Workhouse admissions and discharges after 1913

[Driftygirl]

Hi Everyone

I've found my grandmother's Mary Anne Jeffries admission on Ancestry into Edgware Workhouse on 28 August 1913 - according to my relatives she left the family when my father was very young and they never saw her again. I think the workhouse record states she was ill and destitute but I'm not sure and it appears that there is a PO against by whose order she was admitted by? Is anyone able to enlighten me on what the PO stands for, would it be Police Order? She was put in an inebriate reformatory in Gloucestershire where my dad was born in 1905 and back at home according to the 1911 census in Hendon with her family. I have been trying to find out what happened to her, the record digitized on Ancestry has her admission but not a discharge, I'm wondering as the workhouses continued after 1913 whether there are other admission and discharge books for that workhouse in existence past 1913? Did people get transferred between workhouses and if so how would I track that down? If there is not a discharge for her would this indicate that she remained and perhaps died in the workhouse?

many thanks for any help anyone can provide to point me in the right direction about this. Unfortunately I can't visit any of the places that hold the records.

[Bookbox]

The admission record shows that she was ill and destitute, and she was admitted by the Relieving Officer (RO).

Records for the Edgware workhouse (later known as the Redhill Institution) up to the 1940s are held at London Metropolitan Archives, as part of the Hendon Board of Guardians series (BG/H), but relatively few are online for these later dates. Inmates were often transferred between workhouses, as their needs, or those of the institution, changed.

You will probably need to get research done at LMA, either by their paid research service or by someone visiting there on your behalf. Perhaps try posting a request on the London and Middlesex lookups board, linking to this thread?
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/london-middlesex-lookup-requests/

ADDED - she was apparently discharged 6 weeks later, on 10 October 1913, at her 'own request' (indexed as Jeffress). No destination stated.

[Driftygirl]

Thank you so much for translating the information on the workhouse record for me, and finding her discharge a few weeks later! I'd looked but couldn't find her. I certainly will try a post in the  London and Middlesex lookups board for starters as I would dearly like to know what happened to my grandmother in the end.

Once again thank you for all your trouble in answering my questions and also finding her discharge.

[dawnsh]

subsequent topic here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=751650.0