More Head Scratching with Abbreviations

Elma

Elma

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Is there anyone who is familiar with the London Workhouses that could suggest what this abbreviation may mean.

It is taken from the London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records 1764-1930. This one is Hy G Donegan 1920 in the Newington Workhouse, Westmoreland Road, Southwark.
I am trying to work out where he was discharged to, it says RH which means nothing to me has anyone any suggestions thank you.
 

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Just guessing (and could be way off mark) Royal Hospital ie Chelsea, Had he any military past?
 
London Lives has, St Thomas Admission and Discharge Register (RH)
Could it be that he was transferred to that register, either admitted or discharged.
 
I'm pretty sure it stands for Receiving Home :)

Looking at the Creed Register for the Boyson Road Receiving Home, Southwark, there is an entry for Henry Donegan on the 28th Feb 1920, admitted from it gives his DOB as 21.4.09 and he appears to have been discharged to Hanwell on the 5th March 1920, which, I presume, was Hanwell School, information for which can be found on the Workhouse website
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http://www.workhouses.org.uk/CentralLondonSD/
 
AnnB said:
I'm pretty sure it stands for Receiving Home :)

Looking at the Creed Register for the Boyson Road Receiving Home, Southwark, there is an entry for Henry Donegan on the 28th Feb 1920, admitted from it gives his DOB as 21.4.09 and he appears to have been discharged to Hanwell on the 5th March 1920, which, I presume, was Hanwell School, information for which can be found on the Workhouse website
Code: 
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/CentralLondonSD/
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Now I thought I had got pretty clever looking at these workhouse records after my lesson from Andromedia earlier in the week but did I bother with the creed registers NO
Thank you AnnB that is him. Poor little might seemed to have moved around so much.
 
Amle said:
Now I thought I had got pretty clever looking at these workhouse records after my lesson from Andromedia earlier in the week but did I bother with the creed registers NO
Thank you AnnB that is him. Poor little might seemed to have moved around so much.
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The creed registers are really useful as anyone who was admitted to a workhouse appeared in them. Most give more information than just a person's religious persuasion. The trouble with workhouse records is that you really do have to look at all the available books which a person may have appeared in, and, of course, if you are like me, be prepared to get terribly side-tracked :rolleyes:
 
AnnB said:
The creed registers are really useful as anyone who was admitted to a workhouse appeared in them. Most give more information than just a person's religious persuasion. The trouble with workhouse records is that you really do have to look at all the available books which a person may have appeared in, and, of course, if you are like me, be prepared to get terribly side-tracked :rolleyes:
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Hi AnnB, where can one find these Creed Registers of which you speak ?
 
Eve said:
Hi AnnB, where can one find these Creed Registers of which you speak ?
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I've only ever looked at the ones to be found on-line on Ancestry - The London Poor law and Board of Guardian Records. They aren't indexed, but are usually arranged either alphabetically or by date of admission, so you have to find the London borough or Poor Law Union you want to look in and then see if there are any creed registers for the time period you are after. Then it's usually a case of ploughing through them. It can be very pot luck, but most places seem to have a pretty good collection of the registers. I don't know what sort of coverage there is for the rest of the UK, but I would imagine if they have survived, they would be with the relevant record offices :)
 
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