Hi Dave The workhouse was often the nearest or only form of infirmary available to people, they were not all destitute, many well off met their end there Have you checked for a will? You didn't give a name or I could have checked for you Re the Derby Workhouse http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Derby/ Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 04/12/2012 11:22, Dave Loydall wrote: > Can anyone please help me out. I was looking at the burial deatils of my > great grandmother who died in 1910. It stated that her place of death was > the Workhouse. By this I take it to mean what eventually became the Manor > Hospital in Derby. > My surprise was that the family seemed to be fairly well-off at the time and > although she was a widow, the 1901 census shows that she had a house servant > and was living with her 4 children aged between 18 and 9 years. > The question is when did the Workhouse become a hospital. > > Dave Loydall