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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Warwickshire => Topic started by: Andy_C on Thursday 28 August 08 10:31 BST (UK)
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Anyone know if there are records of 'inmates' for the Rugby Workhouse?
Neither National Archives nor the Warwick CRO online catalogues seem to list anything useful.
I'm interested in the period around 1893-1895. Trying to locate my g grandfather (and family) who seems to be missing off the electoral registers for 1894 and 1895.
I know that there could well be other reasons for him not being on the register, I believe that tenants and lodgers had to be resident for 12 months to be eligible to vote. However I do know that the family was in difficulty and at least one son was sent to the Shaftesbury Farm School at Bisley, Surrey.
Andy_C
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hi andy do you have any names?
kerry
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Andy-C,
You could try Jeff Knaggs site for Institutions .
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/Instuts.html
Although his are for the 1901 Census returns there are links which deal with earlier dates.
Spring
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Yes, the family was:
Norman CLARKE (42)
Emily Gertrude CLARKE (37)
Harold Heward CLARKE (14)
Gertrude Ethel CLARKE (13)
Cecil Norman CLARKE (9)
Clifford Norman CLARKE (5)
Approx ages for 1893 given in brackets.
A second daughter, Doris, was born in 1895
Andy_C
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Andy-C,
You could try Jeff Knaggs site for Institutions .
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/Instuts.html
Although his are for the 1901 Census returns there are links which deal with earlier dates.
Spring
The family are still on the farm in the 1891 census, and Norman is listed there on the electoral register up to the one for 1893. The electoral registers from 1896 to 1901 have him at a couple of different addresses in Rugby: Cambridge Street and Craven Road. The 1901 census has him at Craven Road, occupation general labourer.
So it's really the years 1893-5 which are unaccounted for.
Andy_C
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My 2nd great grandfather, George Croft, was the "warden" of the Rugby Workhouse. I am trying to find the name of my great grandmother who was either a servent or inmate there. DNA shows that George's son, Sydney Herbert, was my great grandfather who got her pregnant and then left the country.
She died in the Birmingham slums, my grandfather Herbert William McCave, was sent to the Morewood Orphanage in Birmingham. They shipped him off as a British Home Child to Canada.
Thank heavens he came to the US, went to college and married my British grandmother who was living in Amherst, MA.
I know there are lists of "inmates" but I haven't seen all. If you do find the name of McCave on anything you research, I would appreciate the information.
Rebecca