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Subject: Re: [SHEFF] The Workhouse
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:54:07 EDT

In a message dated 01/09/2004 18:57:56 GMT Daylight Time,
writes:

> I received the birth certificate for my g-g-grandfather. I was surprised
> to
> see that he'd been born in the workhouse and that his father's occupation is
> given as "soldier in the militia". I know that in the early 1850's he was a
> steel manufacturer (I think small-scale) and on the birth certificates of
> his children born in the late 1850s/1860s his occupation is given as a steel
> melter so to see he was in the army in 1855 leaving his wife (and presumably
> children) in the workhouse was unexpected. Lots of questions spring to
> mind.

Hi

He probably wasn't in the Army as such. I think you should look up
'Militia 'as it was a sort of Territorial Army on a necessary in time of war basis.

Judy

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