Southwell Workhouse records

[bigjon]

Hi,
    I know that my grandmother Martha Bennett was admitted to the workhouse 5 Nov. 1943. Was it still classed as workhouse then or hospital?
    She died there 20 Dec. 1944.
    I believe she lived at Hucknall for a short time before admittance and before that at Mansfield Woodhouse. She was born in Sedgeley, Staffordshire.
    I have been told that no burrials took place at the workhouse. I have checked cemetery records for Hucknall and Mansfield with no result. Surely some record exists somewhere of what happened to her body.
    If it was classed as a hospital by then, why would records be withheld?

    any help at all please.............bigjon
   
 

[dawnsh]

It might be worth contacting Nottinghamshire Archives to see if they can suggest anywhere.

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

Although it does seem that they do not have the later records.

Dawn

[larkspur]

There was a new infirmary built in 1926. I think , from memory it was renamed Greet house and no longer used as a workhouse but as accomodation for poor families and some elderly right up until the 1980's. There are a series of "flats" in the building, open to the public, where these people lived. It is a National trust property, I think the only surviving one of its kind.
I would have thought she would maybe be buried in Southwell.There are certainly no burials in the workhouse.