I now have his birth certificate.
No: 419
Born: Fifteenth July 1884 Shipley, Derbyshire
Name: John William
Sex: Boy
Name & Surname of Father: Blank - No Father Stated.
Name, Surname & Maiden Name of Mother: Mary Jane Hallam - Housekeeper.
Occupation of Father: Blank
Informant: Elizabeth Hallam - Present at birth - Shipley
When Registered: 21 August 1884
Registrar: G Baker
Gender
Male
Died
1911 to 19?? WW1?
Notes
Free BMD - Births Sep 1884
Hallam John William Basford 7b 152 - Now got!
Marriage certificate 8 December 1906 (obtained 8/2/02):
John William Hallam, aged 22, Bachelor, Coal Miner of North Norman Street, Cotmanhay. No father or profession entered.
Ada Woolley, aged 20, spinster of North Norman Street, Cotmanhay. Father Aurthur Woolley, Labourer at Gas Works.
Married according to the Rites & Ceremonies of the Methodist Free Church.
Ebenezer Chapel, Awsworth Road, Ilkeston, Derbys.
Witnesses: Edward Davies, Elizabeth Pope.
Cotmanhay, Christ Church Parish Registers: Baptism
1908, May 20. John William son of John William & Ada. 57 Ash St, Miner. by Jas. J. Hutchinson.
Arthur Hallam: April/May/June Qtr 1909 REF: Basford 7b 237 - To get yet.
On Sons (Walter-My Grandad) COPY Birth Certificate says Father is a Coalminer, Hewer (Cotmanhay, Ilkeston).
Resided 121, Highbury Road, Nottingham. Cannot find this at all now? Always was a hospital? Now believed to be the Basford Workhouse. This became
Highbury Hospital and presumably this address continued to be used on certificates.
Investigation notes:
Nottm University Archives:
Highbury Hospital had its origins in the provisions of the 1837 Poor Law Act and was, for its first eighty years, the infirmary of the Basford Union Workhouse. These origins led it to specialise in particular types of disability and for a considerable time it functioned both as a hospital for mental and geriatric patients and as a general hospital staffed by specialists from Nottingham General Hospital providing surgery and midwifery services.
Custodial history: The records were transferred to the University from the Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) South Nottingham District in April 1976 and April 1979.
Scope:The records consist primarily of registers of the admission and discharge of patients (1895-1950). There are also registers of persons of unsound mind detained in the institution (1914-1947) and registers of sick, maternity and mental patients (1911-1950). Registers of births (1871-1947) and of deaths (1871-1948) are also present, as is a delivery ward register (1916-1942).
Records dealing with the Basford Union as an administrative unit were transfered to Nottinghamshire Archives Office. (These include some records of a medical nature, notably vaccination registers.) The records held at the University relate only to the admissions, discharges and treatment of patients while in Highbury Hospital.
Did John William Hallam die in WW1?? Checked and checked - nothing found as yet (Sept 2007)
Must be a death somewhere!
WOOLLEY Ada, b. Between 1886 and 1890, BMD? Births Jun 1890 Woolley Ada Basford 7b 13_
Married
8 Dec 1906
Ebenezer Chapel, Awsworth Road, Ilkeston, Derbys.
Notes
Marriage certificate 8 December 1906 (obtained 8/2/02):
John William Hallam, aged 22, Bachelor, Coal Miner of North Norman Street, Cotmanhay. No father or proffession entered.
Ada Woolley, aged 20, spinster of North Norman Street, Cotmanhay. Father Aurthur Woolley, Labourer at Gas Works.
Married according to the Rites & Ceremonies of the Methodist Free Church.
Ebenezer Chapel, Awsworth Road, Ilkeston, Derbys.
Witnesses: Edward Davies, Elizabeth Pope.
3. HALLAM Walter Herbert, b. 13 Sep 1911, 121, Highbury Road, Bulwell, Nottingham, England , d. 29 Jan 1998, St.Andrews Lodge, Hucknall Road, Nottingham