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From: Marj Kohli <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] London - Poor/Workhouse in Victorian England
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:50:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4682D68F.4E153ECD.00895AA1@aol.com>

At 11:40 AM 17/01/2003 -0500, wrote:
>This is a long shot I know, but the power of the internet never fails to
>amaze me. I have the following story from my grandmother who now lives in
>Sussex. Evidently her mother was born in 1871 in Birmingham and in her
>teen years walked with her mother towards the south coast of England. They
>must have lived in poor houses on the way as far as I can tell. Her name
>was Annie Elizabeth Smith (her mothers name is unknown) and her fathers
>name is Henry Smith - I cant be sure if he was with them. The interesting
>thing about this is that Annie and her mother were in a poor house in
>london at some time in the 1880's and had a picture taken in some form or
>other with Queen Victoria. It was for a magazine or periodical that was
>running a story "The Queen and the Paupers". My grandmother remembers
>seeing the picture, but now no one knows where it is. I have searched for
>Annie Smith on a number of poorhouse web sites, but with a name like Smith
>I have very little to go on..
>Any suggestionsThanksVANDA

Vanda,

Here is another long-shot for you. The Illustrated London News did a great
many articles like that. You can contact them and see if they have such a photo

http://www.ilng.co.uk/library.htm

Regards..

Marjorie Kohli
Waterloo, ON Canada

http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/

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