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Workhouse Burial Location
« on: Saturday 01 May 10 13:23 BST (UK) »
Could someone local to the area tell me what Cemetary the workhouse would have used for deaths in its confines and what burial areas there was around it circa 1880 please

Rob
WYATT, COX, STRATTON, all from south Derbyshire and the STS, LEI border Burns Fellows Gough Wilks from STS in particular Black Country and now heading into SOP

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Re: Workhouse Burial Location
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 01 May 10 13:56 BST (UK) »
Hi Rob

Which of Cheshires workhouses are you interested in? If its Birkenhead then Flaybrick Hill Cemetery is a possibility.

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Re: Workhouse Burial Location
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 01 May 10 14:09 BST (UK) »
doh call me an idiot.  Can't believe I didnt put the area in.  Stockport

Rob
WYATT, COX, STRATTON, all from south Derbyshire and the STS, LEI border Burns Fellows Gough Wilks from STS in particular Black Country and now heading into SOP

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Re: Workhouse Burial Location
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 01 May 10 14:20 BST (UK) »
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

This might  help, there is a lot about Stockport.  Search ` Stockport`

Records at Stockport Central  Library
Most records were destroyed during World War 2. Surviving records include: Workhouse Births and Deaths (1850-1904, indexed); Lists of inmates and removals (1841-3); Lists of paupers (1837-43, 1853-73 with gaps; Register of deaths and diseases (1874-95); etc.
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Re: Workhouse Burial Location
« Reply #4 on: Monday 03 May 10 00:36 BST (UK) »
Yes I knew about that site but it doesn't list where the cemetary is online.  I am now going to go to the library in the week but being nearly an hour away by train I was hoping not to have to.

Rob
WYATT, COX, STRATTON, all from south Derbyshire and the STS, LEI border Burns Fellows Gough Wilks from STS in particular Black Country and now heading into SOP

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Re: Workhouse Burial Location
« Reply #5 on: Monday 03 May 10 07:56 BST (UK) »

Stockport Borough Cemetery is my bet, It opened in 1838 and was the nearest cemetery to the workhouse.



 
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Re: Workhouse Burial Location
« Reply #6 on: Monday 03 May 10 12:37 BST (UK) »
Rolnora,

Thanks I did wonder if there was a municipal cemetery near by and not knowing Stockport I could have looked at a map and never known.

Rob
WYATT, COX, STRATTON, all from south Derbyshire and the STS, LEI border Burns Fellows Gough Wilks from STS in particular Black Country and now heading into SOP
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