Hello Folks, I have found an IGI entry for a birth at "Bulchamp House of Industry" but cannot find any other listing of such in the lists of such workhouse , Can anyone help? Phil White in New Hampshire USA Roots on Sussex & IOW
I think this should be "Bulcamp" rather than "Bulchamp". Have a look at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/blything/ Hope this helps. John At 20:33 14/09/2010, you wrote: >Hello Folks, I have found an IGI entry for a birth at "Bulchamp House of >Industry" but cannot find any other listing of such in the lists of such >workhouse , Can anyone help? Phil White in New Hampshire USA Roots on >Sussex & IOW > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Bulcamp House of Industry (Bulcamp Union Workhouse for the Blything Hundred). Bulcamp and Hinton are hamlets to the parish of Blythburgh. I see you have been given a link to Peter's excellent workhouses web site and you will find some more information at Simon's churches web site http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bulcamp.htm Pat ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil White" <pwgrandmapa@comcast.net> > Hello Folks, I have found an IGI entry for a birth at "Bulchamp House of > Industry" but cannot find any other listing of such in the lists of such > workhouse , Can anyone help? Phil White in New Hampshire USA Roots on > Sussex & IOW
Phil This should be Bulcamp. It's a hamlet between Blythburgh and Halesworth. The house of industry was the workhouse for Blything Union. I have seen the spelling Bulchamp before. I think they were influenced by Belchamp in Essex. Dudley -------------------------------------------------- From: "Phil White" <pwgrandmapa@comcast.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:33 PM To: <suffolk@rootsweb.com> Subject: [SFK-UK] Houses of Industry-Suffolk > Hello Folks, I have found an IGI entry for a birth at "Bulchamp House of > Industry" but cannot find any other listing of such in the lists of such > workhouse , Can anyone help? Phil White in New Hampshire USA Roots on > Sussex & IOW > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >