Hello Tony Better stil, see: - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Chippenham/Chippenham.shtml Adrian Yorkshire l >-- Original Message -- >Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 19:00:56 +0100 >From: adrianp7@tiscali.co.uk >Subject: RE: [ENG-WIL] Two questions about Chippenham - both involving Alice >Mary Freegard (1875-1966) >To: ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com > > >Hello Tony > >It seems that St Andrews Hospital was in Lowden near Chippemha. See:- > >http://www.saint-peters.org.uk/History/history_part_1.htm > >Adrian >Yorkshire > >>-- Original Message -- >>From: "Tony Woodward" <tony.woodward@one-name.org> >>Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 13:19:47 -0400 >>To: ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com >>Reply-To: ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [ENG-WIL] Two questions about Chippenham - both involving Alice >>Mary Freegard (1875-1966) >> >> >>1) I have a reference about Alice Mary Freegard who lived in Chippenham >but >>died in St. Andrew's Hospital. The entry is ambiguous and it's not clear >>if >>this hospital was actually in Chippenham or elsewhere. >> >>So can anyone please tell me what were the hospitals in Chippenham in say >>the 1930s to the 1960s? Since the parish church in Chippenham is St. Andrew >>it's a fairly safe bet but I would like to know for certain. Today's names >>for hospitals only say "regional" or "county" or something similarly generic >>so a Google search was no help. >>I have another entry from 1966 (for her younger sister Lucy, who died later >>the same year) that says "Chippenham District Hospital", and I don't know >>what that was either. >> >>Kelly's 1939 directory for Wiltshire, the latest that I have easy access >>to >>(and where would we be without Archive CD Books?) doesn't mention hospitals >>at all! I can only assume that they were not considered as important as >>the >>"Customs & Excise & Pensions Office", or the public weighbridge at the >>railway station, both of which get a mention! >> >>2) And while I'm digging for information on Chippenham, in the same 1939 >>directory the same "Miss Alice Mary Freegard" is listed as a shopkeeper >at >>35 Palmer St. That was the year before I was born, but can anyone on this >>list, in my generation or older, tell me what kind of shop it was? Was it >>still there after the war? In the 1901 census she was in Wantage, Berkshire, >>listed as "House Furnisher's Assistant". She was then 26, and possibly >>learning a trade. So was the shop in Chippenham a furniture shop or an >>interior decorator's? She was already 64 by 1939, and probably due to retire >>soon, but she lived on until 1966, unmarried and still in Chippenham, and >>she died at the respectable age of 91. Her sister Lucy followed her at >age >>90 a few months later, also in Chippenham. It's possible, even probable, >>that they had set up house together, but I don't know that because the >>addresses at the time of death are different. I know how Alice and Lucy >>fit >>into the Freegard family trees, but I'd like to know what they were doing >>with their lives, because the last reference I have for either of them >>otherwise is in their home village of Dauntsey in 1912, when they each had >>50 or 55 years or the majority of their lives left to live. >> >>Tony Woodward in Ottawa, Canada, >>tony.woodward@one-name.org >>Wiltshire Census Indexes >>FREEG(U)ARD One-Name Study ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Broadband from 14.99 with free setup! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/