Forum: Workhouses

hi ya my great great grandfather is on the census 1891 birmingham workhouse is there anyway of finding out his parents he was abt 6 birth year 1883

I have just discovered that my great grandfather was born in the workhouse, Dudley Road in 1866. Does anyone know if there is a list of inmates so...

http://www.bdlha.org/historian/workhouses/workhouses.htm Don't know if this has been posted before.:)

Could anyone please shed light on "Wroughton House" i have a descendant was told died there in 1921 I believe it was a workhouse, and have been told...

I have just recieved my husbands G.Grandmothers death certificate, it states that she died in the workhouse infirmary,the Registration District was...

Hya all My husbands grandmother (Emily Hannah Smith nee Wilcox) ended her days in this place. I have found out that she was a widow and died of...

Has anyone done any research into B,ham workhouses? I have found a family on the 1871 census who are in an (unnamed) workhouse. They appear to have...

Just got a copy of "The Workhouse Cookbook" by Peter Higginbotham from the library. It looks fascinating. The fact that they had beer for breakfast,...

In 1839, my ancestor Dennis Vowles was transported to Australia leaving three children, Joseph (born abt.1827), Elizabeth (born abt. 1830) and Dennis...

Can anyone help steer me in the right direction ? An ancestor, Richard Wright died on th 12th August 1904, according to his death certificate in the...

Rebecca Waterson b 1867 in the East Indies.She moved to Aston and on the 1881 census was living with Father Henry James,Step Mother Ann(nee...

Hello could somebody please explain to me where the above is. I arent familiar with the city of birmingham so dont know how many workhouses there...

My great great grand farther died in December 1854 in a Birmingham work house. The death certificate states where he died, "Work House" but does not...

I have a death certificate for a 14 year old boy who died of typhoid fever in the Aston Union Workhouse in April 1891. The certificate is signed by a...

I am a teacher at Kingsbury Training Centre and would like any accounts of life in The Gardens over the last century , especially regarding the Aston...

:( I am hoping to find information on four sisters one my mother they had a connection with Josiah Masons but I was never told what there mother was...

Hi - I went in to Central Library in Birmingham on Saturday to see if any records from Aston Union workhouse were there, but apparently there are...