workhouse records

[jungle beast]

Hi i am very new to this. Can someone please tell me how i can access the  records for Princes Rd., workhouse in Lambeth, for the years 1857 to 1861. Thx

[Sharon01]

Hi,

This site is excellent and should give you your answer.


www.workhouses.org.uk

Sharon

[jungle beast]

Thank you Sharon.

[jungle beast]

Hi again. i have looked at the different sites for workhouses. When i click on Workhouse records I inexplicable get put onto ancestry.com and posts from public members with our same family names. Nothing to do with workhouses! can you enlighten me please.

[aghadowey]

Hi,

This site is excellent and should give you your answer.


www.workhouses.org.uk

Sharon

The site works fine when I click on the above link.

[jungle beast]

yup that's the site i have been into , but i am not having any joy. I need on line records as i do not live in the uk. I find this quite confusing as I am so new at this!

[aghadowey]

If you go to the workhouse site, click on the following links-
Workhouse Locations > English Poor Law Unions > London: Surrey > Lambeth (St. Mary)
Scroll down the page (there's lots of maps, photos and information there) until you come to Records and you'll see details listed (these records won't be available online).

[jungle beast]

Thanks. i found the sites, but i guess i actually have to go to the Lambeth archives to search for this information.
Are there any other avenues I could follow up on? I appreciate your help.

[dawnsh]

Hi

Sorry for the late reply to your enquiry.

The 'surviving' records for Lambeth Board of Guardians have been deposited for safe keeping

Lambeth Archives, Minet Library, 52 Knatchbull Road, London SE5 9QY.
       
Princes Road workhouse:
Register of workhouse children (1826-33); Workhouse repairs (1826-35); workhouse record book (1816-20); workhouse accounts (1801-10, 1816-20).
Other Records: Rate books (1700-1900, with gaps); Churchwardens and Overseers papers re rates and rating (1832-1900); Leases of workhouse sites (1727-1858); Committee for the relief of the poor during inclement weather minutes (1814); Settlement examinations of women in the Lying-in Hospital 1805-1807; Plans of Lambeth Workhouse Infirmary and Norwood Schools (1853-1911); etc.
   
London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R OHB.

Princes Road workhouse holdings include: Admissions and discharges (1773-1919); Creed registers (1850-1919); Births (1836-68); Baptisms (1803-60).
Renfrew Road workhouse holdings include: Admissions and discharges (1912-22); Creed registers (1873-1922); Births (1875-1916); etc.
Brook Drive Infirmary holdings include: Births (1883-1921); Baptisms (1889-1907); Pauper lists (1901-24); etc.
Norwood School holdings include: Register of children (1875-1904); Admissions and discharges (1847-1929); Creed register (1885-1936); Baptisms (1911-39); Deaths (1901-34); Register of adopted (1901-30); Register of children emigrating (1900-30).
Other holdings include: Guardians' minute books (1836-1930); Financial records (1861-1930); Staff records (1851-1930); etc.

Some of the records held at the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) have been digitised and put on line as suggested above. However what is online is far from complete.

The LMA has a 'paid for' research service, details here

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/Family_Research/Family+History+Research+Service.htm

Contact details for Lambeth here but there's no mention of a research service.

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/LeisureCulture/LocalHistory/

Researchers in and around London are few and far between, and this type of research is not always easy to carry out.

Who and what are you looking for?

Dawn