Bromley Poor Law Union Births 1900-1913

My transcript of the birth record of Bromley Union held at Bromley Historic Collections is now online at Kent Online Parish Clerks. Bromley Poor Law transcripts can be located via the Bromley  Parish Page under the Bromley Union Records heading in the right hand column of the page.
The transcript is extremely useful as the Infirmary had expanded and was providing maternity service to family doctors throughout the Union parishes.  The relevant parish is included in each entry and one can see that difficulties in birth,twins and still born children were being accommodated.
The time of birth of twins is recorded.
It is a valuable record as family historians may locate children they were not aware of or birth within the Workhose which may lead to other workhouse records. The Church of England Baptisms at the Workhouse Chapel which are copied into the Farnborough Parish Baptisms register are another resource.

© Henry Mantell Farnborough Online Parish Clerk 2013-2019 

Bromley Poor Law Union Deaths 1907-1914

This record held at Bromley Historic Collections amongst the Inmate series is held under reference GBy/W/I/d/1 and the transcript I prepared is available at Kent Online Parish Clerks.
Entries contain an age (although not always reliable) Religion,Parish of origin within the Union and place of burial and who was responsible for burial.
This information reflects that infants and elderly persons predominate although there is a distribution of children and young adults. Together with the Creed Registers for the union the detail of parish and places of burial are useful pointers to other records for further information for family history research.
The use of cemteries as well as Parish burial grounds as places of burial is also useful in considering locating graves.
I have checked and recorded civil registration information where it differs in age or name from the Workhouse record.

© Henry Mantell Farnborough Online Parish Clerk 2013-2019

Farnborough Kent Baptismal Register 1908-1918

The clasped Register of Baptisms for 1908-1918 held at Bromley Historic Collections reference,P/144/1/11 is an interesting insight into the over 600 inhabitants of the parish and the additional population of Bromley Union Workhouse with resident staff of around 700 people.
Baptisms at Bromley Union Chapel which are in a Parish provided register from 1908 are for Farnborough Hospital reflecting the growing role of the Infirmary under control of the Board of Guardians. The Maternity ward of the Infirmary dealt with births from family doctor referred women and twins are often included in this group along with the poignant infant mortality deaths.
The Chaplain throughout this period was Reverend Ebenezer Joseph Welch and rarely are Baptisms at the Workhouse Chapel performed by other clergy. Unlike earlier Parish Baptismal Registers Ebenezer Welch copied all Workhouse Chapel Baptisms into the Parish register.
The Parish in this period was growing in population and the Register reflects the growth  in the number of Railway Workers living in the village.
There are 799 Baptisms recorded in this volume with only one crossed out and entered on the line below. Unfortunately the entries are not always legible or accurately spelled surnames and some date entries in Ebenezer's spidery hand are debatable. I have transcribed all of the entries and spent additional research time in other sources to identify correct surnames and parents names as the original entry is scrawled and unreadable.
The transcript will be prepared for publication online at Kent Online Parish Clerks in due course and will be the final Baptismal Register for Farnborough in the series.

© Henry Mantell Farnborough Online Parish Clerk 2013-2019