Genealogy Chat

Christine the website whose address I gave on this thread is concerned with general information about what is on birth, marriage and death certificates, not about finding individuals. I have a few absent husbands on both my tree and my husband's. In a couple of cases I think the men were just away with their work, but I have found one in prison. Give us details of your chap on another thread and perhaps someone will be able to find him for you. nell

can't find little Nell's sugested website, was hoping to find my gggrandfather who is missing fron the 1971 1881 census, although his wife Elizabeth is there and states married, thought perhaps he was away!! somewhere. anymore sugestions Chris in 42oc OZ!!!

Hi Helen, I must be getting old - Barbara's page was one of the first pages to go on my favourites, some years ago, when I first started doing this?? Doh! Never even thought to look there!! Thanks Debbie

From http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm [a brilliant site, add it to your favourites now, you won't regret it!] 'By 1875 the relationship of the informant to the deceased was given - together with additional qualifications such as 'present at the death' or 'in attendance'. People not related to the deceased but present at the death still qualified, but only 'present at the death' would be shown. The occupier (usually the owner) of a house or institution (usually the master of the workhouse) still qualified but in addition the following had been added a person who found the body ****inmate of a house or institution - this was a person living at the same address who knew of the event***** person causing the burial person in charge of the body '

Hi Janet, I hope you may have just cracked it!! I had never realised it was used in this way. Just had a look on the search engine and came up with a couple of instances explaining just that! So maybe I'm back on track - and that she is possibly a relative. Thank you so much Debbie

Have come across inmate in marriage registers for the 1840's and also 1841 census. We looked it up and it meant 'resident'. I don't think workhouses came into effect until a little later. Jay

Hi Joan, Thanks for that - hadn't thought of that one! The thing that is really puzzling me is why the 2 addresses are the same. By definition, whatever she's an inmate of, surely means she lives where ever she is an inmate, not in a domestic house?? Debbie

My 3xgr-grandmother’s death cert shows her as dying at 25 Littletown, Pittington. This was in 1848, the 1841 census shows them living at Littletown, but no house numbers. The informants details are as follows: Eleanor Taylor, INMATE, present at the death, 25 Littletown, Pittington. 3xgr-granny’s maiden name was Taylor, so was rather hoping that Eleanor Taylor was her mother, or at least another relative, but maybe just coincidence. Obviously granny either died at Eleanor Taylor’s house, or more likely, Eleanor was living in the same house as granny, when she died. Eleanor could not have been a prison inmate, or would surely not have been allowed out, even to attend the sick & dying. If she was a workhouse inmate, would they have given her leave to attend a dying peerson? Wouldn’t her ‘residence’ then be .....Workhouse? I am at a loss to as to what to make of this. Can anyone give any other suggestions to the term ‘Inmate’? By the way, there was no workhouse in Pittington, so have ruled out the possibility that they were both in the workhouse, and that it’s address was 25 Littletown. I am desperate to track this Eleanor Taylor further, but there were no Eleanor Taylor’s living in Littletown in 1841 or 1851. Debbie

Any other definitions other than prison or workhouse. See below. Debbie