Genealogy Chat

I found a website about schools in a family tree magazine. It had quite a good section on workhouses,,,has pics and details of workhouse life, I guess many of you will know that details already but here's the address for those who dont... www.missing-ancestors.com

Hi Claire First impressions on this site are good! Have bookmarked it for later as I've got to take the kids to their football match now. Does anybody know if parents are entitled to a day off a week?!!!! My kids have more of a social life than I do! Sam

Hi Claire I have been on this site as my Gt Grandad died in our workhouse so wanted to find out more about the life they had. Sam No you won't get a day off until they leave home and then?????!!!! Ann,Darlington

.....and when they leave home you'll start with grand kids!! Maggy

margaret how right you are!!! mine left home but they visit every day bringing their kiddies with them!!! i love it though,really miss them if they dont come...am i mad claire visited the sit,brilliant!! just waiting for the buckinghamshire inmates to be added

Mine both left home - and CAME BACK AGAIN - ARRGGH. One is nursing and works nights so is home most of the day. The other is at College on what they laughingly call a full-time course and is home from Thursday afternoon to Monday morning. Mind you i'm with the other Susan I realy do enjoy having them around - except when we argue over whos turn it is to use the 'putor. LOL Sue.

hi i don,t seem to beable to access the site, it says page missing, is it tempremental ( is that how you spell it ) my children have left home and now one and only granchild going to live in spain, why are they so excited when we arn,t marcie

Claire, how did you get that website address through without the usual use of brackets, etc

Hi Helen I just typed in www.missing-ancestors.com Are you having trouble with the website? Let me know and I check the magazine again,

Dear Mary Thanks for this info and your other links. Is there a similar site for Scottish Workhouses ? I am trying to piece together the life of a Great Aunt of mine , Ada Wheeler, whose mum died when she was 4. Ada never married and ended her days in service in an Edinburgh Household as a 75 year old chamber maid so at least she survived! Her father had been a Jeweller in Glasgow and was in his sixties when he died. It was a second marriage and it looks like the older sons of the first marriage cast Ada and her mother out onto the streets. My Great Grandad Ada's full brother Andrew was 16 when his mum died in the Glasgow Workhouse and went on to greater things but I wonder what happened to children like Ada ? I am very interested as she died the year I was born (1947)but was never mentioned by my father or his mother, who would have been Ada's neice. Perhaps they didn't know she existed ! Any clues as to how to find out about her would be greatly appreciated. Kathleen