Wigan Album

many less fortunate wigan people lived in there, good old days i do not think so

My great grandad started his life in the workhouse but he endend up one of the best cloggers in Wigan.

Well done Geoff's grandad.

Ron. Wasn't this workhouse situated in Frog Lane, or am I mistaken?.

Albert yes you are correct.

Wasn't this demolished in the very late 60s or very early 70s? What was it after the workhouse?

my 3xgreat grand dad, at 69 yrs remarried a widow almost half his age and had 2 children in the mid- late 1870s. He died in 1880 and the 1881 census shows his wife and two daughters in the Union work house. His widow dies herself in 1885 as shown in the cemetery records, and I can find one of the girls working as a servant in a 1891 census. I'd love to confirm if she was placed in this job by the workhouse and as for the other sister I don't know what happened to her.