Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

My great great grandparents, Michael Bolton, DOB 18 07 1813 died here on 03 01 1883 and his wife, Caroline Ann Bolton, DOB 22 07 1818, died here on 21 May 1878.

I don't know what put them here or how long they were in there but assume it was atleast 5 years as that was the time between their deaths.
Are their any experts on the Walton Workhouse out there? Did people have to be really destitute to go in there? Am I right in thinking that people could ELECT to go in? They had grown up children so it s sad to think they could not live with them, rather than go in Workhouse. I know that Walton Hospital is still in Rice Lane. If I go and take pics will I be capturing some of the original buildings or has it all been pulled down?

Finally, another relative, ELLEN BOURNE, was a cigarette maker in approx 1900. She lived in prince edwin st. Is any one aware of any cigarette factories around here and what life would have been like?

As you can see, I am now trying to put flesh on the bones on my paperwork.

All the best

Have a look at www.workhouse.org

also Google Walton Workhouse and you will get a lot of information


For many the only available hospital would have been the workhouse hospital so many people would go there when they were too ill for their families to cope and then die there.

Hilary
Ed Officer

For cigar makers you need to see a copy of the large scale maps for around 1900 and that will show you some possibilites. Again you could try a google.

Hi
The Tobacco factory was probably Ogdens in Boundary Lane Liverpool about a 5 min walk fron Prince Edwin Street

I found an interesting document while googling, Liverpool Record Office Poor Law and Workhouse Records, Information Leaflet 17
and this is a clip from it

"In 1864-1869 a new workhouse called Walton Workhouse was built on Rice Lane at Walton-on-the-Hill to serve the northern part of the Union. The workhouse later became Walton Institution and then Walton Hospital until its closure in the late 1990s. The records of Walton Workhouse are catalogued at 353 WES/13-14. However, very little has survived. Some records of Walton Hospital can be found in the Merseyside Record Office (ref: M614 WAL)."

So you may not find any information.

You will still find the clock tower and some of the buildings still there in Rice Lane, although now residential accommodation, I believe the clock tower is a listed building.

As it is today and As it was then

Thank you all so much.

Next time I am in Liverpool I will go and take some pics. Very useful information as always.

Jean