Cirencester

Cirencester

Cirencester Union

The Board of Guardians meet alternate Mondays at the Union Workhouse at 11am.
The population of the Union in 1901 was 19,620, area 86,183 acres, and rateable value in 1901 £112,883.

The Cirencester Union comprises the following Parishes:
Down Ampney, Ampney Crucis, Ampney St Mary, Ampney St Peter, Bagendon, Barnsley, Baunton, Brimpsfield, North Cerney, South Cerney, Cirencester, Coates, Colesbourne, Daglingworth, Driffield, Duntisbourne Abbots, Duntisbourne Rouse, Edgeworth, Elkstone, Fairford, Harnhill, Hatherop, Kempsford, Meysey Hampton, Poulton, Preston, Quenington, Rendcombe, Rodmarton, Sapperton, Siddington, Stratton, Syde, Winstone

Union Officers 1902

Chairman of the Board of Guardians	R. A. Iles
Treasurer	Joseph Rawlins
Clerk to the Guardians and Assessment Committee. Also Superintendent Registrar.	Henry Lawrence Cooke
Relieving Officer - Centre District	Samuel James Pantoll
Relieving Officer - Eastern District	John Wade
Relieving Officer - West District	William Fred Parsons

The workhouse, a building of stone, was erected in 1836, for 330 inmates.

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
Cirencester	4	5	9

Source: 22nd Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Submitted by Alan Longbottom.

Staff at the workhouse in 1902;
Rev. John Stewart Sinclair, Chaplain
Charles Mackinnon, Medical Officer
Robert Chappell Freeman, Master
Miss Florence Freeman, Matron
Miss Lucy Dyball, Industrial Trainer

The Cottage Hospital

Sheep Street, was established in 1875, and contains 9 beds. The average number of in patients is about 100.

Cemetery

Cirencester cemetery is located at Chesterton Lane.

Records Available

Gloucester Record Office
Clarence Row
Alvin Street
GLOUCESTER
GL1 3DW
Tel:- 01452 425295

Page updated Monday August 06, 2007