Dublin Workhouse records online on FindMyPast

[hasta]

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but today noticed the digitised records for the Dublin union workhouses have appeared on FindMyPast.
They include the Admissions and Discharge Registers and the Guardians Minute Books for the North and South Union Workhouses, as well as Rathdown and Balrothery - all with images.

[grizzly1]

Thank you Hasta for that info, which should get a lot of interest.

[emmsthheight]

Thank you hasta.

i'll be having a look at that!

Emms

[taramcdsmall]

Blimey Blimey Blimey

Hasta Thank You So Much For This Update !

I have found LOADS already.

 

Tara

[taramcdsmall]

 

Crying Now ~

While excited to see more records for family it sure brings to life how hard a time some of our ancestors had.

Tara

[trelawn1984]

I have been tinkering around with these records for days and have managed to find my elusive Eliza/Lizzie Dowd/Barrett/Saul in there in 1910/1911 with her young daughter as she is about to give birth to her second daughter. When I can figure out how to crop the record I will be uploading it for some deciphering help. I also found a set of twins born to my great great grandmother that I knew nothing about. Bit disconcerting to see them described in the books as "the bastard child of 2740" though : (

Amy

[taramcdsmall]

Hi Amy

I think a lot of us have come across records with the dreaded 'B' word on them.

I just keep trying to remember that it was another time !

Great to hear though that you've had success finding records.

I'm amazed at the amount of information that I've gotten from them !

Tara

[trelawn1984]

Hi Tara,

It's true what you say, you sort of have to overlook the terminology and just be glad for another piece of the puzzle. I have managed to get small tidbits about Elizabeth that have been eluding me for nearly two years. As she doesn't appear on the 1911 census I didn't know where her or her girls were from around 1907 to 1914. Thanks to the workhouse records I have an address which turns out to be three doors away from her future brother in law! Also living on that street is the family of one of the witnesses to her marriage in 1914. It just fills in some blanks for me.

Amy

[taramcdsmall]

Hi Amy,

That's EXACTLY what the records are doing for me too.

Filling in missing years ~ getting connections and getting leads.

HA I thought I was at the end of the road with my tree ~ once again I'm staying up WAY too late ploughing through all this gold 

Tara