Indoor Relief Registers
TitleIndoor Relief Registers
ReferenceBG/163/G
Date
Feb 1848 - Jan 1851
CreatorYoughal Board of Guardians
Production date 1848 - 1851
Scope and ContentRecords 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.
Includes (for example):
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)
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).
No.3543, Margaret Mahony, aged 50, widow, housewife, Roman Catholic, suffering from dropsy, condition ‘indifferent’, from Youghal, admitted 11 Sep 1850, discharged 12 Sep 1850.
Includes (for example):
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)
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).
No.3543, Margaret Mahony, aged 50, widow, housewife, Roman Catholic, suffering from dropsy, condition ‘indifferent’, from Youghal, admitted 11 Sep 1850, discharged 12 Sep 1850.
Extent3 vols. (each c.200ff in size)
SubjectWorkhouse Inmates, Social History
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RepositoryCork City and County Archives