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From: "Janice Aitkens" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Re: workhouse birth
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:19:36 -0000
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Hi, If it like today a death certificate is needed to bury someone so may be
that was why, as for births it could be not wanting it to be know that you
were born in the workhouse & or they could not read & write so thought they
could not do it
Regards Janice
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From: "Beth Horsburgh" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:57 AM
Subject: [Lon] Re: workhouse birth


>I have a great great grandmother who was born in the workhouse. I have
>found her entry in the workhouse records of admissions and discharges and
>her christening at the church to which the workhouse was attached but her
>birth was not registered with the GRO and neither was her sister's birth.
>Another sister died in the workhouse and it was registered by the matron of
>the workhouse, not her family. May be when they were born in the workhouse
>birth's weren't registered but I am not sure but seems strange that if a
>death is registered then why isn't a birth.
>
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