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Title: Woleston Workhouse Burial
Post by: sivartd on Saturday 29 September 07 21:10 BST (UK)

My GGG dad died in 1909 at Woleston Workhouse, where would the workhouse bury a person if they hadn't any family to do this for them.

Many thanks, Doreen

Title: Re: Woleston Workhouse Burial
Post by: stanmapstone on Saturday 29 September 07 22:36 BST (UK)

Hi Doreen,
It is Worleston, and is the Nantwich Workhouse. He would probably have been buried in Nantwich Cemetery, Whitehouse Lane, which opened 1897
The records are held at the County Records Office Chester:

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service,
Cheshire Record Office,
Duke Street,
Chester,
Cheshire.
CH1 1RL.
United Kingdom

Phone : 44 (0)1244 602574
Fax : 44 (0)1244 603812
email recordoffice@cheshire.gov.uk

Records Available
Administration Records 1838 to 1978
General Records 1842 to 1930
Finance Records 1838 to 1925
Admis & Discharge 1925 to 1978
Clinical & Patient Records 1917 to 1978

Stan

Title: Re: Woleston Workhouse Burial
Post by: sivartd on Sunday 30 September 07 00:05 BST (UK)

Hi Stan, Thank you so much for the reply, that'll give me something to go for. Bye for now, Doreen