1911 census

[silvery]

He may only have been in the workhouse because he was ill.  In the days before the national health and insurance, the workhouse infirmary was used as a local hospital.
If you put up his name and year of birth etc, someone may be able to find him.

[louisa maud]

tHANK YOU
I have done all the usual things and even had a very knowlegeable friend of mine look for me, my query also is why Shoreditch

LM

[coombs]

Hi

Many of my ancestors wre in the workhouse because they were ill.

But my ancestor Thomas Clift was in the workhouse in 1861 and he was still married but his wife Elizabeth was dying of phthisis and was dead by May 1861. Thomas remarried in 1865. I wonder if he couldnt cope with her being ill or something.

Ben

[Meliora]

Hello, LM,

This might help.

some addresses

Holborn Union Workhouse, St Andrews London
 as you know St Andrews comes under the Ciry of London

Holborn workbouse, 158 Grays Inn Rd.

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Holborn/Holborn.shtml
this mentions the City Rd site & has a good explanation of the various Holborn workhouse with pictures,

The Info leaflet no 26, Poor Law Records in London & Middlesex, City of London, Archives, Guildhall.
states " Holborn Workhouse is in the City Rd, Shoreditch"  so their registration district would be Shoreditch.

Confused, I'm not surprised.

Meliora

[Nick29]

Hi

Many of my ancestors wre in the workhouse because they were ill.

But my ancestor Thomas Clift was in the workhouse in 1861 and he was still married but his wife Elizabeth was dying of phthisis and was dead by May 1861. Thomas remarried in 1865. I wonder if he couldnt cope with her being ill or something.

Ben

Many of the old workhouses became hospitals in the 1900's.  My grandfather died in the Greenwich Workhouse of pthisis (TB) in 1896.  My father died of cancer in the same place in 1983, but by then it had become the Greenwich District Hospital (although at first it was known as St. Alfege's Hospital).

[Nick29]

Nick ... perhaps you misunderstood me ... I am not asking for someone to look it up having already done that myself and paid for it.

Yes, sorry about that, I thought that you maybe assumed that by posting the name of the picture that we could see it.  There is a function to post pictures on the forum, but we have to be careful not to post too much of the image, or we fall foul of the copyright censor.

[louisa maud]

Thank You Meliora
I think I might have become de-confused now, well as ever I will be.
I must admit I never realised the Holborn Workhouse was in Shoreditch, as I have said before, one lives and learns and one should never be surprised

regards

Louisa Maud

[Arranroots]

Thanks everyone for your contributions to this discussion.

I have locked it - because it is so long - and the key points have been summarised here:

Topic: 1911 census - Rootschatters' tips for success

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=355239.new


I would welcome further additions to the above thread - send them to me by PM and I will try to distil them!

Feel free to start another thread on the Census and Resource Discussion board to discuss other issues as they arise.


Note: now that we are a little wiser as to how to use the census please post specific problems with your research on the relevant county board and keep the new thread for discussion on general themes.


Thank you!