Genealogy Chat

Thank you Hawkwind for the information. I didn't realise people were moved to workhouses when they were dying because there was nobody to care for them.

How very sad for your great grandma to be moved to a mental home, as late as 1918. How awful for the family especially not being told why she was put there.

Thank you also Somerset Girl and Quinsgran for looking for me and sorry for the late reply but have just logged on again.

Barbara

On the 1881 census Martha is born 1835

The fact he died in the workhouse does not necessarily mean that he or any of his family were ever inmates there. People on their death bed were often moved there because there was no other care option in those days.

The same sort of thing happened 20 or 30 years later when people were found to have died in mental hospitals. Again, there was no where else to care for someone on their death bed.

This actually happened to my great grandma in 1918. No one told the family the real reason she was put in the mental home. The family said for years it was a miscarriage of justice. In fact she had terminal kidney failure.

Very sad.

Her name is Martha Johnson b. 1830 in Liverpool. In 1881 and 1901 she was living in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.Her husband's name was Edward b. 1841 in Ireland, but don't know the county. Thanks for the offer.

Barbara

Thanks Jonesey have done that but no luck. Perhaps gg grandmother wasn't in workhouse in 1891 but can't find her anywhere. Will keep trying though.

Barbara

Does anybody know if the 1891 census contains details of workhouse inmates. I have been unable to locate my gg grandparents on the 1891 census. I then found a record of death which I think may be my gg grandfather and he died in the workhouse in 1889, so I was wondering if my gg grandmother was there in 1891. She turned up on the 1901 census as a widow living with her son and his family. I have found details of the 1881 workhouse census but nothing for 1891. Perhaps somebody knows the answer.

Many thanks,

Barbara