Showing posts with label Workhouses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Workhouses. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Workhouses

Did any of your ancestors find themselves in a workhouse?  Want to know more about the conditions and how workhouses operated?  Here are a few sites for information about and records of workhouses.
Workhouses & Institutions - www.institutions.org.uk/
Workhouse records - www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?records/records.shtml
Union Workhouse - www.judandk.force9.co.uk/workhouse.html
C19th American Poorhouses - www.poorhousehistory.com/