Death in Newent Workhouse - Elizabeth Poyner 1838-1895 (General)

by poytheboy , Sunday, February 20, 2011, 01:21 (5094 days ago) @ poytheboy

Thank you for replies. Ages always seem to be wrong on censuses as I think sometimes people either lied about their age or didn't know. In this case Elizabeth spent at least the last 25 years of her life in the Workhouse. The death in the BMD's quoted is correct for my Elizabeth (1895) but the informant may have gavin the wrong age. She was born in Gloucester City in 1838 as I have her birth certificate and those of her children, plus have found the children's baptisms (both in Taynton). I'll have a good look at the Workhouse site, as it might give me a better understanding as to what happened after her demise. Her father Robert actually also died in the Newent Workhouse aged 79 in 1870, so this may have been why they were there, old aged father, unmarried daughter with 2 children (1870-1871).