Morning John Workhouses were the only form of hospital facility available to many people and a sudden illness or injury could see anyone ending their days in the Union Infirmary The only Wellington street I can see in Dublin on a modern map is quite a way from the location of the NDU but perhaps there was another closer Wellington street at that time No sign of one around the area of the workhouse on the 1798 map of Dublin http://dublin1798.com/dublin09.htm Found at http://mapco.net/britisle.htm In later years a street address was assigned to workhouses to lessen the stigma of events at the workhouse but that does not seem to apply here Who was the informant on the death certificate, informants on events at the workhouse were more often an employee or the workhouse or its master who may not have the full details on the person Hopefully the records you mention may help identify him Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 20/09/2012 04:10, John Warther wrote: > > Hi. I'm revisiting this old post to say that I think it is possible > that I've had Robert FitzGerald's death record all along. There is a > death record for Robert FitzGerald in North Dublin, 11 November 1869. > One of the problems with the record is that it reads he is a > "widower," but actually his wife did not die until the 1890s. > Another problem with the record for my cousins and me is that this > person died at the North Dublin Union Workhouse. > > I'm beginning to think this might really be his death record anyway. > Maybe they wrote down his marital status incorrectly? Also, that > was the area in which he was living at the time. > > Anyway, does anyone have a better understanding of the workhouses. > The death record reads the place of death was "N.D.U., 52 Wellington