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From: "Liz Parkinson" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] advice please
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:00:43 +0000


Hi - you cant be certain she did live in the parish when she was asmitted to
the workhouse - perhaps her parents had died and she lived with an aunt or a
grandparent in the area of the workhouse, and she was admitted after they
died. If she had lived in the area for a year she would be entitled to go
there rather than be sent back to wherever home was.

Also - she could still in fact be a foundling, left at the workshouse steps,
even tho she gives a father on the marraige certificate. In the late 19th
century with its veneer of high morals it was a stigma to be illegitimate
and people made up all sorts of tales as to their origins, so she could have
told her husband ot be that her father was a deceased customs officer called
Frederick to hide her illegitimacy. (My claimed to have been brought over
from the France to escape the revolution to hide his!)

It would be worth looking for a birth entry for Louisa in the Bristol area

Good luck

Liz






>From: "Audrey DuMont" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: [UK-W&H] advice please
>Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 05:25:39 -0000
>
>Hi!
>I wonder if anyone can help me please. Would a child be placed in a
>workhouse, if they hadn't lived in the parish?
>
>Please, let me explain......
>My Grandfather was born in the Bristol City Workhouse in 1895. I believe I
>found his mother, Louisa, in the same workhouse on the 1891 census,
>although I will never be able to prove for sure that it is her, as the
>records for that workhouse are not available.
>
>Louisa married in 1899, to whom we assume was not the father of her child,
>but on the certificate her father is recorded as being Frederick, a customs
>officer (got a cousin following that lead), but deceased - another brick
>wall!
>
>However, I now think I may have found Louisa in the same workhouse on the
>1881 census - the age is about right (12), although the surname is spelt
>Stevens, instead of Stephens and her place of birth is recorded as
>'unknown'. Again the workhouse records can't help me prove this one way or
>another and if it isn't her, then she is no-where on this census.
>
>So would an orphaned child, who came from outside the parish / city, be
>placed in a local workhouse?
>Thanks for anything you can suggest.
>
>Regards - Audrey Du'Mont.
>
>
>
>
>
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