The Birth Registers were meticulously kept by the various Masters of the Workhouse. I have transcribed these registers and they are now available on CD-ROM.

There are about 1,779 names of women who gave birth to their babies at the Coventry Union Workhouse between the dates of 1854-1930.

These Registers are an invaluable aid to family historians, especially when an ancestor cannot easily be found. If they were born in the Workhouse: Admittance and Discharge Registers can be consulted to see what the circumstances had been to lead to the mother being there.

Also added to this index are all workhouse births mentioned in the admission registers (once a child was born in the workhouse it was then officially admitted, often before it was named).

The admission and discharge registers run from 1853 too 1946 with only some gaps. Also included in this index are the details of those mothers, and the babies born in the workhouse, dying there. Those dying there, after April 1914, stating the cause of death. In those death registers where the cause of death were noted a pattern of the rise and fall of epidemics can be seen.