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Elizabeth Gunns
1852 –25/10/1921
Elizabeth Gunns
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ELIZABETH GUNNS; 1852 – 1921
Elizabeth Gunns, née Adams, was born in Kilsby Northamptonshire in 1852 to Jane Ward and George Adams. In 1861 she was living with her grandparents, Thomas Ward, a farmer of three acres, and his wife Mary.
She married Edmund John Gunns August 1882 in St Pancras London. They had no children. In 1901 Mary and Edmund were living in Wembley and Edmund was working as a railway accounts clerk. By 1911 they had moved to Watford.
Elizabeth ‘s address at the date of her death on 25th October 1921 was 241a High Street. That was the address of Berkhamsted Union workhouse.
The fact that Elizabeth died in the workhouse does not necessarily mean she was resident there as a pauper. She may have been admitted to the workhouse infirmary. Originally workhouse infirmaries were intended solely for the care of residents in the workhouse, but towards the latter part of the 19th century the standard of care provided improved and from the 1880’s admission to workhouse infirmaries was increasingly permitted to those who though poor, were not sufficiently destitute to require admission to the workhouse. Like all recipients of union relief, they first needed to have their means assessed and might be required to contribute towards their care. The workhouse medical service marked the beginning of a state funded medical service
Edmund did not die until 1936. At the time of his death he was living in Hempstead House in Hemel Hempstead, which had originally also been a workhouse. In 1920 it then became a hospital for the poor and infirm.
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ELIZABETH GUNNS; 1852 – 1921
Elizabeth Gunns, née Adams, was born in Kilsby Northamptonshire in 1852 to Jane Ward and George Adams. In 1861 she was living with her grandparents, Thomas Ward, a farmer of three acres, and his wife Mary.
She married Edmund John Gunns August 1882 in St Pancras London. They had no children. In 1901 Mary and Edmund were living in Wembley and Edmund was working as a railway accounts clerk. By 1911 they had moved to Watford.
Elizabeth ‘s address at the date of her death on 25th October 1921 was 241a High Street. That was the address of Berkhamsted Union workhouse.
The fact that Elizabeth died in the workhouse does not necessarily mean she was resident there as a pauper. She may have been admitted to the workhouse infirmary. Originally workhouse infirmaries were intended solely for the care of residents in the workhouse, but towards the latter part of the 19th century the standard of care provided improved and from the 1880’s admission to workhouse infirmaries was increasingly permitted to those who though poor, were not sufficiently destitute to require admission to the workhouse. Like all recipients of union relief, they first needed to have their means assessed and might be required to contribute towards their care. The workhouse medical service marked the beginning of a state funded medical service
Edmund did not die until 1936. At the time of his death he was living in Hempstead House in Hemel Hempstead, which had originally also been a workhouse. In 1920 it then became a hospital for the poor and infirm.
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