Cemetery at Withington Workhouse & Hospital, Nell Lane

[Luzzu]

Thanks for your efforts Migky.  Much appreciated.  It seems to me from what you are finding that they reburied the remains but didn't record any names. 

Gortonboy - thanks for link for the pictures.  Really interesting.

Luzzu

[mitmoor]

HI Migky
sounds interesting, when I was trying no one new anything,where did you find your info ? when the weather cools down abit I will nip down to the cem I am only 15 mins away, I know the m section its all common graves area, I don't fancy wondering around in this heat

mitmoor

[tony coleman]

I used to play in the said cemy as a kid with my mates.

  We used to call it conker paradise !!!!!!
 

[manmack]

Thanks for your efforts Migky.  Much appreciated.  It seems to me from what you are finding that they reburied the remains but didn't record any names. 

Gortonboy - thanks for link for the pictures.  Really interesting.

Luzzu

hiya luzzu
the birth registers for the workhouse 1857-1920 are at manchester library
they also have the death registers[including burial details]1857-1949
the creed registers[admissions+discharge]1869-1914
interment registers 1898-1951.

the early dis-interments,were carried out,because they were building princess rd,which passed over part of the cemetery

mack

[Luzzu]

Thanks Manmack.

I will make enquiries there.

 

Luzzu

[mitmoor]

,hi manmack
thats interesting info when I spoke to the library a couple of years ago
they told me they did not hold the records,ring southern they have them
I spoke to southern they said sorry we don't have them so I gave up
I will watch for luzzu,s reply with interest.

mitmoor

[Luzzu]

Hi Mitmoor,

I will have to email Manchester Library and see what response I get.  I won't be able to go in to search the records  for a while as I won't be visiting Manchester again until next year ( I live in Malta  )

I don't feel I can ask a fellow Rootschatter to do a look up because it seems more of a search than a look up and I don't want to take advantage and ask too much.  The people on the Lancashire board have already been more than amazing.

I will get an email off this week and see what happens.  Will keep you posted

Luzzu

[mitmoor]

thanks Luzzu

Mitmoor

[Aulus]

Manchester Library were very helpful when I contacted them after I'd got the death certificate of my great-great grandfather, John Stevenson, which showed he'd died in Withington Workhouse on 6th June 1867.

The archivist looked it up, though their records added no more than that he'd died at 5:40 a.m.  The volume is too fragile for them to photocopy, but they said if I went I could photograph it.  Unfortunately the admissions book for that period is missing, so I don't know when he went into the workhouse.

But the link posted by gortonboy to the holdings makes me wonder whether it might be worth going to see if there's anything in the "cemetery reference book" too.