmary with address given as Commercial Road Newport which is very nearby.  He had a history of habitual petty larceny using his own name and aliases. I suspect he was using one of his aliases to obtain entry to the various "Casual Wards" for vagrants in Monmouthshire.  The dates seem to fit well with his dates of imprisonment.  I am speculating that maybe his address may have had something to do with the infirmary for which the address is 131 Stow Hill or with the Casual ward was at 67-69 Stow Hill.  Do you know where Emelyn Terrace was?  I can only find Emlyn Street on Google Maps.  Regards, Dawn

[lisalucie]

Hi dawn,
I'm not sure exactly where it was myself neither. However when I google it now I'm getting stuff about the workhouse so I'm thinking now could Emelyn terrace have been "part" of the work house as such?? Hopefully someone with a bit more local knowledge will pick up on the thread.

Lisa 

[lisalucie]

Actually I've just found this -

http://www.newportpast.com/records/directories/johns1946/search.php?road=KINGSWAY

It says that in 1946 llanarth street was formally Emelyn Terrace.
http://newport.streetmapof.co.uk/llanarth-street/

[DawnPowell]

Lisa - That was a good find.  The 1938 Johns' does not list my ancestor and his address was operating as a Chemists.  However in the 1946 Johns' which is 3 years after he died, (leaving £250 to his brother), it lists this address in his name as a greengrocer and confectioner.  Possibly his brother ran the shop or the premises hadn't been re-let by 1946.

As for Woolaston infirmary, from what I have read it was still part of the Workhouse complex until the 1930s when workhouses were re-badged as "Public Assistance Institutions" run by the local council until absorbed into the NHS when it was formed in 1948.  Regards Dawn