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

Workhouses were hospitals as well they weren't just for the destitute Rob -----Original Message----- From: Dave Loydall <dloydall@tiscali.co.uk> To: derbysgen <derbysgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 11:31 am Subject: [DBY] Derby Workhouse 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 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DERBYSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message