Hi all,
I'm very new to this site and I came across it by doing a google search and I've got a few questions to ask about my family in Manchester on where to possibly find records etc but first of all I'm going to just start out with a question to do with my gg grandmother, but to let everyone know that I think that I've got a mystery on my hands in regards to my grandfather's family. Anyway onto my gg grandmother.
Her name was Susannah Mary CUNNINGHAM born 4 Nov 1846 in Isle of Wight Ryde Hampshire England. According to the 1851 census she lived in Carisbrooke Hampshire England. In 1871 she lived in Gorton Lancashire England. She married my gg grandfather John BRODIE (1853-1892) on the 13 Feb 1872 in the Cathedral Manchester. In the years listed below she lived in -
1881 - Hulme
1891 - Chorlton on Medlock
1901 - Salford
1911 - Ancoats
Her death was registered in May 1919 and she was buried on the 15 May 1919 at the Phillips Park Cemetery I consecrated section. I found a copy of the burial register on the Manchester City Council website when I did a genealogy search which I printed and it gives the usual details of the date, name of deceased age etc. The thing I thought was interesting that it listed her abode when she died as the Poorhouse in the parish or district of Cheetham.
So seeing this about the Poorhouse I tried doing searches on Poorhouses in England and basically got information on the Workhouses but nothing about the Poorhouses. Are the Poorhouses the same as the Workhouses? Of course I could be totally doing the wrong type of searches as I'm still learning things to do with family history. Also another thing that I'm getting confused with is how the surburbs work, for example to explain what I mean, I live in Mt Gravatt (surburb) Brisbane (town) Queensland (state) Australia (country). Can I interpret Manchester the same way that is Ancoats is the surburb, Manchester is the town, Lancashire the state and of course England is the country? This probably is a silly question but I don't know much about the UK and I apologise in advance if this seems to be such an obvious question :o
Would anyone know where I could get records of the Poorhouses/Workhouses? I thought that this might give me some clues. I do have other questions to ask about other parts of my Brodie family but thought that I would start with this first as I mentioned above.
Thanks in advance.
Joanne
I'm very new to this site and I came across it by doing a google search and I've got a few questions to ask about my family in Manchester on where to possibly find records etc but first of all I'm going to just start out with a question to do with my gg grandmother, but to let everyone know that I think that I've got a mystery on my hands in regards to my grandfather's family. Anyway onto my gg grandmother.
Her name was Susannah Mary CUNNINGHAM born 4 Nov 1846 in Isle of Wight Ryde Hampshire England. According to the 1851 census she lived in Carisbrooke Hampshire England. In 1871 she lived in Gorton Lancashire England. She married my gg grandfather John BRODIE (1853-1892) on the 13 Feb 1872 in the Cathedral Manchester. In the years listed below she lived in -
1881 - Hulme
1891 - Chorlton on Medlock
1901 - Salford
1911 - Ancoats
Her death was registered in May 1919 and she was buried on the 15 May 1919 at the Phillips Park Cemetery I consecrated section. I found a copy of the burial register on the Manchester City Council website when I did a genealogy search which I printed and it gives the usual details of the date, name of deceased age etc. The thing I thought was interesting that it listed her abode when she died as the Poorhouse in the parish or district of Cheetham.
So seeing this about the Poorhouse I tried doing searches on Poorhouses in England and basically got information on the Workhouses but nothing about the Poorhouses. Are the Poorhouses the same as the Workhouses? Of course I could be totally doing the wrong type of searches as I'm still learning things to do with family history. Also another thing that I'm getting confused with is how the surburbs work, for example to explain what I mean, I live in Mt Gravatt (surburb) Brisbane (town) Queensland (state) Australia (country). Can I interpret Manchester the same way that is Ancoats is the surburb, Manchester is the town, Lancashire the state and of course England is the country? This probably is a silly question but I don't know much about the UK and I apologise in advance if this seems to be such an obvious question :o
Would anyone know where I could get records of the Poorhouses/Workhouses? I thought that this might give me some clues. I do have other questions to ask about other parts of my Brodie family but thought that I would start with this first as I mentioned above.
Thanks in advance.
Joanne
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