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Does anyone have any information about Newington Workhouse, Walworth Road, South East London? My grandmother, May Russell was born there in 1901 - by her birth certificate I have established she was illegitimate so I am trying to work out whether or not my Great Grandmother Ethel Russell (1875-1938) was actually living in the Workhouse anyway at the time or was just admitted there to have the baby (my grandmother) as she was unmarried.. does anyone know anything about workhouses and illegitimate babies / unmarried mothers at this period? All help gratefully received, thank you ...

Have a google for it!! Google search for anything and everything.

If you enter Newington Workhouse you come up with pages of info. Even Charlie Chaplin was there for a while.

This looks as if it could be Ethel in 1901 as it's the correct area but she wasn't in the workhouse then.

1901 England Census
about Ethel L Russell
Name: Ethel L Russell
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Charles
Mother's Name: Eliza
Gender: Female
Where born: Torpoint, Cornwall, England

Civil Parish: Newington
Ecclesiastical parish: All Souls
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: St Saviour Southwark
Sub registration district: St Peter, Walworth
ED, institution, or vessel: 9
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 129
Household Members: Name Age
Albert E Russell 15
Charles Russell 62
Eliza Russell 56
Ethel L Russell 23
Minnie L Russell 21

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 376; Folio: 119; Page: 17.

Christine

Eleanor,

Try this site. It's usually pretty good for Workhouse background info.

http://www.workhouses.org.uk

RobG

thanks everyone - lots to go on here....