Death in Newent Workhouse - Elizabeth Poyner 1838-1895 (General)

by poytheboy , Saturday, February 19, 2011, 16:17 (5095 days ago)

Are any records for Newent Workhouse available anywhere to view (if they have survived). I'm interested in Elizabeth Ann Poyner, who had two children out of wedlock in 1859 and 1862, and by 1871 was in Newent Workhouse with her younger child. Her eldest was working in the mines of the Forest of Dean, and emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1870's. Elizabeth appears in the census' of 1881 and 1891 still in Newent Workhouse. I've not found a burial record and would be interested to find out where this burial took place. She was born at College Precincts, Gloucester in 1838, and by 1861 in Taynton, where her father had returned to his place of birth. Would she be buried in Newent, as her youngest son had moved out of the Forest of Dean as well, thus me having a theory the family disowned her.