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From: "Paul Henderson" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Stepney / Shoreditch Workhouses 1871
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:05:37 +0100
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Dear Peter,

Lets hope that St Leonard's is the place. Found your site very
interesting. It is hard to image what it would have been like for the people
living in such an institution, but the info on you site give an idea.

Thanks,

Val Henderson
Cornwall, UK
e-mail
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valhender/index.htm
My Children's Forefathers.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Higginbotham
<>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Stepney / Shoreditch Workhouses 1871


> Hi Paul,
> Yes, the Shoreditch (St Leonard's) workhouse was on Kingsland Road. I have
a
> little bit of info on the place at: www.workhouses.org.uk/Shoreditch
> The London Metropolitan Archive has quite a few records for Shoreditch
> including birth registers for 1863.
>
> Peter Higginbotham
>
> ------------------------------------
> > " Looking for my Great Grandfather Edmund Salisbury b. 1863
> Stepney(1881 CD/ death certificate) and no birth certificate in all UK
> (professional researcher). Marriage certificate - father unknown. A
> carpenter, living in Shoreditch in 1881. It is believed he was brought up
in
> a Workhouse (family).
> >
>
>
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