Was every poor relief workhouse order succeeded?

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Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1,401 Send Message	Benjamin	Report	10 Jun 2008 20:51
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1,401 Send Message	Hi In December 1878 my ancestors applied for poor relief due to destitution after losing money on a beer house. They were living at 69 Leather Lane in Holborn, London. In 1881 they were just round the corner at No 9 Portpool Lane. The 1878 application gives the husband wife and all the children and it also says that they became chargeable to Clerkenwell, probably they were to pay for their relief yet in the "Whether husband, wife, children sent to workhouse or asylum" it says "yes". There is a composite register of all the admissions and discharges of every workhouse in the Holborn and Clerkenwell area for that period of time, yet I cannot find any reference to my ancestors entering any workhouse etc. Does this mean that not every workhouse admission order or offer was executed? By 1881 the head was a watchman and two of his children were tailoresses. Could they have changed their mind about entering the workhouse at the last minute etc??? Thanks Ben