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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Foundlings
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 23:16:30 +0100


In message <>, George Blackamore
<> writes
>Hello Listers
> Another question for all you learned people out there....
> I understand that one of my ancestors was found as a baby in Commercial
>Road (Stepney). How do I go about looking into this?
will only be able to get further if the police succeeded in tracking the
mother and summoned her - in which case, local magistrtae's court
reports, in newspaper.
>
> I read on an earlier note that often the road name was given to the
>baby. This may be so in this case. I am looking for references for Thomas
>COMMERCIAL whose marriage certificate shows a father also called Thomas
>COMMERCIAL.

> occupation was given
>as publican & the address 72 Jamaica Street E1.
sounds very much like the usual policy of naming the foundling after
place found. When he married, he was probably self conscious and faked
a name for his father (or maybe someone had told him it was a publicn
who was involved) The address will be the son's, not the father's.

>ied in vain to find a record of a birth for TC junior, just in case the
>"baby in the road" story wasn't true.
try local workhouse, which is where he would have been taken (records
probably at London Metropolitan Archives, who hold most of these.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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