Birth Cert Registration district Whitechapel Union ???

[Guest]

I have not seen this on one before is it unusual ???

[Elaine ..Spain]

Not heard of it as a registration district. Where have you found the reference to it?

[Stacky]

I think it was an East London Workhouse.

[Guest]

you know the bit where it says registration district on the left of the cert ?? the name is in the middle I did wonder about a workhouse ?

[maggie_4_7]

It would be the Whitechapel workhouse OH's great great grandfather aged 8 and his brother aged 12 was in there on the 1841 census

It would have been known as Whitechapel Union Workhouse.

[Guest]

Thanks everyone I emailed Peter who runs the Workhouse site and it seems its not a workhouse .

[Little Nell]

Whitechapel did have a workhouse

The Workhouse - www.workhouses.org.uk

[JudithM]

If its in the section for Registration district, or sub district it would refer to the whole area covered by the Whitechapel poor law union, not just the union workhouse.

[kylejustin]

my ancestor was born in 1859, district was 'reeth union', but the indexes only gave 'reeth'. is this the same thing?