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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 31 August 16 17:35 BST (UK) »
I got an email to say this topic has been moved. Bit confused!


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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 31 August 16 17:38 BST (UK) »
I would be happy to find a death record for Sydney (Sidney) Robert Strong, but can find nothing suitable.
As I can't find him in the 1911 and the latest info is the St. Georges Workhouse/Infirmary in 1904, guess he died between 1904-1911.
Any keen eyed Chatters find anything I overlooked?

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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 31 August 16 20:03 BST (UK) »
I moved it so I could post the image from the Workhouse site as you couldn't access the information yourself. You can't attach images on the look-up request boards.
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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 31 August 16 23:03 BST (UK) »
I would be happy to find a death record for Sydney (Sidney) Robert Strong, but can find nothing suitable.

You might want to consider this one, if you haven't already ...

Jun Qtr 1908
STRONG Sydney, aged 46
Nantwich vol 8a p 203

From the parish register, this man was buried at Nantwich Parish Church from The Union (= workhouse or infirmary) on 6 May 1908.

The problem is that the above death cert may not have enough information for you to identify him as yours (or not), because the informant may be a member of staff. Nantwich workhouse records are at Cheshire Archives, but there doesn't appear to be anything useful there for this enquiry.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Nantwich/#Records

Although this death is out of the expected area, it's a fairly distinctive name, he's about the right age, and it would appear to be the only feasible death-index entry found between 1904 and 1911.


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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 01 September 16 17:17 BST (UK) »
Dear Bookbox,
Many thanks for your information. Fortunately I have a FindMyPast subscription at present and have found the parish burial record. I had previously dismissed this entry before, but new light shows it to be from the Union.
From your experience, is it possible for someone to be moved from London to Nantwich?
Any reason why he was not sent back to Wiltshire, from whence he came?

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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 01 September 16 17:25 BST (UK) »
Just an added note:
Sydney Robert Strong born 2 June 1865, baptised 12 April 1868 at Enford, Wiltshire.

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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 01 September 16 18:13 BST (UK) »
If this is the same man (which is far from certain), I think it would be unwise to assume he was removed under the poor law from Westminster directly to Nantwich. There is a four-year gap between the dates, and he could have been anywhere in the meantime. He may have been in the Fulham Road infirmary only very briefly, and then moved out of the area. He is unlikely to have been in the care of Westminster all that time, because you haven't found another workhouse admission for him in the online records.

I wouldn't be too worried about the age discrepancy in the death index, since his age at death would have been taken from the Nantwich workhouse/infirmary records, which are frequently inaccurate. If you want to chance your hand, you could order the death certificate in the hope that there is something on it (e.g. an occupation) that helps identify him. But you should be aware that there may be nothing conclusive to show for the money spent.

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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #16 on: Friday 02 September 16 10:43 BST (UK) »
I came across this death entry, which although the age doesn't fit the year and area are spot on.
Deaths Mar Qtr. 1905.  Sidney Strong age 66 St. George Hanover Square 1a 315
Does anyone have any burial records for this one, it's not available under my subscription (yet Nantwich was!).
Would be good to find the age 66 is wrong and he was actually 40!

Should I repost this request elsewhere for better coverage?

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Re: St. Georges Union, Fulham Road, Workhouse in London.
« Reply #17 on: Friday 02 September 16 11:42 BST (UK) »
There were almost no burials in churchyards by 1905 so you would be looking for a cemetery burial.

https://www.westminster.gov.uk/cemetery-records

The City of Westminster operates 3, Hanwell is the most likely

https://www.westminster.gov.uk/information-about-westminster-cemeteries

I won't be at Westminster Archives for a few weeks so can't check for you. You could ask Westminster Archives to do a search but as you don't have an exact date of death, they may charge. There were 458 deaths recorded st St Geo Han Sq March 1/4 1905. While not all of them would have been buried at Hanwell, that's still a lot of possible entries in the burial register.
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