Can some kind soul give me some advice on Workhouse records please? I'm trying to get my head round the various Workhouses and Poor Law Unions in London in teh latter part of the 19th Century and it's a minefield!
My ancester was born in the London Parish of Fulham in January 1882. He then appears as a foster child in Kent on the 1891 Census. Sometime in between the years '82 and '91 he was "in a childrens home" but that's all I know.
I'm making an assumption that he would have gone straight into the nearest Workhouse before eventually being boarded out sometime before 1891. What records should I be looking for here? What Poor Law Union? And which are my likely workhouses?
Or am I asking completely the wrong questions?
Many thanks
Dave