Hello all. New to the message board.......My name is Bob Pieterse and I live in FL, USA.. I am trying to help a friend on her Clark ancestors from Butcombe, Somerset, England..........My friends Great grandfather was Jeremish Clark. I have his deth record from the BMD denoting his passong in the Jan thru Mar time frame in 1871.....Another peron had a cemetery listing and said his death date was Jan 1 oe 3 of that year.......So far o good. He is buried at ST Muchaels ad the Angels cenetery... The cemetery listing shows a reference to .Axbridge work house GGoogling the term I found it was associated with inmates. Can anyone shed aylight on what the Axbrudge work house was........ Thanks in advance. Cheers and regards Bob

Bob, The workhouse served as poor house, hospital, orphanage and retirement home for the under privileged. You can read all about them at http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ If he died in January, Jeremiah Clark wouldn't be on 1871 census. You could check for other family members though. I'd go back to 1861 and 1851 census and see what you can find. It will help identification if you have his age from the BDM death record. Peter

Hi Bob, I've done some research into Axbridge Workhouse and from my records I can see that Jeremiah CLARKE from Butcombe died in Axbridge Workhouse on the 4th Jan 1871 and was subsequently buried in Butcombe on the 6th Jan 1871. The Admission and Discharge Books have not survived for that time but as his age was 86 it is likely that was he was admitted to the Workhouse Infirmary when he became ill. It was the only free hospital serving that area at that time. There are other CLARKEs from Butcombe in the Workhouse records. A death of a Matthew CLARKE aged 74 - 4th March 1864 The birth of three illegitimate children to young women from Butcombe called CLARKE - two of them died as babies and are buried at Butcombe. The records are in the Somerset Heritage Centre at Taunton Hope this helps Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <Rdpiet@aol.com> To: <ENG-SOMERSET@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 3:40 AM Subject: [ENG-SOM] 74 Axbridge Work House > Hello all. New to the message board.......My name is Bob > Pieterse and I live in FL, USA.. > I am trying to help a friend on her Clark ancestors from > Butcombe, Somerset, England..........My friends Great grandfather was > Jeremish Clark. I have his deth record from the BMD denoting > his passong in the Jan thru Mar time frame in 1871.....Another > peron had a cemetery listing and said his death date was Jan > 1 oe > 3 of that year.......So far o good. > He is buried at ST Muchaels ad the Angels cenetery... The > cemetery listing shows a reference to .Axbridge work house > GGoogling the term I found it was associated with inmates. > Can anyone shed aylight on what the Axbrudge work house > was........ > Thanks in advance. > Cheers and regards > Bob > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >