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Tawny

Tawny Report 12 Apr 2015 09:37

Would workhouses send children out as borders in private houses? One of my great great grand aunts was a border in a private house on the 1891 census. Both of her parents were dead by 1883.

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No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 12 Apr 2015 09:47

dont think workhouses would as they would have to pay probably .they provided basic needs for the inmates

It more likely that a child would be put into a home rather than the workhouse .

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Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 12 Apr 2015 09:55

Yes they did do this. It was a common practice.

Has actually come up once or twice in Who Do You Think You Are.

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We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

Tawny

Tawny Report 12 Apr 2015 09:59

Thank you. After the death of her parents her older sister Mary Ann took Elizabeth, and her two other siblings Henry and Kate in. Mary Ann died in 1883 leaving a husband and two month old child along with her three siblings aged 15, 8 and 4. Her husband David kept his two month old son and brother in law Henry then aged 15 as he was then working and earning. However it appears he could not cope with the two little girls as well and gave them up.

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No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 12 Apr 2015 10:39

An entry in a workhouse Discharge Register may indicate if they were fostered out - sent to Mrs xxxx. The Sheppey Union book list a number of children like that.
If it coincided with a census year, the children might be listed with the foster family as boarder or nurse-child.

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Tawny

Tawny Report 12 Apr 2015 14:20

Will check that out. Thank you

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No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.