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    Where would records of admissions to Rotherham workhouse be?

    I get mixed up as to which Riding of Yorkshire it is.

  • #2
    West Riding, if that's any help.
    KiteRunner

    Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
    (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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    • #3
      I think the Sheffield Archives might cover Rotherham.

      Anne

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      • #4
        I think Sheffield Archives should cover Rotherham too
        Barbara

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        • #5
          Hi Margaret, Rotherham Archieves also has Rotherham Workhouse records - see the link below.

          Sandra
          Archive Collections

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Sherbertrose View Post
            Hi Margaret, Rotherham Archieves also has Rotherham Workhouse records - see the link below.

            Sandra
            Archive Collections
            Thanks Sandra

            I have added that site to my favourites.

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            • #7
              Just out of interest, whereabouts was the workhouse?
              Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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              • #8
                42 Alma Road and this also gives the 1881 and 1891 census for inmates.

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                • #9
                  I've just had a look at the Google map of Rotherham. The town centre is unrecognisable from my childhood and even looks different from 10 years ago. I just wondered if the workhouse had become one of the (former) hospitals, to which the answer is clearly "no".
                  Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                  • #10
                    Rotherham Workhouse has info on the history of Rotherham Workhouse.

                    Rotherham Union Workhouse

                    says the workhouse hospital became part of Moorgate Hospital which was subsequently demolished.
                    ~ with love from Little Nell~
                    Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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                    • #11
                      That explains it. I think I was an outpatient at Moorgate Hospital once. I had my tonsils out at Doncaster Gate Hospital ( a gruesome experience in those days).
                      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                      • #12
                        Hi Uncle John,

                        As far as I know the only part of the old Moorgate hospital which still exists is a building which became the Florence Nightingale pub in 1983.

                        I also had my tonsils out a Moorgate hospital a memory which still haunts me to this day.

                        My grandfather was one of the first patients to die in the new district General hospital which opened in March 1978. Prior to that a lot of his generation were frightened to go into Moorgate hospital because it had previously been the Workhouse. I think there was a fear that if you went in you didn't come out - and for many old people this was often the case.

                        Sandra

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                        • #13
                          My mother spent some time in Moorgate Hospital in the mid to late 1970s.
                          Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                          • #14
                            One of my ancestors died in Rotherham Workhouse - the death wasn't registered for 13 months!
                            Helen

                            http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...enSmithToo-296

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Helen Smith Too View Post
                              One of my ancestors died in Rotherham Workhouse - the death wasn't registered for 13 months!
                              Oh crikey

                              Rotherham workouse records don't sound too reliable


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