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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] professional begging
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 23:10:04 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20030909000715.77857.qmail@span.corp.yahoo.com>


In message <>, lila george
<> writes
>anyone on the list have any knowledge on what the general punishment was for
>begging around the1890-1900's was?
>
>were they sentenced to jail or were some sent to the workhouse?
prison first, and then, if no assets or income, the workhouse if this
was applied for. This would cover families who had just become
desperately poor and were begging to keep from starving.
A professional beggar, though, generally had amassed assts and just
took prison as an irritating interruption in his or her normal career.


--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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