With the help of an enthusiastic group of volunteers I have created a digitised version of the admission and discharge registers for Epsom Workhouse in Surrey. There are about 39,000 admissions and a similar number of discharges collected into an Access database with dates ranging from 1840 to 1911. We are currently involved in linking admissions with the correct discharge record to establish duration of stay. When this stage is complete I will be interested in making comparisons with other workhouses especially from heavily industrialised areas and would welcome any knowledge of such digitised projects. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Peter Tilley
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