Hello, I'm a newbie to RootsChat and hope someone can help me trace my great grandmother ..............
My great grandmother, Susan Lawrence, appears on my grandfathers birth certificate (b. 21/5/1887) as Mother, a Domestic Servant of Croydon and residence, Workhouse Infirmary Croydon. However, she is not listed as staff or an inmate in the 1881 Census, Queens Road Workhouse and Duppas Hill Infirmary. The father is not listed on the birth certificate and therefore my surname, Lawrence, appears to have originated from my great grandmother. I have a hunch who my great grandfather was but need to know more in order to verify certain information.
Is there an alternative record of inmates of Croydon Workhouse in 1887?
Thank you
Peter Lawrence