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From: "Liz Parkinson" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP] Whiston Work House. Lancashire
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:58:23 +0000
In-Reply-To: <000f01c7580e$f52186b0$aa826c58@WOODY>


Prescot is a good place to look - it is not a large place by any means -
although Rays on the high street make the best pies ever - but it is the
central area fo registration of BMDs for a wide area of what where once
villages but now pretty much run into one - Eccleston, Windle, Rainhill,
Whiston, parts of Huyton etc.

And if you do visit, Rays is about 100 yards up the hill from the registrars
office. I have no links, but eat their pies when in Prescot, which isnt
often

Liz



>Hi Audrey,
>I think the place you are looking for is Whiston Cross in St Helens, now
>part of Merseyside formerly Lancashire.
>
>Often there were several smaller workhouses dotted about an area which came
>under the control of the main area workhouse. If I am right about Whiston
>Cross, this would have been part of Prescot Union. The very few surviving
>records for this Union are at the Lancashire Record Office in Preston and
>correspondence and staff records are at The National Archive at Kew in
>London. I would suggest the Lancs RO would be a good place to start. The
>records there may confirm that there was a Union establishment at Whiston,
>but it looks as if there are precious few records which may help you.
>
>Good luck
>Mary
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