Pulham Market Workhouse
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1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Pulham Market Workhouse |
Baptisms 1837to 1880
| The Union workhouse of Depwade was constructed in 1836 on a site alongside the A140 road connecting Norwich with Ipswich as part of the reforms of poor law provision initiated in the late Georgian period which took responsibility for maintenance of the poor from individual parishes to groups largely covering one or more of the ancient Hundreds. Pulham Market workhouse largely covered the area of Depwade and Earsham Hundreds but also included a stretch of neighbouring Suffolk. Records deposited for this workhouse commence soon after opening and run through until the mid-20th century. The first register is a standard workhouse births register which is incomplete in its detail, whilst children baptised as well as born are named those born and not baptised are unnamed and not included in this transcript. The second register, which overlaps in time with the first, is a standard parish style baptismal register, most of its early entries are duplicated with the first register and not double entered. Both registers are filmed on Microfilm MF/X300 in the collection of Norfolk Record Office, in recent times digitised imagery of these registers has become viewable freely on Familysearch and as the MF/X films are high magnification this certainly makes for improved readability. As a consequence this was a straightforward piece to prepare. |
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