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From: "MaryH" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Fw: Workhouse - Marylebone
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:10:08 -0000
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> > My grandmother homechild Mary Ann Mangan (Manggon) was sent out to
Canada after her mother Johanna died in North Kensington on Hewer St. I am
lookingfor a needle in a haystack and wonder if there is any connection with
a workhouse. I don't know whether there is any truth in this but I was told
that St. Charles Hospital was a workhouse at one time?
> >
Hi Pat,

Most children sent to Canada had passed through a workhouse at some point
but as you say a needle in a haystack. Very few workhouse records are
indexed and it would take hours of searching to check through all the
various registers and admission books (the London Workhouses were very busy
places).

Do her Canadian immigration records give you anymore information that would
at least narow down the search a bit?

St Charles Hospital on Exmoor Street in London was originally the St
Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary when it was opened in 1881. It was renamed St
Charles in 1930. Perhaps the Marylebone records would be a good place to
look if you have nothing else to go on. The surviving records are at the
London Metropolitan Archives which is near to the Family Records Centre in
Islington, London.

Good luck
Mary Hallett - West Sussex
Visit my Website at www.fourbears.worldonline.co.uk
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