Woolwich road workhouse 1917

[Dee3]

Can anyone help with information as to workhouse discharge records please.  I have found the admission of Elizabeth Brown with 7 children and then they are discharged but to different places, the boys it seems went to Orpington and the girls to Norwood.  I have tried a google search as well as ancestry & findmypast but can not get any further information, does anyone know if these were schools or different work houses for children,
thanks Dee

[pjm99]

Dee,
Was the mother discharged or did she die before the children were discharged. If she did die it might account for the children being discharged to other institutions.
Peter

[Jebber]

You will find plenty of information on  the following website.

Workhouses.org.uk


Jebber

[Dee3]

Thanks Peter, Jebber
No she did not die but went on to live to a ripe old age, being my grandmother.  She did take the youngest child with her when she was discharged but not sure where she went, the other 6 children all went to Orpington or Norwood from the information on ancestry records.  I think 2 of them may have died some time after this but the others all lived.  Are there any records for these two places I could search to see how long they were there,
thanks Dee

[ResearchJu]

Were the children sent to 'Scattered homes'?  This is what happened to my ancestors who left the workhouse as children without parents with them. 

I got further information from the London Metropolitan Archives who I paid to search the Creed registers etc which gave me quite a bit of extra information including when they left the Scattered home and what they were then apprenticed on to.

[Ashtone]

Earlier thread:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=750237.0

[Bookbox]

The children will have been sent to certified schools regularly used by the Greenwich Board of Guardians. In case you haven't seen the entries, the admission/discharge records, as kept by Greenwich, are here ...

Norwood Orphanage
Florence, Dorothy and Elizabeth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-DQRW-H?i=497&cat=1223449

St Joseph’s Orphanage, Orpington
Bertie, James and George
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-DQR6-Y?i=508&cat=1223449

The above records all point to folio 1231 of the Children’s Register which has a little more information ...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-J3RF-4?i=89&cat=1223449

... and the right-hand side of the same page
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-J3RJ-V?i=90&cat=1223449

ADDED
I appreciate this is an old thread which has been revived, so you will probably have these details by now.

[bearkat]

I don't want to hijack this thread but I am looking for a child who was sent to an orphanage in 1918 from Wandsworth.  Are these records searchable`?

[Bookbox]

Many of the records for London poor-law unions have been filmed by LDS and are free to access at FamilySearch.

For example, for a referral from the Wandsworth and Clapham Union to a certified school in 1918 (which might include an ‘orphanage’), you might try here ...

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3N5-MLMS?i=384&cat=1390391
(indexed by surname and institution name at the front)