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« on: Thursday 04 February 10 18:31 GMT (UK) »
 Hi can anyone help me,I am trying to find a list of "inmates" of the Union Workhouse Poplar in the years 1895/6.

I would be very grateful for any suggestions :)

Many Thanks

scruffy

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Re: union workhouse
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 04 February 10 19:16 GMT (UK) »
Hi Scruffy

The London metropolitan Archives should have these. What name are you after?

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Re: union workhouse
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 04 February 10 23:44 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

 :)

There is quite a lot of information and pictures of the Poplar Union Workhouse on www.workhouses.org.uk as well as a list of the records held by the London Metropolitan Archive.  Just put Poplar Union in the search box.

Is it likely the person you are looking for would have been an inmate there in either 1891 or 1901?

Luzzu
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Armitage, Slaithwaite; Buck, Staffs & Hampshire; Buckley, Bolton & Manchester; Temple, London & Hampshire; Crummett, Norfolk & Burnley; Osborne, Cornwall & Burnley; Haigh, Manchester & Todmorden; Gralton/Grant, Manchester & Ireland; France, Manchester & Slaithwaite; Shackleton, Burnley & Yorkshire; Dicks, Nottingham & Wiltshire; Sowter, Derbyshire

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Re: union workhouse
« Reply #3 on: Friday 05 February 10 08:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi Ben,
Thanks for the info, the name I`m looking for is Caroline Goodridge, who had a child Nelly there in september 1896.
Perhaps you can help.
Scruffy

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Re: union workhouse
« Reply #4 on: Friday 05 February 10 09:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi Luzzu,
Thanks for the info. I have looked on the website but couldn`t find a list of names, perhaps i was looking in the wrong place :-[ i will look again.
thanks again.
Scruffy

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« Reply #5 on: Friday 05 February 10 12:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi Scruffy,

It wasn't a list of names, it was a list of the records that are available at the LMA.  If you go on the page for Poplar Union, and scroll down to the end.

The only names on there are a list of the inmates for 1881 which is a bit too early for the person you are looking for.

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Armitage, Slaithwaite; Buck, Staffs & Hampshire; Buckley, Bolton & Manchester; Temple, London & Hampshire; Crummett, Norfolk & Burnley; Osborne, Cornwall & Burnley; Haigh, Manchester & Todmorden; Gralton/Grant, Manchester & Ireland; France, Manchester & Slaithwaite; Shackleton, Burnley & Yorkshire; Dicks, Nottingham & Wiltshire; Sowter, Derbyshire

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Re: union workhouse
« Reply #6 on: Friday 05 February 10 13:20 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: scruffy 10 on Friday 05 February 10 08:58 GMT (UK)
Hi Ben,
Thanks for the info, the name I`m looking for is Caroline Goodridge, who had a child Nelly there in september 1896.
Perhaps you can help.
Scruffy

Hi Scruffy

She may well have just gone in there to have the baby, they were hospitals as such in those days I believe.

Rosie
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Re: union workhouse
« Reply #7 on: Friday 05 February 10 20:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi Scruffy

The LMA/Ancestry project is still a 'work in progress', there are still loads of records to be digitised and transcribed before they go online.

It may be that what you want isn't online yet or the records you are looking for may not have survived.

May I suggest you send an email to the LMA asking them what their holdings are for Poplar union workhouse 1895-1897.

Dawn

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Re: union workhouse
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 07 February 10 09:18 GMT (UK) »
Hi

According to 'Poor law union records' by Gibson, Rogers and Webb as long as it is the workhouse on the High Street in Poplar, creed registers survive for 1844-1940, birth registers 1837-1914 and baptisms 1881-1939.

Ancestry have the Poplar poor law records (unindexed so it is a time consuming activity to trawl through them) under the borough records for Tower Hamlets.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/Default.aspx?htx=List&dbid=1557&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0

Ancestry is a subscription website.


Regards

Valda
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