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sue2white
21-08-2008, 9:57 AM
Hi

I believe my 2nd gt grandmother may have been in Upton Workhouse as a child in 1841.

Does anybody know whether there are any records of the workhouse in existance (other than census records); where they might be and how to access them?

Thanks
Sue

bumblebee
21-08-2008, 10:21 AM
I would contact the Worcester Record Office and make enquiries about what they hold.

Bumblebee

Peter Goodey
21-08-2008, 10:24 AM
The workhouse birth register 1836-1866 has survived and is at the county record office.

For reasons that may or may not be obvious, workhouse births stood a very high chance of being officially registered and therefore included in the GRO indexes.

sue2white
21-08-2008, 11:41 AM
Thanks for those replies.

I believe she was born before 1836 though.

I'll email the record office. Thanks.
Sue

Peter Goodey
21-08-2008, 11:57 AM
The only other records that might be relevant are the out relief documents 1836-1848.