stoke on trent workhouses

[sophie03]

hi i wondered if anyone could tell me please where you can find out which workhouse an ancestor lived and died there. my great grandad joseph hawley born 1834 lived in hanley stoke on trent but ended up living in a workhouse i would like to see the records for him.i do not know if it would say which workhouse if i ordered a death certificate.thank you sophie 03

[Magrat]

Hi,
I would think that if he died IN a workhouse then it would be named on his death certificate.  I have one death cert. where an ancestor died in a workhouse and it is named.  I also have one who was in a workhouse and transferred to a lunatic asylum where he died and that asylum is also named on his death cert.

Cheers
Magrat

[sophie03]

hi magrat thank you for that information i will order his death certificate cheers sophie

[Lynntony]

Hi Sophie

You might find the following interesting

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

If you scroll down the menu on the left of the page to "English Poor Law Unions" and click on it, it brings up a list counties. Click on Staffordshire and then on Stoke on Trent. This gives a history of SoT Workhouse. At the top of this page is a heading for "inmates". This is at the time of the 1881 census so I don't know if it applies to your ancestor but there are a couple of Hawleys listed.

Tony

[sophie03]

hi tony thanks a lot for that i will give it a try sophie