Hi
On the 1911 Census I found one of my Gt.Grandmother's, Sarah Ann Tiffin (b.1849 Bethnal Green) living in the Bethnal Green Workhouse. I believe she may have been there for a very long time
because the last time I am able to find here is in 1891 living in poverty as a boarder with second husband Thomas George Tiffin in the infamous Flower & Dean Street Spitalfields.
Try as I might I cannot find her in 1901. In 1911 she is a widow again.
I then decided to search for her death following the 1911 discovery and the only one which matched was a death in Watford. I scratched my head for a while as to what she might
have been doing in Watford of all places, then the penny dropped, was there a workhouse there ? and sure enough there was.
Does anyone one know if it was a usual practice to transfer from one workhouse to another?
dreen22
On the 1911 Census I found one of my Gt.Grandmother's, Sarah Ann Tiffin (b.1849 Bethnal Green) living in the Bethnal Green Workhouse. I believe she may have been there for a very long time
because the last time I am able to find here is in 1891 living in poverty as a boarder with second husband Thomas George Tiffin in the infamous Flower & Dean Street Spitalfields.
Try as I might I cannot find her in 1901. In 1911 she is a widow again.
I then decided to search for her death following the 1911 discovery and the only one which matched was a death in Watford. I scratched my head for a while as to what she might
have been doing in Watford of all places, then the penny dropped, was there a workhouse there ? and sure enough there was.
Does anyone one know if it was a usual practice to transfer from one workhouse to another?
dreen22
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