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Mary Thomas
1851 –24/11/1922
Mary Thomas
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MARY ANN THOMAS; 1851 – 1922
Mary Ann Thomas was born in Worthing in 1851 and later married Thomas Thomas a self-employed corn dealer.
Thomas had been born in Thames Ditton in Surrey and was 12 years younger than Mary. In 1901 the couple were living in Thames Ditton where Thomas worked as a nursery gardener. They had no children.
At the time of the 1911 census they had moved to King’s Langley Prior to King’s Langley. Whether Thomas left Mary or died is unknown, but her address at the date of her death on 24th November 1922 was 241a High Street, that being the workhouse.
Mary may have been admitted to the workhouse as a pauper requiring relief but alternatively she may have been and admitted to the infirmary if she was in need of medical care. 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
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MARY ANN THOMAS; 1851 – 1922
Mary Ann Thomas was born in Worthing in 1851 and later married Thomas Thomas a self-employed corn dealer.
Thomas had been born in Thames Ditton in Surrey and was 12 years younger than Mary. In 1901 the couple were living in Thames Ditton where Thomas worked as a nursery gardener. They had no children.
At the time of the 1911 census they had moved to King’s Langley Prior to King’s Langley. Whether Thomas left Mary or died is unknown, but her address at the date of her death on 24th November 1922 was 241a High Street, that being the workhouse.
Mary may have been admitted to the workhouse as a pauper requiring relief but alternatively she may have been and admitted to the infirmary if she was in need of medical care. 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
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