Hornsey Workhouse before 1837 Poor laws

[Cuey]

Hello all,
I'm still fairly new to the family tree stuff but i'm making great inroads. I have My "lots of greats" Grandmother being born in March 1815. I had to check the church records and and luckily Hornsey was a village back then. It says she was

Daughter to Martha Dimbleby - Iligitimate - Place of birth Hornsey Workhouse

I'm struggling to find out anything about this place as it was knocked down in the 1850s and a new one built in Edmonton.

Can anyone tell me anything about it and what records where kept back then. Is there a chance they still exist so i could find out more about Marthas circumstances. I know nothing about her so if the record contained a place of birth that would set me on my way to finding out about her.

Thanks all

[Cuey]

Sorry thats Hornsey in Middlesex. Its now part of Haringey but it was a village in 1800s

[ElaineMaul]

Hi Cuey,

I never usually manage to offer any help here as others always get there before me!:D

So ...... a site I found very useful is :
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/
I am due to rush out any minute, so haven't checked over the site to see if it says anything about Hornsey, but it's an interesting site all the same.

By the way, I think any records may well be at Bruce Grove Museum in Tottenham; that's where the Haringey Local History library is....... my neck of the woods when I was a child!

Hope the site helps.
Elaine

[Cuey]

Thanks for that. I've had a read but unfortunately it mostly covers the workhuoses after 1837. Before that, there where smaller parish workhouses (Hornsey being one) these where mostly closed because 1837 Poor law made provision for bigger area ones. Its the old parish workhouse i need to know about because thats where Martha gave birth to Grace. It still makes interesting reading though. Thanks

[Peter Goodey]

The ancient parish of Hornsey was St Mary, is that right?

If any records have survived they'll presumably be with the parish records at the London Metropolitan Archives.

Neither their online catalogue nor A2A hold out much hope, perhaps you can spot something -

http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/documentxsl.asp?stylesheet=xsl\A2A_doc.xsl&i=0&com=1&nbKey=1&keyword=hornsey+AND+workhouse (http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/documentxsl.asp?stylesheet=xslA2A_doc.xsl&i=0&com=1&nbKey=1&keyword=hornsey+AND+workhouse)

But not everything is in online catalogues, you'll have to contact LMA to find out what they might have.

[peterh]

There is some general information about the Hornsey parish workhouse(s) in the article at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22525
All best wishes,
Peter