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Workhouse query
« on: Sunday 01 January 17 15:15 GMT (UK) »
I have a possible sighting of a relative in the City Road workhouse. The record gives an admission date of 12th August 1910 and discharge the following day to "Archway".

Does anyone have an explanation for "Archway"?

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Re: Workhouse query
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 01 January 17 15:23 GMT (UK) »
It may have referred to the Archway Infirmary in Highgate.

See http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Holborn/ and scroll down a short distance.
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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 01 January 17 16:19 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks Carol.

It seems he was just transferred from one workhouse to another. I wonder why.

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« Reply #3 on: Sunday 01 January 17 16:26 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Retriever on Sunday 01 January 17 16:19 GMT (UK)
Many thanks Carol.

It seems he was just transferred from one workhouse to another. I wonder why.

An infirmary is a hospital,so maybe he was ill?

Just a thought  :)

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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 01 January 17 16:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi Carol

I should have made myself clearer. I had wondered if Archway was a specialist unit and that is why he was transferred.

From the records it looks like he was sent from City Road to Archway and they promptly sent him back! Well they did keep him in overnight.

Then City Road seem to have had him from 13th August until 11th October 1910. All that appears in the final column is what looks like OR. Any ideas?



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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 01 January 17 17:03 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Retriever on Sunday 01 January 17 16:58 GMT (UK)
Hi Carol

I should have made myself clearer. I had wondered if Archway was a specialist unit and that is why he was transferred.

From the records it looks like he was sent from City Road to Archway and they promptly sent him back! Well they did keep him in overnight.

Then City Road seem to have had him from 13th August until 11th October 1910. All that appears in the final column is what looks like OR. Any ideas?

Can you give us his name/date please Retriever,so much easier to work out if we can view it ourselves.
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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 01 January 17 17:06 GMT (UK) »
It was absolutely standard practice for people to be transferred between institutions (schools, workhouses, infirmaries) within the same poor law union, as was appropriate for the pauper or convenient for the authorities.

OR = (Discharged at) Own Request.

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 01 January 17 17:44 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that Bookbox. I should have realised OR meant own request.

Carol, his name is Edward Parker born 1882. Three entries in the workhouse records on Ancestry.

I have been trying to find his death for what seems like forever, hence trawling the workhouse records. I'm not even sure if this is him as there is an s presumably for single and he was married although I think he and his wife had gone their separate ways by then.

This post was just a general query re the reference to Archway. I think I have his wife discharged from St Johns Road workhouse to the Female Lock hospital in 1907 though I cant find an admittance record so I did wonder about Archway.

I have another thread re my quest to find out what happened to Edward and it is all very complicated.

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