Liverpool Workhouse

[Mofamily]

Hello

I hope someone could give me some insight.  I have found an ancestor in the workhouse in the Admissions and Discharge Register on Family Search microfilms.  She was admitted on 11 October 1853.  There is a 'No of Order' 590.  Does this relate to another record and are they available?

It also says 'by whose order' and it cites an H Simpson (this name appears regularly throughout the records) who are they?

She dies in the Infirmary Ward on 9 December 1853. (Stroke - according to burial records)  Now, I know she was buried in the Necropolis in a family grave, so she must have been known to the family and also I know the family were very "comfortable", and she had lived with her uncle previously.  Did people go into Workhouses for reasons other than poverty?

Thanks
Mo

[garstonite]

do you know the location of the Workhouse - ie - Sefton General Hospital, Smithdown Road ,Liverpool - was originally a Workhouse ??
added
can you post the full name and birth year of the deceased in 1853 please - we may find a family tree for him / her ??

[emeltom]

People did go into the Workhouse for health reasons - it was often the only Infirmary available when illness struck. Most Workhouses had an Infirmary attached and these later became hospitals after the workhouse had been closed down.

[AlanBoyd]

Liverpool Albion, 2nd April 1855

DIED
...
On the 26th ult., in Cambridge-street, aged 44, Mr. H. SIMPSON, relieving officer.

See this rootschat thread for a definition of relieving officer: https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=419289.0

Henry Simpson in 1851:
Liverpool, Mount Pleasant
3 Cambridge Street
Henry Simpson, 40, Relieving Officer
plus wife Agnes, 6 children and one servant.
folio: 596
piece: 2183
page: 5

[Mofamily]

Thanks folk.
Mo