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Title: Loddon Workhouse
Post by: gardenguru on Friday 15 June 12 16:06 BST (UK)
I am looking for information on a James Pitcher who is recorded on the 1891 cencus as being in the Loddon Workhouse.I think from BMD that he probably died there in 1891 age 71. He appears in the 1881 cencus as a lodger with a Joseph Armsley but his wife Caroline is living elsewhere. (Very interesting - wonder what happened there). Are there any admission records etc for the workhouse?

Thanks Chris
Title: Re: Loddon Workhouse
Post by: Yorkslass on Friday 15 June 12 17:27 BST (UK)
Hello Chris,

I believe the Loddon Workhouse was at and known as Heckingham Workhouse.

The Workhouse burials are online and free to view.  I could only find a James Peacher, aged 70 when he died in February 1892 - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-5418-72?cc=1824706&wc=9019650

Funnily enough, there are Admission and Discharge Registers online too.

But there are over 6,000 pages, and the entries are a bit higgledy piggledy.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-5418-72?cc=1824706&wc=9019650#uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Fwaypoint%2F9019233%3Fcc%3D1824706

Yorkslass
Title: Re: Loddon Workhouse
Post by: t mo on Friday 15 June 12 18:23 BST (UK)
hi
have a look here as well www.workhouses.org.uk/  on home page put loddon in search box nd it,ll take you to it 
regards
trevor
Title: Re: Loddon Workhouse
Post by: gardenguru on Saturday 16 June 12 11:29 BST (UK)
thank you I have now found his addmission and discharge entries by paging through the book you gave me a link to.Didn't give much info though only dates.
Title: Re: Loddon Workhouse
Post by: rogerbc on Sunday 17 June 12 21:11 BST (UK)
Hi Chris.

Just had a look at my index and have a james Peacher of woodton buried there on 03.02.1892 aged 70.
Is this your man? I believe it is.
Its worth a look at the burial register for the parish church of Heckingham in case he was buried there, also for his own parish of woodton.
The workhouse did have it's own consecrated ground.

Regards Roger
Title: Re: Loddon Workhouse
Post by: gardenguru on Tuesday 19 June 12 11:12 BST (UK)
I found on the discharge pages a James Pitcher died July 1891 and disscharged as dead! I think the James Peacher is another person who prehaps was buried at the workhouse may someone came and collected my James.
Thanks for looking