Workhouse Guestbook Entries for 2000
Thanks for visiting The Workhouse web-site at www.workhouses.org.uk.My great Grand mother was in the St Asaph Workhouse to have her illigitimate dau in Sept 1872, She and her huband Thomas Abbot were to die there in 1927 and 1931 at the hospital side of it . So thank you for providing me with a picture of the place she laboured. A truly wonderful site and most informative Many thanks for all the work on our behalf. Mary Mc Farlane. Great Gran was Elizabeth Anne Roberts.
Mary Elizabeth Lee (Mc Farlane) <leekid@btinternet.com>
wrecsam UK - 2000-12-31 19:39
exellent site thank you very much for extracting history
peter anthony hope <plhope@our.net.au>
wynyard, tasmania australia - 2000-12-31 03:30
I happened upon your fantastic site quite by accident when I signed onto an Ulster mailing list. After reading all the well-presented information and looking at the photos (some heart-breaking, especially all the little old ladies squashed together in the dining hall), I am now wondering if my great-grandmother, Margaret Birch, who came from Cashel, Co. Tipperary was born in the work-house in 1846 since her mother's name was McLaughlin and there apparently was no husband named Birch. What some of our ancestors endured!! Thankyou for all your work; this is a great resource for any researcher.
Pat Hocker <p.hocker@home.com>
B.C. Canada - 2000-12-30 20:46
Hi Peter. Well done for getting such an excellent site in memory of the Workhouses. My brother, Cillian, reconstructed part of the remaining interior of the Dromore West workhouse. I live across the road and its a building that has a new life. I'll send you some pics sometime. Bye Steve Rogers.
Steve Rogers <stevtris@iol.ie>
Ireland - 2000-12-25 23:18
My visit to the Romford website led me here. I often heard my mother talk about "the poor house," and wondered what she was talking about. I think I now understand. This is a wonderful, informative site. Thank you for educating me!
DAZ Moran <dazmoran@msn.com>
Tucson, Arizona USA - 2000-12-22 14:55
Hi its me again told ya I'd b back Yet again I have used this site for info for my school project and this was on a totaly different subject. I was amazed to see the amount of people who have commented on the site and I have noticed a few school friends in with them. Please keep adding to the site because Im sure I will b back again see ya soon dudes!!!!! luv amy :-) :-( :-o
Amy <amyncyd@tesco.net>
York, Yorkshire UK - 2000-12-21 19:55
Fascinating site. Some of my relatives from the Wildman family spent time in a workhouse as children. Your efforts are appreciated.
Chris Dalby <cdalby@saturn.tlug.org>
Newmarket, Ontario Canada - 2000-12-21 15:31
I just found your site listed in Cyndi's List and was very impressed. I grew up very near to Crumpsall Hospital, what was the Manchester Workhouse and recently discovered that my great grandmother died there in 1923. My grandmother, who died in the hospital in 1972, always referred to it as the workhouse. I'm going to tell my siblings, who are teachers in the Manchester area, to check out your site. Joan Johnston
Joan Johnston <nycjs@erols.com>
New York, US - 2000-12-20 20:19
A brilliant website.It was a great help for my history coursework.Do you have any further information on the workhouse in Boston?If so this would be a great help. Thanks again Emily.
Emily Dix <dixie.chick@breathe.com>
Boston, Lincolnshire UK - 2000-12-19 22:33
Well done and congratulations. A superb, well laid out site;, thoroughly informative and accessable. My year 5 class are have explored the site, especially the excellent tour, as part of their study of the Victorians and Charles Dickens, and enjoyed it a great deal.
Richard Pollock <rbpollock@hotmail.com>
Manchester, UK - 2000-12-07 16:16
What an excellent site, I searched high and low for a site on Workhouses and found nothing, so I attempted to make one myself. It is nothing compared to your site I am afraid:-)- your site is so well presented with lots of excellent information and wonderful photographs.. Thanks for sharing it!!
Jeannie <jhodkinson@hotmail.com>
Perth, Australia - 2000-12-07 15:42
Well written, easy to understand and excellent use of primary sources. As a museum educator i will be recommending this site!!!! I visited a workhouse in Southall, Nottingham, which is under development and is planning to be reopened as a workhouse museum site in about a year. Have you every considered making a web link?
Lynn Podmore <Lynnp@onet.co.uk>
Chester, Cheshire UK - 2000-12-02 13:38
I Think this website is ace It really helped me with my schoolwork coz we were investigating workhouses for a history assessment I have one thing 2 say I'll b back :-) from amy :*)
Amy <amyncyd@tesconet.com>
York, Yorkshire UK - 2000-11-28 15:17
This website is really good.I never knew some of the stuff that I found out 2day!It really helped me with my year 9 assessment.Ill be cuming back to this site later.LATER DUDES!!!!!!
