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Fulham Union

Receiving Officer report

31st August 1898

Chargeability - Pregnant and Destitute

50 Latimer Road - 1 week

24 Holland Park Rod - 2 months

16 Royal Crescent - 3 months

Chaplain Service Wormwood Scrubs Prison - 7 months

Born Aldbourne Wilts

Left there 5 years ago

Father William - Upper Upham Wilts

I wish I could see the next page of the document!
It says "over", but it's not possible to see the next page.

ArgyllGran

I know, I wish i could view under the blue paper as well.
I have emailed Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and also London Metropolitan Archives to see if they can help.
I would gladly pay to either have a copy or transcript

Linda

Yes, I think she must have been working at the prison for 7 months.

I assume her son William (1898-99 Fulham) is the child who was registered as Harry.

ArgyllGran

You are right . Her son was Harry Carter.
She married Edward Brewer who was 30 years older than her and moved back to Wilts and Hampshire.

Harry became known as William Brewer In later life he was known as Bill Carter .

Harry wrote down a few memories when he was in hospital in later life. This is an excerpt

When I came out of hospital I found that my mother and sisters had gone. There was just father and a grown-up stepbrother (about 45 years old I should think) left.

It wasn’t long before I found that I was to go to London to Barts Hospital for further treatment to my arm. I left all this real life behind and went to a horrible jumbled up existence in London.

I remember leaving by train from Itchen Abbas station. The old man gave me 6d. and a neighbour another 6d, these 2 coins I kept in a purse I had stitched from a part of an old glove. I kept them for years and think they were stolen from me at sea.

I do not remember how I was met at Waterloo, but I eventually ended up at the New University Club in St.. James Street, S.W. . I do not know what the connection was, but the Secretary of the Club, MR HORACE BIRCH, and the House-keeper, Mrs. WIDDOWS, were both father and mother to me and I learnt that MR BIRCH was my legal guardian.

They were good people. In due course I went into St. Barts Hospital (Barker Ward) where I had weeks of electric treatment which was highly successful, and then back to the Club. However, I missed our old village where nobody knew anything, whilst here everybody knew everything.

Thanks, Carter.
Aren't families fascinating!

That must have been before 1938:

"A third club for members of the two Universities, founded in 1864 and called the New University Club, had its rooms at 57 St James's Street. This amalgamated with the United University Club in 1938."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_University_Club

ArgyllGran

I think it was about 1912-13 because he mentions in his notes that after a year there was news about ww1 and he wanted to join the navy. He was under age but went to the recruitment 3 Times till he got in. He did his training on the victory and being a farm lad he had never learned to swim. The navy's way of reaching them was to tie a rope around his waist and dangle him over board . He said he learned to swim very quickly ??????

All the other filmed images are shaded in blue over the page and the finer details blocked out. and also show their birth certificate.

Perhaps it cant be altered.?

Kay
Thank you I looked at that too. Such a shame to hide details. But perhaps they didn't think of that at the time x

Update

I was thrilled today to receive a reply to my email from London Metropolitan Archives.

They gave me instructions on how to view the whole Order of Removal for Elizabeth Jane Carter.

It was on Ancestry under their card collection.

It seemed Elizabeth was not a prisoner in Wormwood Scrubs but worked in the Chaplains House.

thank you everyone for all youe help
Linda