Official Workhouse Addresses post 1904

[Joof]

My Grandmother was born in a workhouse in 1908 but the birth certificate shows an address of 77 Bridport Road, Edmonton UD. I understand this is just an official address given on birth certificates after 1904 but does anyone know what workhouse in London this relates to ? She believed she was born at either Bethnal Green or Homerton Workhouse but her family lived around Tottenham at the time.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Mean_genie]

The Registration District and the Poor Law Union were almost always identical, and in this case 77 Bridport Road was Edmonton Union Infirmary. Infirmaries were effectively local general hospitals, so women giving birth there was not necessarily workhouse inmates.

There is some more detail about the hospital here

www.northmid.nhs.uk/aboutus/?id=16&sid=18

and on the ever-wonderful Workhouses site

www.northmid.nhs.uk/aboutus/?id=16&sid=18

Mean_genie

[Mean_genie]

Joof

I'm forgetting my manners. I just noticed that was your first post. Welcome to Rootschat - you'll like it here!

Mean_genie

[Joof]

Oh that's great and thanks for your welcome too. My Grandmother was told by her brother, as an adult, that she had been born in a workhouse and this story was supported by her childhood memory of her father telling her that her birth had brought him good luck as he got a job. If it turns out her mother was just there using it as a hospital it will be a shame she died not knowing the truth. I suppose the LMA will have the records ? The other website you mentioned I assume is the facsinating Workhouse one run by a Peter ?

Thanks again. 

[Mean_genie]

Yes, it's Peter Higginbottom, and I meant to give you the link to that one too, instead of the hospital site twice - oops! It's my day off and the brain has slipped into neutral.

www.workhouses.org

And yes, any records will be at the LMA

Good luck

Mean_genie

[coombs]

Hi

You will hit a bit of a goldmine if the workhouse records do survive and many do for the early 1900s. They will often list previous address, reason for admittance, and by whose order, when discharged, age and occupation, and if that of a birth in a workhouse then sometimes the mothers occupation is listed.

Ben