FREDERICK GEORGE TURNER
Governor of the Union Workhouse Newhaven
By Jane Turner
I recently discovered that a relative of mine, Frederick George Turner, was the governor of the Newhaven Workhouse circa 1850 - 1878, once I'd got over the initial shock I reasoned that he might have been a good governor and not necessarily the kind exposed by Charles Dickens. Does anyone have any information about the workhouse and it's governors in the 19th century? Frederick George Turner was born in London in 1819, married a Newhaven girl, Laura Smith in 1850 and had a son, Everard, in Newhaven in 1863.