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From: "Ann Neels" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] ISLINGTON WORKHOUSE - re-posting request
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:53:56 -0700


Dear Mary,

Would it be possible to check the Islington Workhouse to see if a child was
born or living there under the name Emily Lizzie May Fowler in the years
1891, giving it two years on either side of that year.
Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Ann Neels

Ontario, Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "MaryH" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] ISLINGTON WORKHOUSE - re-posting request


> Hi Nick,
>
> I've had a look at my reference books on workhouse records and for
Islington
> the following records survive which may help you
>
> Lists of children 1849-1919
> Lists of pauper children 1867-1930
>
> In addition some of the individual workhouse in Islington ahve admission
and
> dischearge registers surviving. These would be most likely to detail who
> collected the child. Do you know which of the workhouses she was in.
>
> Another thing which occurs to me looking through the lists of the
surviving
> documents is that the mother may have been admitted to the asylum. Post
> natal depression would have been regarded as madness then (even today
sever
> PND is treated in psychiatric hospitals) - it is another potential
> explanation for her disappearing!
>
> If you do know which workhouse she was in let me know and I'll check it my
> book
> Regards
> Mary Hallett - West Sussex
> Visit my Website at www.FourbearsUK.homestead.com
> MILLS, HUMBLE - Newcastle upon Tyne
> BARKAS - worldwide
> HICKS, SADLER - Oxfordshire & Hertfordshire
> HALLETT - Somerset & London
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 29 April 2000 08:44
> Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] ISLINGTON WORKHOUSE - re-posting request
>
>
> > Thanks for the idea Mary, but marriage seems the least likely
explanation
> at
> > the moment. There is no trace of a suitabe candidate of any surname on
> the
> > 1881 census - just 11 yrs later!
> >
> > What I was really hoping for was that the Islington Workhouse records
> detailed
> > when the child was collected, and perhaps why, and that someone on the
> list had
> > made a study of that particular workhouse.
> >
> > Betsy's address of Upper Bemerton St was not a wealthy enough area for
her
> to
> > be a 'live-in' servant, and agian there is no trace on the 1881 census.
> >
> > I've considered most possibilities - even that she was one of the
un-named
> > corpses dragged from the Thames, what I'm looking for is clues to point
in
> a
> > positive direction.
> >
> > Nick.
> >
> > MaryH wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Nick,
> > > The child was probably cared for by the grandparents because mother
was
> > > unable to look after her, for example if she was in service or working
> in
> > > some way. The mother may then have married and her new husband may not
> have
> > > wanted to take the child on, or may not have even known about the
child.
> > >
> > > Have you checked the marriage indexes for a marriage of the mother?
That
> > > would explain her apparent disappearance.
> > > Good luck
> > >
> > > Mary Hallett - West Sussex
> > > Visit my Website at www.FourbearsUK.homestead.com
> > > MILLS, HUMBLE - Newcastle upon Tyne
> > > BARKAS - worldwide
> > > HICKS, SADLER - Oxfordshire & Hertfordshire
> > > HALLETT - Somerset & London
> > >
> >
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