Records for Wokingham Workhouse

[dawnie dawn]

Does anyone have access to records for Wokingham Workhouse please? I am looking for info on Fanny (Frances) Marshall nee Spencer ( 5 X GG Gmother) who died there 1 Jan 1867 aged approx 76-79. Her husband Moses died in 1858 so I think she was alone as her children would all have been in their 30's.

Any information you can advise would be helpful
Many thanks
Dawn

[ribbo39]

Hi Dawn,

I think I gave you her burial details in this thread;

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,515322.0.html

I believe the only way you will obtain further info is to contact the Berks RO who hold all the records.

The following address is useful. Just go to W/house locations, then Berks and select Reading & Wokingham SD. (It only gives Inmates for the 1881 census though)

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

Hope this helps.

Alan

[behindthefrogs]

A new workhouse was built in Barkham Road Wokingham after the formation of the poor law union in 1837.  This still exists and is still in use as Wokingham Hospital,

The original workhouse was in Denmark Street (then called Down Street) and was demolished in 1964.  However it seems to have still performed some function associated with the workhouse until the 1880s.

It is not clear to me me when the construction of the new workhouse was completed, which may be after 1867, although the main building was built by 1850.

David

[Sherilla63]

Hi,

I am so amazed that you guys can find records so quickly and easily.

I too need to find someone who died in the Wokingham Union Workhouse. My 4 x Great Grandfather Francis Saunders died in 1864 and it states on his death certificate that he died at the above-mentioned workhouse.

Where do you think that I might be able to obtain records for him at the workhouse?  He was only there for a little while as the 1861 census shows him as a lodger living in Wargrave. He was born in 1783 in Fyfield Berks and died in Sept 1864.

Any help would be very appreciated.
Kind Regards
Sherilla

[ribbo39]

Hi Sherilla63,

Welcome to Rootschat. I think you will find a wealth of knowledge and assitance here.

The Berks FHS; https://berksfhs.org
have produced a CD of burials and Francis Saunders is recored as being buried in Wargrave St.Mary on 19-9-1864 having been in the Wokingham Union W/House.

I can only suggest that perhaps the Berks Archives in Reading may hold any surviving records.
They can be contacted here;
https://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk where you may be able to see what records they hold.

Hope this helps

Alan

[Little Nell]

As Alan has already said, Berkshire Record Office hold the workhouse records.

According to Peter Higginbotham's wonderful Workhouses site (good for just about everything you might want to know about the British workhouse)

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Wokingham/

Berkshire Record Office hold some of the records and their catalogue can be searched here:

http://ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/CalmView/Advanced.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog

Nell