Secrets From The Workhouse

[sigma]

After watching the programme, ITV Tuesday 25th, how many family tree researchers suspect their ancestors went for dissection rather than burial.

[March-Hare]

I am thankful that I haven't traced any ancestors with the workhouse are their last known address before date of death ............ however, I do have a relative who died in prison, so I am wondering which his fate would have been???

[DJHawkes]

None of mine died in the workhouse, not any direct ones and none anyway. On my kids paternal sode a great great great grandfather of theirs did die in a Poplar work house hospital but he was never an inmate.

[sigma]

My 2nd great grandfather died in Shardlow Union Workhouse in 1910.
Unfortunately the workhouse records no longer exist.
and the husband of my 3rd great grand aunt died in Nottingham workhouse infirmary in 1911
Both outlived their spouses but I don't know if relatives came forward to claim the bodies and arrange funerals.

[ironmonger]

One of my ancestors was admitted to a workhouse Infirmary in 1899 but died the next day. My parents told me this was because his family could not afford to get him to a Doctor or Hospital as they were all unemployed.
I do recall when I was a lot younger people had to be employed to be able to obtain a voucher for treatment. A family member could help if they were
working. Thank God for the NHS.
This ancestor of mine was not sent for dissection as I know he his buried in a local cemetery

[March-Hare]

Have you checked local graveyard records Sigma .... or is it too vast an area ?