Youghal workhouse Board of Guardians (BG163)

Youghal Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/163

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5. Workhouse: Inmates 1848 – 1851 (3 items)

BG/163/G/

Indoor Relief Registers

Scope and Content: Records details of persons admitted into and discharged from the Youghal Auxiliary Workhouse of the Midleton Union. Details include: register number, name and surname of pauper, sex, age, adult - marital status (single/married/widowed) or child (orphan, deserted or bastard), employment or calling (such as labourer, ex-soldier, servant, seaman, tailor etc) , religious denomination, description of disability if any, name of wife or husband, number of children, observations on condition of pauper when admitted (such as, ‘bad’ , and ‘returned from fever hospital’) , electoral division and townland in which resident, date when admitted or when born in the workhouse; date when died or left the workhouse, also occasional remarks, such as ‘F.S’ (Fever Sheds), ‘cholera’. With alphabetical indices.

Date : Feb 1848 – Jan 1851

Level : Series

Finding Aid: Built in index in each volume

Extent : 3 vols (each c.200ff in size)

Cross Ref: BG/118/G Midleton Board of Guardians records.

13 Feb 1848 – 31 Mar 1849

Includes: No.1587, Michael Hartnett, aged 62, married, Roman Catholic, ‘ brought to house in state of starvation ’ , Youghal electoral division, admitted 12 Apr 1848, died 22 Apr 1848. (BG/163/G/1 p80)

31 Mar 1849 – 1 Jan 1850

Includes: No.912, Mary Fitzgerald, aged 40, married, also her children aged 6, 4 and 2, Roman Catholic, all in condition of ‘wretched destitution’, Clonpriest electoral division, admitted 14 May 1849, discharged 27 May 1849, note in margin ‘Cholera’ (BG163/G/2).

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