Workhouse inmate records query

I saw him, @Andromeda. There weren't any Charles Brown births registered for third quarter 1915 in that area, so... I strongly suspect it may be him.
 
Bay Horse said:
I saw him, @Andromeda. There weren't any Charles Brown births registered for third quarter 1915 in that area, so... I strongly suspect it may be him.
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Me too, especially as the DoB matches that for Walter Charles Gregory.

The workhouse records for 'Lavinia Gregory' start around 1912 as far as I can see. Admitted to City Road Workhouse (Holborn) 23 May 1912 from 377 City Road. Discharged 24 May to Harrow Road (Paddington?).

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-32ZN?i=242&cat=1389833
 
Thank you for all of the work that you have all put in to help me with this query,

Now to show my ignor no Stup no ah lack of knowledge.

I know nothing about workhouses apart from many I am told became hospitals
because the dormitories were big enough to be made into wards with little or no work to be done.

How would Esther changing her name achieve anything to help her. It must have already been about as bad as it could get for her to end up in there in the first place. So I can't see that changing your name would improve matters.
 
Going to the work house was a voluntary decision. It gave someone down on their luck a roof over their head and three meals a day, but the rules were strict and punishments for breaking them were harsh.

I imagine Esther had already been admitted under her own name previously and for some reason changed her name to get in there again. Or, she gave an alias on first admission.
 
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Bay Horse said:
Going to the work house was a voluntary decision. It gave someone down on their luck a roof over their head and three meals a day, but the rules were strict and punishments for breaking them were harsh.

I imagine Esther had already been admitted under her own name previously and for some reason changed her name to get in there again. Or, she gave an alias on first admission.
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So I assume from what you have said that there was a limit to how long you could stay. So by changing your name you could get another stay as long as you were not recognised. Which from the letter that Andromeda found would imply that she may have been caught and shipped off to her home town of Biggleswade.
 
Its not so much that there was a limit on how long, but because the parish bore the costs there was a system in place to ensure that anyone in the workhouse for any length of time was returned to the parish that was financially responsible for them. This is what I was referring to when I mentioned the Settlement Examination. It's a pity this is missing, as it may have filled in some of the blanks - like where she had been living/working. Normally there would then be a Removal Order, but in this case Biggleswade accepted her without one.

When ‘Lavinia’ was first admitted to Newington Workhouse on 28 Jun 1915 her address was 9 Trafalgar Street. She was discharged at her own request on 7 July, but then readmitted the same day as 'homeless'. Further down the page you can see Walter C Gregory admitted on 3 Aug 1915 'Born in Institution'
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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1Y-D9LZ-J?i=494&cat=289304

NB: These entries are from the Creed Register, the admissions/discharge books are on Ancestry.
 
I should have also mentioned that the above creed register entries go onto the next page. Under the column 'name & address of relatives" it says 'no friends' on her first admission (28 Jun), but on the 7 July entry it lists Mrs Hall, 9 Trafalgar Street, Walworth
 
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