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From: "Richard Thomson" <>
Subject: [UK-W&H] Lincoln Workhouse Officials - WALTON, 1913
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:51:28 -0000


I would like to find out about officials of the workhouse in Lincoln in 1913.

The parents of my Uncle-in-Law (Edgar WALTON) were presented with a pair of silver napkin rings, which I found when clearing out his house in York after he died in 1984. They are inscribed "Presented to Mr & Mrs WALTON by the officers of the Lincoln Workhouse 1913.". This suggests that they were also officials of the Workhouse.

I knew that his parents had moved from Lincoln to York, when my uncle was a boy (probably in the 1910's or 1920's). The napkin rings could have been a leaving present when they they left Lincoln.

My uncle and aunt had no children, and I have kept very few papers that they had (not realising in 1984 that I might be interested in family history later), so I have few clues about his background. My aunt had died before my uncle.

Could anybody help me find out more about them ?

Richard Thomson, in Leeds, West Yorkshire
Researching STAINTHORP, TUTIN, TOES
and other names in Brompton by Northallerton, North Riding, and surrounding area,
BRAMHAM, COLLIER, LACY, STAINTHORP in York,
THOMSON in York and Liverpool
and WALTON in York & Lincoln


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