Hinckley Union Workhouse Database

Workhouse database that holds the records of the staff and inmates of the Hinckley Union Workhouse in Leicestershire.

Workhouse Daily Life Database
1881 Census 1891 Census 1901 Census

The Hinckley Union Workhouse database has 339 records that have been compiled from the 1881, 1891 and 1901 Census.

The records have been kept in an easy to read format, and are in order by the surname.

Please search by typing in the surname of the person you are looking for, example: smith

Please be mindful that some words and phrases were used to place persons in institutions into classifications and were considered medical terms of the Victorian period, such as the following:

• Feeble minded - needing care or control for the protection of themselves or others.

• Idiot - unable to guard themselves against physical danger.

• Imbecile - incapable of managing themselves or their affairs.

• Lunatic - a person of unsound mind.

• Moral defective - those possessed of vicious or criminal propensities, unmarried mothers given birth out of wedlock.

Standard Marriage abbreviations are:

• S - Single (regularly used in place of U)

• U - Unmarried

• M - Married

• W - Widow or Widower

Please let us know if you have any further details of any of the records by using the Contact page.