Hi,
No my grandfather didn’t go with his mother Mary Emma into the Birmingham workhouse, according to my mum he rarely spoke about his childhood and never really knew his mother as she was 24 when she died. Mary Emma’s sister then took him to be raised with her in Birkenhead and he stayed there until he was about 34 years old, he then returned back to Birmingham in 1949 with his wife and 2 year old daughter Jean.