Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Workhouse wedding  (Read 2220 times)

Offline suttontrust

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,850
    • View Profile
Workhouse wedding
« on: Tuesday 03 January 06 16:18 GMT (UK) »
Not exactly a workhouse wedding - they were married in the Register Office.  But I've discovered that a couple in the line I'm tracing, John Tomlinson and Elizabeth Hall, were married on 11/11/1845 in Gainsborough, and the marriage is entered in the Gainsborough Union Workhouse minute book - presumably because one of them was an inmate.  I'm pretty sure it wasn't John.  Does anyone have access to the 1841 census for the area, to see whether Elizabeth was an inmate then?
Many thanks.
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.

Offline ALong

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 3
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Workhouse wedding
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 03 May 07 09:34 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Just joined and came across your post - my Tomlinson interest is around Gainsborough and Torksey too, but not this early I don't think!
Anyway, neither of your people are shown on 1841 Gainsborough Workhouse, but then things changed so quickly then - he/she could have been in for a short time around that wedding date!
Happy FH'ing!
Angi

Offline lizdb

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 25,307
    • View Profile
Re: Workhouse wedding
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 03 May 07 09:51 BST (UK) »
I would guess it is very unlikely the bride and/or groom were inmates when they married as men and women were kept totally separate. More likely they worked there.
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline suttontrust

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,850
    • View Profile
Re: Workhouse wedding
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 03 May 07 09:52 BST (UK) »
Hi, Angi, I think we've corresponded about Tomlinsons.  Thanks for the information.
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.

Offline SheilaM

  • I am sorry but my emails are no longer working
  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,837
    • View Profile
Re: Workhouse wedding
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 03 May 07 10:06 BST (UK) »
Hi Suttontrust

Gainsborough Workhouse is listed on HO107/634/4 but I cannot see either John or Mary on there.

I notice that their parish is stated as Torksey on the marriage notice and did find these 2 families in Torksey.

HO107/647/8
Robert Hall 53, Ag Lab
Esther 55
Elizabeth 20
Alice 12

All born in county.

HO107/647/2
Timothy Tomlinson 50, Ag Lab
Mary 50
John 25, Ag Lab
Ann 20

All born in county except Mary

There is another John Tomlinson in Torskey but he is already married to Mary 20 with a daughter Mary Ann aged 1.

Hope this helps.

Sheila
LANCS Rochdale: Sanderson, Burke. Crompton/Shaw: Robinson, Walkden, Swann<br />Oldham: Sandiford, Mitchell<br />STAFFS Willenhall/Cheslyn Hay: Stokes, Broom<br />SOMERSET: Bath:  Broom/Hawkins/Plowman/Roberts/West<br />YORKS: Gibson, Helliwell<br />IRELAND: Burke, Holmes<br />USA/Canada: Sanderson<br />WILTSHIRE: Hawkins<br /><br />All census information is Crown Copyright

Offline ALong

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 3
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Workhouse wedding
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 03 May 07 15:41 BST (UK) »
Sorry SuttonTrust, different sites, different screen names etc. When did we correspond?
Angi
Pages: [1]