Workhouse Records - Introduction

Details from various books of the Wellingborough Poor Law Union, to which Rushden & Newton Bromswold belonged, have been extracted and indexed. The first 3 (of 13) admissions & discharges book, a book of children boarded out, births at the Workhouse, together with four volumes of deaths have been combined into the index.

The Workhouse building still survives today as the Isebrook Hospital in Irthlingborough Road, Wellingborough.

Newsclips
Notes from the Newspapers	Treats for inmates

Indexed Records - Rushden & Newton Bromswold NRO Ref: Book Dates PL12/371 Children Boarded out 1902-1909 PL12/132-134 Admissions/discharges 1896-1899 PL12/158 Deaths 1867-1914 Acc.2003/38 Deaths 1914-1935 PL12/161 Return of Infant deaths 1871-1885 PL12/162 Return of Infant deaths 1885-1893 PL12/157 Workhouse Births 1867-1914

Index Key to the Index codes: Abbey - Clayton AD Admission/discharge Coakes - Groome BO Boarded out Harris - Murden D Death Neale - Sykes  FP Foster Parent  Tailby - York ID Infant death   N Born (natus)

The Master's Report Book PL12/115
13th week of the Quarter ending Christmas 1896
Report of the Number of Inmates
Wards	Beds	number of occupants each night							Total
		W	T	F	S	S	M	T
Able-bodied Men	29	19	19	19	19	19	20	20	135
Old men	49	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	319
Boys	9	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	77
Male Infirmary	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	26	182
Male Infectious	7
Male Receiving	2
Total	122	101	101	101	101	101	104	104	713
Able-bodied Women	14	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	119
Old Women	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	21
Girls	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	91
Female Infirmary	27	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	168
Lying-in Ward	4
Female Infectious	7
Female Receiving	2
Total	71	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	399

There are many other books in this series - these relate to the Rushden area:-

NRO Ref:		Wellingborough Union Records (Rushden area)	from	to
PL12/	115 to 122	Indoor relief - Master's report books	1895	1912
PL12/	132 to 144	Admissions/discharges	1896
PL12/	146	Inventories of property of deceased inmates	1914	1936
PL12/	147	Bathing register (not seen)	*poor state
PL12/	157	Workhouse births	1867	1914
PL12/	161 to 162	Return of infant deaths	1871	1893
PL12/	183 to 191	Outdoor relief (South)	1901	1928
PL12/	212 to 220	Report Books (South)
PL12/	226 to 295	Relief lists	1910	1924
PL12/	367 to 371	Children Boarded out & pay lists
PL12/	372	Fairlawn Childrens Home	1906	1954
PL12/	378 to 403	Vaccination registers	1879	1910
Accession 2003/38		Register of deaths (includes cause of death)	1914	1935
Accession 2003/38		Register of inmates	1905	1943
Accession 2003/38		Register of soldiers	1940	1942

Earlier Workhouse