Hollie <nickyb@tinyonline.co.uk>
york, yorkshire UK - 2000-11-28 15:14
this web site has been very usfull for my year 9 assesment on workhouses. the [pages displayed with pictures wer very good and i'm definatly coming on here again later dudes!!!!!!!!! rach
Rachael <nickyb@tinyonline.co.uk>
york, yorkshire UK - 2000-11-28 15:14
Hello this is cool i hope you do well in the future
Bob Hoskins <fartingpaul@hotmail.com>
York, Yorkshire UK - 2000-11-28 14:43
What a wonderful and interesting site. I have recently discovered my g-g-g-grandparents were in the Caistor Union at the time of the 1851 census and became interested in the Poor Laws. I have searched the internet for information and your site which I found through UK Genealogy News is the best I have found.
Chris Barrett <cbarrett@wave.co.nz>
HAMILTON, New Zealand - 2000-11-26 04:46
australia must have been heaven on earth for convicts sent here, after living in workhouse conditions .great site.
ray tilbury <rosray@telstrabigpond.com>
perth, w.a australia - 2000-11-23 21:11
What a great site. The presentation is so pleasing to the eye and so much information. I am so pleased to have found your site and say "congratulations"!
Marjorie Keates <akeates@adan.kingston.net>
Elgin, Ontario Canada - 2000-11-23 16:33
do you have any infomation about the riots in buckinghamshire eg high wycombe? thankyou
jennie
uk, bucks UK - 2000-11-23 16:08
I am rather confused, was the Barton Regis workhouse the same as the Bristol workhouse? I have looked at the photos and they appear to be the same as those on Blackberry Hill for both??? Am I mistaken? After mmany days reading your site, I still have not finished, utterly fascinating, the best website I have seen, in fact maybe this is the first of 'virtual museums' this is what the internet is all about! Thank you.
nikki Gillett <nikki-gillettlineone.net>
Bristol, UK - 2000-11-22 19:31
What a beautifully presented site! I particularly enjoyed the maps and the part with photos of workhouses. I hope you receive many more contributions. The information on daily life for paupers was very revealing.
Kate Britt-Hazard <kate.bh@virgin.net>
Leytonstone, London UK - 2000-11-22 17:51
I am most impressed with your research and presentation. I am searching for information about masters of workhouses. My ancestor Samuel Chappell was a master of the Bichester workhouse, Oxfordshire. He died there 3 days after his wife Mary, in March 1785, both of fever. I would like to more about his duties as a master.
Elizabeth Kraus <greliz@bigpond.com>
Geelong, Victoria Australia - 2000-11-19 12:10
Stumbled across your site by accident and I am glad that I did!! What a wonderful site. Informatative, interesting and superbly presented. Well done! Do you not have any information on workhouses from the Bristol area?
Nikki G <nikki-gillett@lineone.net>
Bristol, UK - 2000-11-19 02:55
We have recently moved into the gatehouse of what was erected as Battle Workhouse in 1840.The architect was Frederick Thatcher one of the original 12 members of the RIBA.He later emigrated to New Zealand.I am very interested to learn about workhouses in general and this one in particular and I appreciate any information which can be given.I find this a very informative site with up-to-date information.
Sheila Wilkinson <sheila_wilkinson@hotmail.com>
Battle, East Sussex UK - 2000-11-19 01:01
Saw your site in "Computers in Geneaolgy" publiocation of the S.O.G., and how very imteresting. I may now be able to investigate further stories within our famo#ily that some of our earliest ancestors (mid 1800s) were in Norwich's Workhouse
Jim Martin <jmartin@jimmym.f9.co.uk>
Birkenhead, Merseyside UK - 2000-11-18 21:09
What a truly amazing site. Like many others, I have recently discovered that my Grandfather was born in the Newton Abbot workhouse in Devon. I am unable to find out anything at all about this workouse and would love to hear from anyone that has managed to obtain information. Thanks.
Ian Braithwaite <ian_braithwaite2@hotmail.com>
London, UK - 2000-11-17 23:10
We are pupils at St.Elphin's school, Darly Dale. We have had to come down to the I.T room to look up the web site and we do admitt the pictures are interesting but there should be more!
Katie-May Godkin, Gianna Grossi
Derbyshire UK - 2000-11-17 11:15
we are students at st. elphins school we have been made to look at this page by our history teacher
lauren, sian and sally
matlock, derbyshire UK - 2000-11-17 11:13
Great site, I'm searching to locate where and when my grandfather arrived here in Canada, he was born appox.1884 in the UK. said he arrived here in Canada at the age of 16 or 17, that would make the year1900 to 1901. He always said he came from the Barnardo Home, but after a years search, they have no record of him. I sure could use some help, any information would be appreciated. Regards Jim Baird.
Jim Baird <jbaird@uni-line.com>
Mississauga, Ontario Canada - 2000-11-15 21:14
What a wonderful site, I have and will find it very useful. Well done for all your hard work. Sarah Minney
Sarah Minney <andrew.minney@btinternet.com>
Twickenham, Middlesex UK - 2000-11-15 20:50
This is a well thought out and original website - well done Peter! A section covering additional photographic material would be helpful - I'm trying to get a photograph of Aylsham Workhouse in Norfolk, but I suppose few examples exist because by their very nature they were not places to be treasured!
