----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: sylvia thomas <boxstaffy@yahoo.com.au> >To: "ENG-SURREY-D-request@rootsweb.com" <ENG-SURREY-D-request@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2012 11:35 AM >Subject: WENMANS OF NEWINGTON > > >Hi Everybody, >First I would like to say I do not have a tree on Ancestry, nor will I ever. But I do subscribe to Lost Cousins and Genesreunited. I am also always willing to share. >I am hoping that someone on the list has connections to Henry WENMAN, he married Sarah HERBERT in 1838. They had 3 children 1 of them died. >He moved on with Georgina Sarah Spaughton and had 8 Children one of whom was my gt. grandmother, Julia Henrietta. Henry and Georgina finally married in 1866 after all but 2 of the children were born. I have followed all 8 children, they all seem to be trying to outdo their father with many children and various marriages or not as the case may be. But there are quite a few unanwered questions with many of them. So if anyone has a connection to them I would be glad to hear from you. Maybe we can fill in some of the answers. >Regards Sylvia in Aus. > >

Hi Sylvia A curious way to start a post I must say :-) The choice of where a researcher puts their tree (if they ever wish to do so of course) is entirely up to the individual Finding researchers looking into the same names on lists is rarely profitable in itself so you may want to post some specific questions on your WENMANs You might also like to check the lists archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ (select mailing lists from the top bar menu) However a search for WENMAN Newingtin finds only a few posts but perhaps worth checking out Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >> Hi Everybody, First I would like to say I do not have a tree on >> Ancestry, nor will I ever. But I do subscribe to Lost Cousins and >> Genesreunited. I am also always willing to share. I am hoping that >> someone on the list has connections to Henry WENMAN, he married >> Sarah HERBERT in 1838. They had 3 children 1 of them died. He moved >> on with Georgina Sarah Spaughton and had 8 Children one of whom was >> my gt. grandmother, Julia Henrietta. Henry and Georgina finally >> married in 1866 after all but 2 of the children were born. I have >> followed all 8 children, they all seem to be trying to outdo their >> father with many children and various marriages or not as the case >> may be. But there are quite a few unanwered questions with many of >> them. So if anyone has a connection to them I would be glad to hear >> from you. Maybe we can fill in some of the answers. Regards Sylvia >> in Aus.

My ggg-grandfather Charles YORK married Charlotte JORDAN, probably around 1828, place unknown. In 1837, his son William's birth certificate was registered by a workhouse clerk. In 1841, he appears in the census as a patient in the Brighton Workhouse Infirmary, birthplace 'outside SSX'. Also in the workhouse were his wife and 3 children, down as paupers. In the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses, Charlotte was still in the workhouse, enumerated as a widow, and nurse in the infirmary/hospital. I've now discovered that Charles died of epilepsy in 1846, in Bethnal Green Lunatic Asylum, which raises some questions: Why Bethnal Green, if he had been in the Brighton Workhouse for 4 years? Was it the nearest treatment centre? There seem to have been no effective treatments for epilepsy before 1875. Was he just maybe transferred to his parish of settlement? I'm assuming here that the epilepsy was the reason for his internment in the first place. I have read on an un-sourced site that suggest epileptics were kept apart from other mental patients, as the epilepsy was considered contagious. I'd appreciate any insight as to why he died far apart from his family, an suggestions for a good read on the subject, and of course, if anyone has a link to the family. -- Regards Dave