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Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 3 663 Send Message	Suzanne	Report	12 Oct 2007 21:42
	can i find workhouses on ancestry?and if so how would i do it?xx
	Researching: price,lambert,goodlass,mcdonald
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 16 612 Send Message	Julie	Report	12 Oct 2007 21:57
	Have a look at this site www.workhouses.org.uk As im not too sure what you are after
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 9 259 Send Message	Porkie_Pie	Report	12 Oct 2007 22:01
	Workhouses are listed on census's but some only give intials of inmates and not the full name, and yes they are on ancestry Roy
Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 105 Send Message	Nightowl51	Report	14 Oct 2007 05:21
Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 105 Send Message	To search for a particular workhouse go to any census page i.e. 1901 click and if you know the name of the person you are looking for enter their detail as known and there is a box with "Keywords right at the bottom, type in workhouse in .......... whatever town or county and it should come up. I have just experimented and put in the 1901 census Croydon workhouse and everyones name has come up.Usually in alphabetical order.