Dear List, I Emailed [email protected] concerning my grandmother Alice TILLING and her siblings who entered the workhouse 1890 and received the following reply (edited) Chipping Sodbury Union Records The Gloucestershire Record Office does hold surviving material from the Chipping Sodbury Poor Law Union, but unfortunately this collection (Gro reference Number G/So does not contain very much material pertaining to the workhouse inmates. No admissions or discharge registers, for example, have survived. A member of staff did check the Workhouse Punishment Book(G/So 87) which has a name index but the name TILLING or TELLING was not mentioned. One possible source that may contain information regarding the family, are the Minutes of the Board of Guardians 1852-1930 (G/SO 8a/1-39. These minutes comprise some 39 volumes and may contain detail regarding the family's entry into the Union Workhouse and how they left. These records could be searched on your behalf, but this would attract a research fee. Details of the research service we offer together with an application form that can be downloaded and returned to us with payment can be found on our website (http://archives.gloucestershire.gov.uk). Research costs £18 perhour and we usually suggest that you send no more than £36 in the first instance, which would enable us to spend up to 2 hours on the work. They were very helpful and looked up a census for me, but I did not have the search done as there was no guarantee of there being anything significant in the minutes.They were all on the 1901 census, which people on this list kindly sent to me. I will likely never know what happened in the 10 years 1890 to 1901. Many regards, Jane, harold&[email protected]