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Re: Liverpool Workhouse burials
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 11 October 09 23:29 BST (UK) »
Several of my own ancestors died in the infirmary in that workhouse and were buried either in Anfield or Kirkdale cemetaries

I'm not aware of it having it's own cemetary but this article may shed some light on that aspect for you

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Liverpool/Liverpool.shtml
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Carlin (Ireland & Liverpool) Doughty & Wright (Liverpool) Dick & Park (Scotland & Liverpool)

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Re: Liverpool Workhouse burials
« Reply #2 on: Monday 12 October 09 12:28 BST (UK) »
I have some in Toxteth Cemetery.....I suppose it depended on space at the time...as you know 12 to 14 people were buried in the same grave in the space of a week ...so if there was a grave opened in Toxteth on 2nd Oct 1877 and you happened to die 5th October ..you went in that grave.....I presume the same for Anfield / Kirkdale etc.....try www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk they may have an answer...allan :)
Hiya Ian...I`ve just had a quick look through that site and I didn`t know there was a cemetery in LOW HILL  from 1825 to 1912...this is definitely very close to Brownlow Hill Workhouse...there`s 30 volumes evidently recorded....allan
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Re: Liverpool Workhouse burials
« Reply #5 on: Monday 12 October 09 20:26 BST (UK) »
there is an Elisabeth Aldridge  buried in  St James Cemetery  next to Liverpool Cathedral   any  relation  ?
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Re: Liverpool Workhouse burials
« Reply #6 on: Monday 12 October 09 20:34 BST (UK) »
thanks for that - not sure!

Fanny's husband Robert died in 1864 and was buried (poor grave?) in Toxteth Park.

His parents were John and Elizabeth but nothing yet to confirm when they died.

I'll make a note of it.

best wishes,
Ian.