I hope I can draw on the experience of members about the weight they give to family lore. My experience to date is that (usually) they contain a grain of truth but, I'm surprised when the full picture is revealed. However, in the Lancashire section I've been trying to locate the burial place of my GGGrandfather, who, family lore says, died in the workhouse. I recalled that in earlier work I'd found a burial for a man in the early 1830s of the right sort of age (mid-thirties), right area but, several others of the same name in the area. I dismissed the record because the buried man died of Cholera, (an epidemic had just starting to grip the U.K.) because I was looking for a cause of death that might involve the Workhouse.
Would a Cholera victim have been put in the Workhouse, or should I treat the Workhouse story with suspicion and follow down every likely looking record? What would other members do in this situation?
