Coventry Workhouse Births and Deaths

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This publication, compiled by Beverley Wishart, was originally produced as a booklet in 2002, all copies of which have now been sold, We are pleased to announce that the data in the booklet has been scanned and converted into a digital database which is now available as a download in our bookshop. This contains 10,517 entries (including some duplicates), recording births (1854-1930) and deaths (1845-1943). There is much useful additional information on ages, dates, addresses and causes of death. In addition, the original booklet containing a detailed description of the workhouse has been scanned and is included as a pdf file.

Note that this database programme will only run under Microsoft Windows operating system.

The download is available here.

You are advised to read the help file before downloading the file. This is available here.

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