I wrote a series of 3 blog posts on our relative John Christianson who was a home child. There are several links on these posts that may be helpful in your research.
Most of the records I found about my ancestors who were in the workhouse were on ancestry.com. The workhouse actually kept very good records of the people going in and going out.
I hope this is helpful to anyone researching this very interesting time in history.
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by Karin Naylor
Dec 18, 2011
I wrote a series of 3 blog posts on our relative John Christianson who was a home child. There are several links on these posts that may be helpful in your research.
This first link is a post about the Workhouse...
http://longagofamily.wordpress.com/naylor/the-workhouse-john-christ...
And this one is about Home Children...
http://longagofamily.wordpress.com/naylor/the-workhouse-john-christ...
Most of the records I found about my ancestors who were in the workhouse were on ancestry.com. The workhouse actually kept very good records of the people going in and going out.
I hope this is helpful to anyone researching this very interesting time in history.