Hello Can you please assist with my problem I have found the death of a relative in 1864 who was a resident in the workhouse in South Shields, I have been on the Ancestry Site and have been unable to find any reference to this relative. I have tried, name, date of birth, workhouse, union workhouse, municipal workhouse to no avail. Does anyone have any idea how I can find any information on the 1861 Census before I blow a fuse. Thank you Carol

What is the persons name? if you tell the rest of us who it is you are trying to find in the workhouse, or just in the South Shields area, maybe we can find him for you. You will find information about South Shields workhouse on this site. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ IN the left hand menu select Workhouse Locations, then scroll down to find English Poor Law Unions, then select County Durham (which comes under D in the listing), after that choose South Shields. Maybe in the 1861 census he was living at home. But perhaps by 1864 he was sick and just went into the workhouse infirmary where he died. Rather than his being an inmate of the workhouse itself. In 1861 he might not have been living in South Shields but in a place nearby. Are you restricting your search of the 1861 census to just a residence in South Shields? if so try leaving his residence as just County Durham, provided his name is not a very common one. It might mean your scrolling through long lists of names to try and find him. Could be long winded, but I have found sometimes that this is the only way. Especially if I have names that are easy to mis-transcribe, such as DeAngelis being transcribed as Tangelo in one census because the page is almost illegible. I only found the family by searching for the son who was born in Australia and had an Italian first name. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<I have found the death of a relative in 1864 who was a resident in the workhouse in South Shields, I have been on the Ancestry Site and have been unable to find any reference to this relative. I have tried, name, date of birth, workhouse, union workhouse, municipal workhouse to no avail. Does anyone have any idea how I can find any information on the 1861 Census before I blow a fuse.>>