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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1835 in Ireland.
• Geëmigreerd op 10 maart 1868, Joined the Freemasons at the United Grand Lodge.

  Name: George Edward Douglas
  Gender: Male
  Initiation Age: 33
  Birth Year: abt 1835
  Initiation Date: 10 Mar 1868
  First Payment Year on Register: 1868
  Year range: 1863-1887
  Profession: Gent
  Lodge: Lodge of United Strength
  Lodge Number: 228, 276
  Folio Number: 217

• Beroep: van 1871 tot 1881 Master of the workhouse.
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1861: 44 South Row, Hanover Square, St. George's Middlesex. (Landlord).

  Name: [George Edward Douglas] Age: 26 Estimated Birth Year: 1835 Relation: Landlord Spouse's Name: Ann Harvis Gender: Male Where born: Ireland Civil parish: St George Hanover Square County/Island: Middlesex
  Country: England Registration district: St George Hanover Square Sub-registration district: Hanover Square ED, institution, or vessel: 12 Neighbors: Household schedule number: 203 Piece: 41 Folio: 98 Page number: 2
  Household Members Age Relationship George Edwd Douglas 26 Landlord Joseph Harvis 50 H Of F
  Ann Harvis 47 Wife John Charles Harvis 17 Son William Harvis 11 Son James Harvis 8 Son
  George Fredk Harvis 4 Son William Sedgewick 32 H Of F Ellen Sedgewick 27 Wife
  Mary Ann Sedgewick 5 Daughter

• in het jaar 1871: St. Marylebone Workhouse, Northumberland Street, London. England.

  Name: George Edward Douglas Age: 36 Estimated Birth Year: 1835 Relation: Officer Gender: Male
  Where born: Ireland Civil parish: St Marylebone Ecclesiastical parish: Rectory County/Island: London
  Country: England Registration district: Marylebone Sub-registration district: Rectory ED, institution, or vessel: St Marylebone Workhouse (1) Household schedule number: 1 Piece: 164 Folio: 81 Page number: 1
  Household Members Age Relationship
  George Edward Douglas 36 Officer

• in het jaar 1881: St. Marylebone Workhouse, Northumberland Street, London. England.

  Name: George Edward Douglas Age: 46 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835 Gender: Male Where Born: Ireland
  Civil Parish: Marylebone County/Island: London Country: England Street Address: St Marylebone Workhouse Northumberland St Marital status: Married Occupation: Master Of The Workhouse Registration District: Marylebone
  Sub registration district: Rectory ED, institution, or vessel: St Marylebone Workhouseb Neighbors: Piece: 145 Folio: 85
  Page Number: 1 Household Members: Name Age
  
  George Edward Douglas 46
  Ann Elizabeth Douglas 43
  Annie Douglas 18
  May Eaton Douglas 17
  Lilian Douglas 16
  George Edward Douglas 13
  Daisy Douglas 11

• in het jaar 1891: St. Marylebone Workhouse, Northumberland Street, London. England.

  Name: George Edward Douglas Gender: Male Age: 57 Relationship: Head and Officer (Head) Birth Year: 1834
  Child: George Edward Douglas Daisy Douglas Birth Place: Ireland Civil parish: St Marylebone Ecclesiastical parish: The Rectory Residence Place: London, St Marylebone, London, England Registration district: Marylebone Sub registration district: Rectory ED, Institution or Vessel: The Marylebone Workhouse Neighbors: Piece: 95 Folio: 182 Household Members Age Relationship
  George Edward Douglas 57 Head and Officer (Head)
  George Edward Douglas 23 Son
  Daisy Douglas 21 Daughter
  Mary Marsh Coles 31 Visitor

• Hij is overleden op 24 juni 1900 in Hendon, London, England, hij was toen 65 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in East Finchley cemetary, Barnet, Greater London.

  George Edward Douglas
  BIRTH
  1834
  DEATH
  24 Jun 1900 (aged 65–66)
  BURIAL
  East Finchley Cemetery and Crematorium
  East Finchley, London Borough of Barnet, Greater London, England Show Map
  PLOT
  D10 55
  MEMORIAL ID
  245150417 · View Source
  MEMORIAL
  PHOTOS 3
  FLOWERS 0
  For 32 years Master of St Marylebone Workhouse
  
  Inscription
  Aged 66 years

• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 31 juli 2023.

Gezin van George Edward Douglas

Hij is getrouwd met Ann Elizabeth Eaton.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 22 oktober 1861 te Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.

Name: George Edward Douglas Registration Year: 1861 Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec Registration District: Marylebone Volume: 1a Page: 873 Records on Page: Name Charles Brooke George Edward Douglas
Ann Elizabeth Eaton Richard Gallagher Margaret Keeffe

Name: George Edward Douglas
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1861
Marriage Place: Trinity Church, Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Father: William Douglas Spouse: Ann Elizabeth Eaton FHL Film Number: 580889 Reference ID: Page 194 No.387

Notities over George Edward Douglas

George Edward Douglas, c1835-

George, born in Ireland, was the Master of St Marylebone Workhouse, Northumberland St, St Marylebone, London in 1881. He died 24th June 1900.
His wife Ann Elizabeth, bc 1840 in Oxford, was Matron Of The Workhouse. She died April 21st 1898, aged 58 years.
Their daughter, Annie, bc 1863 was Lady Secretary
Their other children, May Eaton, Lilian, George Edward, and Daisy also lived there.
In 1867, the workhouse played a part in a local disaster. On 15th January 1867, the workhouse Master, George Edward Douglas, was walking with his wife (who was also the Matron) in Regent's Park when ice on the frozen lake gave way and 200 skaters fell into the freezing water. Douglas immediately organized the transport of survivors back to the workhouse for medical attention. Forty recovered bodies were also taken to the workhouse.

There were 1532 residents in the workhouse at the time of the 1881 census. George and Ann were Master and Matron for 32 years. During this period, and particularly following the Metropolitan Houseless Poor Acts of 1864 and 1865, significant improvements were made to the workhouse.

It is inevitably the worst cases of cruelty and neglect by workhouse masters that drew most attention at the time and provide sue! (?) compelling material for the modern historian, but it is necessary to balance these accounts with those of efficient and humane masters who gave good service to both guardians and paupers. One such was George Edward Douglas, who was appointed as master of the St Marylebon(sic) Workhouse in 1862. It is perhaps significant that, unlike many masters of the time who were recruited from the harsh worlds of the army or the prisons, Douglas had worked his way up through the posts of storekeeper and master’s clerk in the institution before this promotion. Any workhouse in the centre of a great city was certain to require firmness and stamina on the part of the master in order to control the often unruly inmates, but Douglas was able to combine this with a sensitive appreciation of the needs of the vulnerable. (Oral History, Health and Welfare, 2005)

In 1867 a major administrative change occurred under the Metropolitan Poor Act, the Directors and Guardians drawn from the Vestry being replaced by an elected Board of Guardians, independent of the Vestry and subject to regulation and control by the central Poor Law Board. From the 1860s, in consequence of this system and the appointment of an enlightened master, George Douglas, Marylebone workhouse began to lose a longstanding reputation for harsh discipline and even savagery.
Survey of London Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

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