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Warwickshire Lookup Requests / Re: Warwick Union Workhouse
« on: Saturday 30 April 11 06:48 BST (UK) »
I am particularly interested in what happened to minors in the Warwick Union Workhouse. My GG grandfather appears to have entered the workhouse with his two younger sisters and a brother on the death of both his parents. Interestingly, an older brother seems to have made his way in the world and eventually joins the civil service and marries quite well. Meanwhile the younger two children die in the workhouse. Elijah and his sister Jane are both inmates in the 1851 census. They appear to be literate and well educated. Somewhere between 1851 and his marriage to Eliza Edwards in 1858 in Australia he has emigrated on the Tancred in 1853. Is it likely that he would have organised this himself or did the Workhouses play a role in arraning emigration for orphans. He would have been about 19 at this stage. He subsequently becomes a teacher in Australian schools by 1860. Quite a feat - from Union workhouse to long career as a teacher. His sister Jane, who stayed behind in England, also became a teacher. Can anybody tell me what happened to children who became of age in the workhouse. Were they encouraged to go out and find work?
) Martin married Eliza Cox from Joseph Cox's first marriage to Ann Conway. She died on the boat coming over as did their two youngest children who are buried at the Quarantine Station in Sydney. THe ship was the notorious "Lady McNaghten" which was riddled with typhus. Yet the survivors managed to found the huge Cox dynasty.