Workhouse and orphanage

[friesland]

Hello again all, hope everyone is keeping well.
I have moved on a bit with Agnes Bridget Hickey since I last came online. I would now appreciate some further guidance. In the 1891 census I find my grandmother, named Bridget Hickey, in the Convent of the Faithful Virgin Boarding School and Orphanage, Croydon and I find her mother, my great grandmother Ellen Hickey in the St George's Workhouse, St Saviours Union Workhouse, Mint Street, Southwark. Ellen's husband, John Hickey, had died.  I want to try to find out more about these two institutions especially any details of when they were admitted and discharged, which they were by 1901. I have found quite a bit of general background on the workhouse.org site but nothing very specific. Can anyone offer any advice? Thnk you

[Milliepede]

Was Ellen born 1847?

Admission 16 Oct 1891
occupation launderess
religion RC
by whose order admitted it looks like "Lyle" but I don't know what that means

Admissions 16 Jul 1891 and 29 Jan 1891 same info as above

[friesland]

Thanks for your response
I have not got an exact date for Ellen's birth yet but according to various census's it was 1844 and according to her first wedding certificate it was 1843 and her second wedding shows 1842 so it is about that point.
She was certainly a launderess but looking at the census for the workhouse a large number were shown as launderess's and she was RC at that time.
So the entry you found may be her but then she appears in the 1891 census which was taken on 5th April 1891 so she was an inmate before October.

Thank you anyway
Peter

[KGarrad]

For information on the workhouse:
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Southwark/

[solidrock]

https://londongardenstrust.org/inventory/gardens-online-record.php?ID=CRO089
https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/norwood-the-faithful-virgin/
https://www.norwoodsociety.co.uk/articles/90-a-short-history-of-the-convent-and-church-of-virgo-fidelis.html

[Milliepede]

What was Ellen's maiden name please and who was her father from the marriage certificates?

[janan]

Ellen Hickey Laundress born 1845-48  appears to have been in and out of St Georges Workhouse frequently over a number of years from April 1887. Would that  fit with death of her husband?

Jan

[Milliepede]

Looks like John Hickey died 1890?

Think this is her in 1871?

Ellen Hogan 27
Ellen 5
William 3
Elvia 2

The 1881 has a mixture of Hickey/Hogan children

John Hickey 42
Ellen Hickey 37
Bridget Hickey 3
Mary Hickey 7 months
Ellen Hogan 15
William Hogan 14

[Milliepede]

Kind of worked out the marriages (I think) to help with pinning down a birth for her. 

Jun 1866 Holborn
Ellen McCarthy
Thomas Hogan

Sep 1877 St Saviour
Ellen Hogan
Thomas Hickey