Lincoln Union Workhouse 1848

[Tib]

I have discovered that two siblings of my ancestor Jane Sargeson died in the Lincoln Union Workhouse in 1848 - one was less than a year old, the other a toddler of three years.  My questions are:  would the workhouse have sent their mother out to work away from the workhouse, would she have been allowed to leave the children there if she herself was not an inmate,  and would these children have been separated from their mother at the workhouse?

The death registrations I have for the two children do not indicate that their mother is dead. 

Any information greatly appreciated.

[suttontrust]

Do you have the birth certificates of any of the children?  It would be useful to know where they were born and the family circumstances.  Children that young would probably have been in the workhouse with their mother.  If she was dead they would have been fostered out.  It sounds as if they hadn't been in the workhouse very long.  Have you found the death of the mother?

[Tib]

I have the birth registration for the youngest child, born after the father's death.  I also have the parish baptismal records for all  9 of the children.  The mother was widowed in December of 1846, the last child born in March of 1847 where the family resided and not in the Union Work House.  Both children died within three months of one another.  The remaining children were all placed with family in Nottinghamshire by 1851, except for my ancestor.  I do not know if these children were also in the Work House before being sent to relatives.  If they were, I assume they would have been split up according to age.
I have not found the mother's death record or any census record for her after 1841.  Of course, Sargeson can and will be spelled many different ways.

[Goonerbird]

Sorry for hijacking your post, I have today recieved my great grandmothers birth certificate, and found she was born in the Union Workhouse Lincoln on 30 April 1849 her mother being Catherine Essery, father James Essery and she was called Mary Elizabeth Essery.

The family are from Barnstaple in North Devon and James was an Iron Mouder, for the life of me I cannot figure out why Catherine was in the workhouse in Lincoln, if it had been in Devon but why Lincoln and does anyone know how I can find out if James was an inmate himself, also their son James Edward England Jeen Essey who must have been about a year old at the time. The family were back in Devon by the 1851 census.
Thank you

[Rick]

Hi goonerbird

Lots of records have survived for Lincoln Workhouse and these are held at the Lincoln Archives - inlcuding;

Guardians' minute books (1836-1930); Admissions and discharges (1839-43, 1871-1943); Births (1911-49); Baptisms (1827-62, 1900-45); Deaths (1911-44); Burials (1828-45, 1858-99); Children's Home admissions and discharges (1897-1920); etc.

http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/archives/

The admisions and Guardian's minute books might solve this mystery for you.

For general information about Lincoln Workhouse.  Go to;

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/

Using the Left hand side menu, select

"Workhouse Locations" then
 
"English Poor Law Unions" then

"Lincolnshire" then

"Lincoln"

Rick

[Goonerbird]

Thank you for that I shall have to try and go to Lincoln, it really ia a puzzle,

Audrey