Drybrook / Hope Mansell Hospital ?? (General)

by cloviscat , Wednesday, May 01, 2013, 13:03 (4226 days ago) @ slowhands

And can anyone tell me about the hospital?
In Hope Mansell / Drybrook ?? no.
Possibly the Workhouse / hospital in Ross ?
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=18248

I've found the piece of paper with my father's notes from the conversation.

"Died in Drybrook - possible Hope Mansel Hospital - outskirts of Forest of Dean. Had been a Governor of Hospital (possible plaque)... Was Hospital Matron."

But you've kundly been able to confirm for me that there is no Hope Mansel Hospital - I'd suspected that. But the workhouse in Ross seems to have been still a workhouse proper until in closed in 1930. Certainly on the 1911 census its residents are inmates - elderly 'imbeciles', etc. And on the 1911 census Annice is described as a midwife working at home on her own account - It seems a big leap from being a middle-aged home midwife to a hospital governor of a hospital I can't find for certain.

So at the moment I'm not inclined to give much weight to the governor/matron/plaque business without a bit more proof. If it is true, I would imagine there would have been some sort of notice in the local paper? And a grave with an extant stone, perhaps...

cloviscat