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From: lila george <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] professional begging
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:22:43 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <z+lK5IA8+kX$Ew4D@varneys.demon.co.uk>


thank you for the info i really appreciate it

is that a book on this subject you e-mailed?

i feel like i need to read some books about the social
aspects of this era.

lila george
--- Eve McLaughlin <> wrote:
> 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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