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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Need a definition "Nurse child"
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:44:53 +0100
In-Reply-To: <42BD55A4.9030702@cox-internet.com>


In message <>, Sheila Beatty & Ron
Krout <> writes

>Could the relationship "nurse child" actually be foster parent/child
>relationship,

yes - could be a private arrangement by the parent/s or an official
arrangement by some workhouses which preferred 'cottage homes' to big
children's homes for the littlest ones.

> Did the workhouses normally board the
>children out in private homes?
The younger ones (to 4) who were orphans or taken in because of
illtreatment, very oftren.

--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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