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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Laois (Queens) => Topic started by: Trishmcc23 on Wednesday 22 June 16 06:09 BST (UK)
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Recently had a death transcription done for my grandfather, James Walsh, hoping to get some more information. It showed he was born in Queens County, Ireland around 1842 and came to Victoria Australia around 1865. Don't know if he was an assisted passenger or not. However the transcription also showed his father was James Walsh shown as Governor of Maryborough Workhouse. His mother was Bridget Connolly. I can only find Maryborough Prison and don't know where I might find registers of staff to find any record of my great great grandfather. I would also like to find on what ship my great grandfather came to Australia.
Thanks for any help you may be able to give.
Trishmcc
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There doesn't appear to have been a workhouse in Maryborough/Portlaoise. There was the prison and a Luantic Asylum.
Searching for Maryborough or Portlaoise Workhouse brings up results for Donaghmore Workhouse which a bit outside the town.
http://www.donaghmoremuseum.com/
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Hi Sinann nice to hear from you. I saw that about Maryborough and Donaghmore but I don't know where to look to find staff records to see if I can find James Walsh. Any ideas?
Trish
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Try contacting the museum, they should at least know if records survive.
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Dear Sinann - thank you very much for the suggestion.
Trish
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Findmypast has a
James Walsh; (19)
Mountmellick Petty Sessions; 1862
Assault; 2/6-/or 7 days (served time)
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Jack
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Dear Jack thank you for that information I will check it further.
Trish
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Hi,
Maryborough was the original name of Portlaoise.
Maggsie
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Maryborough was part of the Mountmellick Poor Law Union from 1839. The people of Maryborough would have had to go to the Mountmellick workhouse.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Mountmellick/
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Maryborough was part of the Mountmellick Poor Law Union from 1839. The people of Maryborough would have had to go to the Mountmellick workhouse.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Mountmellick/
That is s a very good site, nice one ShaunJ, thanks.
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To Sinann and Shaun J - Thank you so much for the information. I will look at that today. Hopefully some information about my Walsh GG and GGG will show up.
Trish
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Trish,
Not sure if you've managed to research this further. I come from Queen's Co (Laois), so I have some local knowledge I can pass on.
There were three workhouses in Queen's County in the Nineteenth Century, Donaghmore, Abbeyleix and Mountmellick. For Maryborough (Portlaoise), people would have gone to Mountmellick Workhouse.
Each poor law union was governed by a Board of Guardians. This board would meet and a weekly basis and minute books of these meetings were kept and many survive today. So for Maryborough you would need to consult the Minute books for the Mountmellick.
Unfortunately these minute books are only held by the Local Studies for each County, so Laois Local studies would be the place to go to determine firstly if Minute books exist for the time period you are researching, and secondly how these books can be accessed.
I know that Mountmellick Board of Guardian books do exist,but I don't know for what period, and they can only be accessed in person in Laois Local studies centre in Portlaoise. Maybe one of the librarians there can assist you further.
As another poster replied earlier. The only other establishments in Maryborough was the County Gaol, The County Lunatic Asylum and later on the County Hospital.
Maryborough Gaol opened in August of 1830, the Governors were as follows :
1830-1851 Archibald Wilson
1851-1869 James Young
1869-1871 Captain J.H. Healey
1871-1893 Arthur C. Bulkeley
1893-1902 John Condon
So your relative to my knowledge definitely wasn't the Governor there :) I don't know about the other institutions.
Best of luck
Matt