Very interested to read the correspondence about workhouses and similar having been given 'courtesy' addresses. I have researched a family in which the putative father John was living with legal wife Mary, yet claiming parentage to at least four children with separate mothers according to birth certificates. Each of these four mothers has been located in census returns, working in service. Two of the children were certificated as being born at 14 Priory Road in Warwick. Does anyone know anything about this address, a church charity perhaps? I've always assumed the father to have been either a rogue or a saint. -- Joe Connell Firefox & Thunderbird portals Sunbelt & Avast protection

All I can say on workhouse v polite address is that on recent transcribing of burial records at Atherstone (don't all shout, it isn't done by any means yet - we will announce when they are!) we often found the workhouse referred to by its street name and number. Another entry in same period would say "workhouse", but most didn't. Of course, the workhouse often had the only medical facility and some would be there because of illness which begs the question if entries on death certs varied according to the reason someone was at the "workhouse"? Perhaps a subject for a thesis for someone!!!! Jacqui ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe To: warwick@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [WAR] WARWICK Digest, Vol 2, Issue 277 Very interested to read the correspondence about workhouses and similar having been given 'courtesy' addresses. I have researched a family in which the putative father John was living with legal wife Mary, yet claiming parentage to at least four children with separate mothers according to birth certificates. Each of these four mothers has been located in census returns, working in service. Two of the children were certificated as being born at 14 Priory Road in Warwick. Does anyone know anything about this address, a church charity perhaps? I've always assumed the father to have been either a rogue or a saint. -- Joe Connell Firefox & Thunderbird portals Sunbelt & Avast protection ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.16/1004 - Release Date: 12/09/2007 17:22

According to "StreetMap", Priory Road is still there so someone may be able to wander along and tell you whether it looks like a private address or a hospital?? Hope that it not the Police Station! Anne Paling SHEFFIELD, U.K. >From: Joe <j40.public@ntlworld.com> >To: warwick@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WAR] WARWICK Digest, Vol 2, Issue 277 >Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:56:10 +0100 > >Very interested to read the correspondence about workhouses and similar >having been given 'courtesy' addresses. I have researched a family in >which the putative father John was living with legal wife Mary, yet >claiming parentage to at least four children with separate mothers >according to birth certificates. Each of these four mothers has been >located in census returns, working in service. > >Two of the children were certificated as being born at 14 Priory Road in >Warwick. Does anyone know anything about this address, a church charity >perhaps? I've always assumed the father to have been either a rogue or >a saint. > >-- >Joe Connell > >Firefox & Thunderbird portals >Sunbelt & Avast protection > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message