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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 1311429, member: 4580&quot;]Mike...&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bill told me that somewhere he has the man&#039;s name and believes he was the manager of the workhouse.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am waiting for Bill to dome up with his name since that may be the easiest way to find it.</p><p>But I&#039;ll bet somewhere on the internet it could be found in historical records from Birmingham</p><p>and Warwickshire County.&nbsp; There are records much older than the ones we need, so I think they&#039;d be findable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this which was fun...</p><p><br /></p><p>I searched on <b>director of birmingham workhouse 1788</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3zsXAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA1-PA30&amp;dq=director+of+birmingham+workhouse+1788&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=AIzSTrzEJano2QWrvsjHDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=director of birmingham workhouse 1788&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3zsXAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA1-PA30&amp;dq=director+of+birmingham+workhouse+1788&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=AIzSTrzEJano2QWrvsjHDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=director of birmingham workhouse 1788&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=3zsXAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA1-PA30&amp;dq=director+of+birmingham+workhouse+1788&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=AIzSTrzEJano2QWrvsjHDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=director of birmingham workhouse 1788&amp;f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So a guy named Josiah Robins, possibly the same man later called Robinson, </p><p>was in charge at first. One article appears to be from 1798, one from 1789 so it&#039;s confusing..</p><p>Tokens were dated 1788, so perhaps most were struck within a few years of 1788.</p><p>No help with identifying W-man yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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