Recently someone asked me how to find which workhouse their orphan came from. I provided some suggestions, basically how to do the research themselves. Would you like to have a go? Here are some links you will find helpful. https://earlgreysfamineorphans.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/earl-greys-irish-famine-orphans-20/ Trying to sort out the difficuties that have arisen from the next par below.
The first is to the contents of the blog. It is incomplete but it contains what you need for this exercise. Try clicking on the Contents title below, and then on post number 20, at the HTTP link; it’s the one that begins ‘British Parliamentary Papers’, a fair way down the page. It should tell you the names of workhouses that sent orphans for each ship, the early ships anyway.
And with thanks to Donna Winterton https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/12556/pages/314758?fbclid=IwAR19evZ4zFXEH1b78hv_eoEWDs5M8ZGFxx-HkF8SPYy8Lb0tzxsqZ1f8bYM
A more direct but still quite complex method would be to go to the search box that appears at the end of each post, just after the comments.
Here’s a screenshot. Type what you are looking for into the search box; i typed the words, ‘which workhouse’, and up came a number of places where these two words appear in my blog, posts 62, 64 and 66, for example
Here’s another screenshot showing part of what came up. You need to click on those different links and search for what you are after.
In this case, post 62, scroll down past “Literacy” and “Sydney Legend” and follow my suggestions. Take your time and work through at your own pace. If you you encounter difficulties, I’m sure there is someone at home, or in your orphan Facebook group who will be willing to help. At some stage you will also need ‘Google maps’ and Peter Higginbotham’s great workhouse website. But let’s go slowly.
What you are doing is identifying the workhouses that sent orphans on your orphan’s ship (blog post 20). Then with information about your particular orphan’s native place (see shipping lists, the https://irishfaminememorial.org/ website, or my Barefoot ) go to Peter Higginbotham’s www.workhouses.org and see if you can find the workhouse your orphan most likely came from. Which was closest to her native place? The method is not foolproof. But it is a good start. [You may need to use the search box again to see how to use Peter’s workhouse site].
Best of luck with your quest. Technology can tie us in knots,especially if we aren’t used to it.
I’d be interested in hearing about your experience. Please tell me, and other people by adding a comment at the end of this post.
May i ask if you found any information about your particular orphan when you typed her name into the search box?
What specific words did you use in the search box that directed you to information that was both helpful and interesting? Have you any tips for other searchers? Have you any queries?
Given how close we are to June 16th, it seems appropriate to finish with a quotation from this work,
The gravediggers took up their spades and flung heavy clods of clay in on the coffin. Mr Bloom turned his face. And if he was alive all the time? Whew! By Jingo, that would be awful!
James Joyce, Ulysses.
trevo's Irish famine orphans 
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