Harriet Levy - Medway Poor Law union

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Could someone please have a look at the records for Harriet Levy in the Medway Poor law Union collection on Ancestry? She is one of my brick walls, as i can't find her after appearing in the workhouse in 1881. There are 2 records showing, one for her admission and the other for her departure. All info would be gratefully appreciated.

Many thanks

[Merry]

I'm afraid I could only find one entry:

Name: Levy Harriet
Calling: servant
Religious Persuasion: Dissenter
When born: 1819
Class for diet: 6 (will see if it says what that is afterwards)
Parish from which admitted: Chatham

The date part of the page isn't filled in, but the transcription says it's:

Admission Date: 1881-1883

[Merry]

I've found three more entries now I'm using Levey.

[Merry]

The discharge entry says she died 22 Nov 1891.

[Merry]

A second discharge entry says she was aged 77 and buried by friends.

[Merry]

The fourth entry is just another (undated) version of the admission only this time they say she was born in 1818!

[Merry]

Not getting anywhere with class for diet.

[Merry]

Death reg has a different age!


Deaths Dec 1891
Lovey Harriet 70 Medway 2a 364

[Merry]

Ancestry 1891 spelling!

Harriett Leroy (@ Medway Union Workhouse, aged 73 widow b Chatham Kent no occ listed.)

[Mary from Italy]

Workhouse diet classes:

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/life/food.shtml

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Thank you Merry that is fantastic! Her age seems to vary greatly as does the spelling of her surname. I have her baptism in May 1822, which fits with the burial age. I will have to have a look on City Ark site, to see if I can find her burial.

Thanks Mary for that link, although the diet class 6 is for children from that list

[Mary from Italy]

Yes, as it says in the link, that table applied after 1900, but at least it gives you an idea of what the various diets were like.

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Thanks Mary. Very few burials listed in Chatham unfortunately :(

[Merry]

On the admissions page where Harriet had diet class 6, all the other people admitted were older women and they all had the same diet class, except for a couple that were not filled in.

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

It must have been the class for older women then. Sad that she died in the workhouse, her son was working as a messenger in the Admiralty when she died and one of her other sons was able to afford a servant, shame they couldn't have taken her in.

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Taken advantage of Ancestry's free weekend, to get the images and have ordered the death cert. Thanks Merry :)