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Penzance Workhouse and Poor Law Union
The Board of Guardians meet alternate Thursdays at 11am at the Rechabite Hall,
Penzance. The population of the Union in 1891 was 48,045, area 64,879 acres and
rateable value in 1897 £177,276.
The Union consisted of the following Parishes: Gulval, Ludgvan, Madron,
Marazion, Morvah, Paul, Penzance, Perranuthnoe, St Buryan, St Erth, St Hilary, St Ives,
St Just in Penwith, St Levan, St Michaels Mount, Sancreed, St Sennen, Towednack,
Uny Lelant and Zennor.
| Clerk to the Guardians and Assessment Committee |
Thomas Henry Cornish |
| Treasurer |
Richard Foster Bolitho |
| Relieving and Vaccination Officer and Collector to the
Guardians - Eastern District |
Joseph Giles |
| Relieving and Vaccination Officer and Collector to the
Guardians - Western District |
William Thomas White |
| Superintendent Registrar |
Thomas Henry Cornish |
Penzance Union Workhouse was erected 1838 in Madron from designs by the
Architects G. Gilbert Scott and W. Bonython Moffatt. Located on Mount View,
Penzance it later became the Penzance Institution and was closed at the
Introduction of the National Health Service in 1948.
Inmates
| Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867 With Name of the
Workhouse and numbers of insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates. |
| WORKHOUSE |
MALE |
FEMALE |
TOTAL |
| Penzance |
1 |
5 |
6 |
| Source: 22nd Report of the Commissioners in
Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Submitted by Alan Longbottom. |
Staff
| Thomas Francis |
Workhouse Master |
| John A. Fox |
Medical Officer |
| Mrs N. Francis |
Workhouse Matron |
Records
Cornwall Record Office
County Hall,
Truro
TR1 3AY
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