Here is the link Sheila was talking about. http://www.curiousfox.com/history_S/eastlothian_4.html On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Frank Curran wrote: > Hi Rhoda > > I found a site Tranent Family History where a load of names are listed. > There is mention of 6 Wedderburn Terrace being a former poorhouse and after > 1930 became Inveresk Institution. > > I would have sent you the link direct but am struggling with this new > computer and Sky e-mail! I have added it to Favourites so can refer to it > for more info. for you. > > Sheila KC > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:20 PM, CandROverson <overson12@btinternet.com>wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have someone in my tree who died of broncho-pneumonia at 6 Wedderburn >> Terrace, Inveresk in 1945. She was 28 and her usual address was Balerno, >> Midlothian. >> >> Does anyone know if this was a hospital or some other similar institution? >> I googled the address but there appears to be a recently built estate of >> private houses there now, quite near the Musselburgh golf course. I did see >> one reference to someone's ancestor dying at that address in 1944 which >> suggests that it may have been a hospital. >> >> Rhoda >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIDLOTHIAN-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 MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks to Sheila and Linda. I googled Inveresk Institution and found this site: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Inveresk/Inveresk.shtml This was just before the National Health Service was introduced in the UK, so I suppose people without much money would have been looked after in institutions such as this. I don't know anything about the history of this distant relative of mine so have no idea whether the poor young woman was chronically sick or a "certified lunatic", or both. I see that that the site was awaiting redevelopment in 2001 which would explain the new housing estate that I saw on the Google walk through. Rhoda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Holley" <ljholley@gmail.com> To: <midlothian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] 6 Wedderburn Terrace, Inveresk, Midlothian 1945 > Here is the link Sheila was talking about. > > http://www.curiousfox.com/history_S/eastlothian_4.html > > > On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Frank Curran wrote: > >> Hi Rhoda >> >> I found a site Tranent Family History where a load of names are listed. >> There is mention of 6 Wedderburn Terrace being a former poorhouse and >> after >> 1930 became Inveresk Institution. >> >> I would have sent you the link direct but am struggling with this new >> computer and Sky e-mail! I have added it to Favourites so can refer to it >> for more info. for you. >> >> Sheila KC