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Workhouse inmates
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Barbara | Report | 13 Nov 2009 15:39 |
Does anybody know if the 1891 census contains details of workhouse inmates. I have been unable to locate my gg grandparents on the 1891 census. I then found a record of death which I think may be my gg grandfather and he died in the workhouse in 1889, so I was wondering if my gg grandmother was there in 1891. She turned up on the 1901 census as a widow living with her son and his family. I have found details of the 1881 workhouse census but nothing for 1891. Perhaps somebody knows the answer. |
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Barbara | Report | 13 Nov 2009 16:05 |
Thanks Jonesey have done that but no luck. Perhaps gg grandmother wasn't in workhouse in 1891 but can't find her anywhere. Will keep trying though. |
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Barbara | Report | 13 Nov 2009 16:26 |
Her name is Martha Johnson b. 1830 in Liverpool. In 1881 and 1901 she was living in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.Her husband's name was Edward b. 1841 in Ireland, but don't know the county. Thanks for the offer. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 13 Nov 2009 17:47 |
The fact he died in the workhouse does not necessarily mean that he or any of his family were ever inmates there. People on their death bed were often moved there because there was no other care option in those days. |
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Battenburg | Report | 13 Nov 2009 18:30 |
On the 1881 census Martha is born 1835 |
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Barbara | Report | 14 Nov 2009 14:31 |
Thank you Hawkwind for the information. I didn't realise people were moved to workhouses when they were dying because there was nobody to care for them. |