Gerald Peck <mail@meridianhouse.freeserve.co.uk>
Northampton, Northants UK - 2000-11-14 22:59
Absolutely fascinating site. In the Education section, I was thrilled to find the explanation of the British & Foreign School Society that my 2g-grandfather worked for in both Tavistock, Devonshire (around 1840), and Southwark, London, on Borough Road (about 1842-1853)! I have a business card of the Society. Thank you so very much for all your work in putting this site together and maintaining it.
Nancy Roney Mitchell <tnmitchell@juno.com>
Orem, Utah USA - 2000-11-12 00:09
This site is fascinating. I hadn't planned to visit but you have stirred my interest. My grandmother, Susan Hellier, was on the Board of Guardians for the East Preston workhouse. I'm not sure when but think it must have been in the 1920s - I shall now try and find out more.
megan jones <meganjones@beeb.net>
UK - 2000-11-11 11:59
Fantastic site - I have spent some while in the past getting the flavour of the workhouse (my Ripper family spent time in Hapmstead & Mint Street Southwark workhouses) and this site confirms the mental pivtures i had drawn for myself. Excellent. I have an interesting birth certificate showing my gt gt gt aunt Mary Ann being born in the workhouse at 09:00am on Christmas Day 1849. It was Christmas Day in the workhouse ...
ken ripper <kenripper@btinternet.com>
Ware, Herts UK - 2000-11-11 07:51
Great site!I discovered a few years ago that my GGGgrandparents, Charles and Sarah Compton, died at the Union Workhouse in Britford. This site helps explain why they were there and how they lived. Thanks
Tom Melton <rmelton@compuage.com>
Seymour, Indiana USA - 2000-11-10 20:51
Fascinating - I looked at this site as I recently discovered that my grandmother was an orphan, brought up in a workhouse. A glimpse of how she might have spent her early years makes me weep.
glenda atley <glenda.atley@ic24.net>
Newbury, Berks UK - 2000-11-05 17:44
Excellent site. I'm researching Hackney workhouse, Lower Homerton, London where my great grandfather, Henry Tate, was born in 1846.The workhouse Master, Wm. Bruce, registered his birth; I wonder why not his mother, Ann. No father is given on the birth cert although Henry later states on his marriage cert. that his father is George.I understand that no records of the Workhouse remain for this time except for a few settlement records for St. Johns.
marie <mariejohn@btinternet.com>
UK - 2000-11-02 21:28
Thanks Peter, I am trying to learn what Eng. was like in the 1800's and your information is very informative. Thanks Bridget DRAPER
Bridget Wilkinson <lincsimp@dove.net.au>
Southend, S Australia Australia - 2000-10-29 04:26
Peter, this is an excellent site and the hard work in putting it togethe, as well as its continuous maintenance, serves testament to your selfless dedication in keeping people like myself informed of our past. I am presently researching a book I wish to write which is to be set in the place of my birth, Liverpool. I am saddened that my research uncovers so few archives for a city (Liverpool) that is steeped in the Victorian period (I still have all the mental imgaes of the still-standing workhourses). I still search for references on Victorian Medicine and Surgical Techniques (hence how I came across your web site) and my search still continues. I reamin hopeful and undaunted because I need such references in order to complete my research. Do keep up the good work and I have noted the URL so that I will often return. Best wishes, Peter Adamson.
Peter Adamson <padamson@bit.net.au>
Brisbane, Queensland Australia - 2000-10-29 00:56
Very interesting well put together site. Interested to see some photographs of Maidenhead/Cookham Union now St Mark's Hospital. Best wishes for future developments. Judith Mitchell
Mitchell <quentin.mitchell@dial.pipex.com>
Maidenhead, Berks UK - 2000-10-28 20:47
Unable to access your redords.What a pity.I am researcjhing whether my grandfasher was instituted at the caernafron workhouse in the region of 1888/89 caan you help?Pat lee JOnes
pat lee jones <plj@ceredigion.gov.uk>
ceredigion UK - 2000-10-28 20:43
An excellent site, but under the heading of Derbyshire do you include Mickleover? My maternal grandmother - Ada Warner b.1/9/1892, as a child, had to have her appendix removed, and was taken to the Manor Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, she was very upset as she new it by it's previous name, 'The Spike' or workhouse. I worked there in the 60's. and even as a hospital it was a most forbidding place, it has long since been pulled down and a supermarket and restaurant now inhabit the site.
Philip Birks <pabirks@hotmail.com>
UK - 2000-10-26 06:41
As someone who has recently discovered some ancestors had lived and been born in a workhouse, I found your site most illuminating. Many thanks for all your hard work on our behalf.
Minella Gunner <Mingunner@aol.com>
Perthshire, Scotland UK - 2000-10-25 09:22
Dear Peter As a lecturer in social policy at North East Wales Institute in Wrexham, this is an exclellent resource for my students. Keep up the good work. Best Wishes, Lester Parrott
Lester Parrott <l.parott@newi.ac.uk>
UK - 2000-10-24 16:50
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