Judy Thank you so much for your help and suggestions which are much appreciated. I'll follow them up. Kind regards Mike -----Original Message----- From: Judy Lester [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 May 2015 10:58 To: 'Mike Corrigan'; 'LONDON Mailing List' Subject: RE: [LON] Workhouse Query - St Luke's Chelsea Mike, I'm afraid I can't say whether Ancestry's digitisation of CHBG/167/003 is complete or not. As you have seen, these are separate documents, out of date-order, and gathered into bindings without pagination. Ancestry are known to miss (or misplace) individual pages and clumps of pages even when there is pagination, so it's anyone's guess. You could try asking this question of LMA, but I fear you may get a similar answer. I'm not aware of any indexing of this particular record collection. Also, perhaps bear in mind that any removal order may have been misfiled, or may not have survived. John Corridon's place of settlement will have depended on his father's, until he gained a settlement in his own right. So it's possible that Chelsea were responsible for him when he was being raised in Bristol. There are no admission/discharge registers for the Chelsea workhouse before the 1860s. But there are other records at LMA, not online, that may mention him. In particular, I'd suggest the Board of Guardians' minute books, which often mention individuals. To access these you would need to have research done either by LMA or by an independent researcher (probably cheaper). As a next step, you may want to use LMA's (free) enquiry service to ask for details of the records that they have for Chelsea which are *not* online and which might help you in your quest. [email protected] HTH Judy London, UK -----Original Message----- From: Mike Corrigan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 May 2015 08:24 To: 'Judy Lester'; 'LONDON Mailing List' Subject: RE: [LON] Workhouse Query - St Luke's Chelsea Judy Do you know if the CHBG/167/003 records on Ancestry are complete please, or are indexed anywhere, if not on Ancestry? I've now waded through them several times but have been unable to find the record for John Corridon. It is presumed that John Corridon went into the workhouse in Chelsea around 1851 as a baby, when his mother went into an asylum. By the time of the 1861 correspondence, we believe he may have been in Bristol possibly with relatives, who then brought him up. If this was correct, would the Bristol Poor Corporation still be involved and seeking maintenance from Chelsea? Thanks for any advice you can provide. Mike