The only photo of my grand mother Ada on the left and my great grand mother Agnes in the middle, that I know of. The lady on the right was a neighbour. I never met either of them as there were death long before I was born. Mum also told me they were very poor and her mum came from the Union poor house in Salford. They all look happy enough but I suppose everyone always puts there smile for a camera. I estimate this photo was from around the 1930s or 40s. When looking into my family history I always heard to be careful about the stories that get past down but the stories are the best place to start. I started with Ada's birth certificate in St Mary Hospital, it had the family at 54 Middlewood Street Salford 1899.
Middlewood street looks a bit different today than I except it was in 1899. I then found the family on the 1881 census at 23 Springfield Lane. Agnes and her Husband
Finding great mother Agnes of the census record gave me an estimates birth date which made it possible to get her birth certificate which where the story of the Salford Union work house kicks in. The Workhouse is listed as the birth place and her mother address. My mum sees the workhouse was very underprivileged and has some sort of bad stigma attached to it. The census records before and after her birth do not have them living in the workhouse, maybe they were were just using the infirmary in the workhouse for the birth of Agnes.
www.workhouses.org.uk/Salford
I bought an old 1800s directory years ago to get a bit of a feel of old Salford.
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