Lawyers, teachers, doctors were among victims of the Great Famine

The victims of the Great Famine were not just the poor, as new research shows that many middle-class people, including lawyers and doctors, ended up in the workhouse.

Newly digitalised records also reveal tragic tales of forced migration of young female orphans to Australia.

The British-based family history website Findmypast yesterday released more than 2.5m Dublin Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers and Minute Books.