Thanks Anne, both those children would have been of school age then, another CD to buy maybe. I have sent for Mary death certificate to see where she died, Free BMD states it to be Boston RD, so if they are not in the minutes, that means that Union did not deal with them, just trying to get my head around it. I know you deal with this all the time. John > From: duncalf@one-name.org > To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 17:15:49 +0100 > Subject: Re: [LIN] Pareents die leaving children as orphans > > Annie and George aged 6 and 4 if I remember rightly, and only in for 4 days > - the school admission/discharge books are on the Boston Workhouse Part 1 > CD. So are all the minutes, but there were no Beldings mentioned in them! > > Anne > > Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > > Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > > http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > > Lincolnshire Family History Society > > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > > > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John redders > Sent: 02 April 2012 17:00 > To: Eng Lincs > Subject: Re: [LIN] Pareents die leaving children as orphans > > > Thank you Anne, that's interesting about the children in the workhouse > school, I wonder who they were? Shame about there not being any minutes to > look at, but at least it confirms that the family were in Boston in > 1866.It's often difficult to search the Belding surname, so many wrong > transcriptions, almost as bad as someone who cant spell parents! > The records of the Poor law Commissioners would be at Kew? > > > John > > > From: duncalf@one-name.org > > To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com > > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:02:02 +0100 > > Subject: Re: [LIN] Pareents die leaving children as orphans > > > > Two Belding children are in the Boston workhouse school in 1866, taken > > out by their mother. There is no mention of them in the minutes, not > > under "Belding", anyway. > > > > What should have happened is that the Relieving Officer of the > > district where they lived would have reported their case to the Union > > in which they resided, a decision about what to do with them would > > have been made, and the unions relative to their settlements would > > have been contacted. Therefore you have a chance of finding something > > in the minutes, or perhaps other records, of the Union in which they > > were living at the time, and in the minutes or other records of the > > Unions to which they were sent. There is no correspondence for Boston > > Union for that time period, but there may be something at London in > > the correspondence sent by the Poor Law Commissioners. > > > > Whatever, it would have been for the Guardians of the Union in which > > they resided to make the initial enquiries. The parish officers would > > simply have done what they were told. > > > > Anne > > > > Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > > > > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > > > > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > > > > Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > > > > http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > > > > Lincolnshire Family History Society > > > > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > > [mailto:eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John redders > > Sent: 02 April 2012 14:09 > > To: Eng Lincs > > Subject: [LIN] Pareents die leaving children as orphans > > > > > > On 3rd February 1866, John Walker Belding died in Newington, Surrey, > > and in December quarter of that same year, Mary Belding, his wife > > died, leaving 8 children as orphans. > > So what would happen to the children if grandparents/family weren't > > able to care for them. I suppose it was the parish in where they were > > living at the time, or was it the parish in which they were born? > > According to the census of 1871, Prior Aylward Belding, born 1864 in > > Newington, Surrey was in an orphanage, the Spurgeon Orphanage in > > Clapham, his brother William born St Luke, Middlesex, was in an > > orphanage in Bristol, brother George born Boston, well I can't find > > him in 1871, the other children were in Boston. > > Where would I find records of such decisions, if there any? > > > > > > > > John Readman > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Her death isn't in the Boston Workhouse death registers, 1866 is covered but not yet on FMP as I have to have all the early deaths checked again. They've been messed about with on my computer and I can't be certain that some of them haven't been corrupted. There are several Beldings on the 1813-1900 Burials CD Vol 5 - all at Long Sutton or Tydd, but not Mary. Perhaps she will turn up in the Boston Cemetery Burials - these are being compiled at the moment but it will be some time before they are published. They are available on microfiche but we are re-checking and adding extra information for the CD. Aha! I just looked at Holbeach Workhouse Minutes vol. 3 where there is mention in 1862 of a William Belding, orphan (an orphan only had to have lost one parent) and an orphanage in Bristol! But that is the only mention of Belding in the whole book. Nothing at all in volumes 2 or 4. In fact, there are quite a few references to the "New Orphan Houses" Ashley Down Bristol in the book. They seem to be sending more than one child there. Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk