(Sutton) workhouse

[Ruskie]

I agree with George. Ask a moderator to move this to the Lancs board - there's bound to be someone there who can help you.

[BashLad]

Sutton workhouse was at Marshall's Cross where new street crosses the railway line near Lea Green Station.

On the 1851 census (Class: HO107; Piece: 2194; Folio: 111; Page: 20) you've got a John Knight, born at Bold ancestry transcribed it as Wold, who was a tailor's apprentice (or something-quite unclear) living somewhere at Widnes with a boss who is a tailor and a journeyman tailor. So perhaps the boss guy got his apprentices out of the workhouse - very common in the period (cheap labour).

Bold is about a mile from sutton workhouse (as the crow flies).

And on Lanopc there is this entry:

John Knight baptised 2 February 1836 at St Wilfrid, Farnworth near Prescot. Son of Mary Knight (single woman) living at Bold.

So that's where I'd put my money.

(This looks like him in 1861:Class: RG9; Piece: 2598; Folio: 58; Page: 4)