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skb
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A lost boy
« on: Friday 28 April 06 19:04 BST (UK) »

Found this sad little entry on the 1841 census of West London Union Workhouse

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Romilly
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Re: A lost boy
« Reply #1 on: Friday 28 April 06 20:00 BST (UK) »

Oh, - that is just so sad!!

I do hope that he was eventually found.

Romilly.


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Re: A lost boy
« Reply #2 on: Friday 28 April 06 20:01 BST (UK) »

skb, how sad, it breaks my heart to think of the hardships these poor little uns must have suffered. I think we should use his entry as the next rootschat challenge and find out what became of the poor little mite.

If we could all go back to Victorian England, we would be OK if we were prosperous but God help us if we were poor Cry


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Re: A lost boy
« Reply #3 on: Friday 28 April 06 20:02 BST (UK) »

Oh, that is so sad. I wonder what happened to him Undecided

My youngest son is only 3, and I just couldn't imagine being without him.

Jan


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« Reply #4 on: Friday 28 April 06 20:05 BST (UK) »

I wonder why he couldn't tell them his first name. I hope he found his mother again. It may say on the Work house minutes what happen to him. Cry


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Re: A lost boy
« Reply #5 on: Friday 28 April 06 20:13 BST (UK) »

Quote from: CU on Friday 28 April 06 20:05 BST (UK)

I wonder why he couldn't tell them his first name. I hope he found his mother again. It may say on the Work house minutes what happen to him. Cry

Has anyone found him on the next Census? (Difficult I suppose, if we don't know his name:-(((

Romilly.

(My husband was "found" by a Policeman & taken to a Police Station when he was 3, - he had been happily running round the counters in Barkers Department Store in Kensington, (while his mother shopped) when a policeman collared him & said "You're lost". He wasn't & tried to point this out, but he wasn't listened to, & was carted off in tears, - but later "found" by his mother:-)

Romilly.


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Re: A lost boy
« Reply #6 on: Friday 28 April 06 20:16 BST (UK) »

I have allways thought that this is where 'the lost boys' came from in the Peter Pan story. So sad but it happened a lot.


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Re: A lost boy
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 09 May 06 21:49 BST (UK) »

This reminds me of something my parents found when searching parish records in Sheerness. They were particularly struck by the entries in the burial register - "Woman aged about 30, found on the beach" and "Boy, off the Jamaica sloop" were two of them I remember.

Poor little boy. Aged about 3 - maybe he was too upset to tell them his name, or just wasn't yet speaking clearly enough to be understood.


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Re: A lost boy
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 09 May 06 21:54 BST (UK) »

Children of that age are great, aren't they? You ask them "what's your name, love?" and they stare round the room and then eventually take their fist out of their mouth to say something like "Do you know, I've got new socks!" (I used to know a little girl whose every remark was preceded with "Do you know" - she was gorgeous! She'd be about 18 now! I can't believe it!


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Re: A lost boy
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 10 May 06 11:21 BST (UK) »

There is a series of tv programs on in the mornings at the moment about people who were "found" as babies. Most of them have no way of finding out anything about their family backgrounds.

This morning's one featured an elderly man who found his mother, but they didn't hit it off. However, through genealogy, he found some other relatives and finally (now in his seventies) has a family.


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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 10 May 06 14:53 BST (UK) »

Quote from: skb on Wednesday 10 May 06 11:21 BST (UK)

There is a series of tv programs on in the mornings at the moment about people who were "found" as babies. Most of them have no way of finding out anything about their family backgrounds.
This morning's one featured an elderly man who found his mother, but they didn't hit it off. However, through genealogy, he found some other relatives and finally (now in his seventies) has a family.

I saw the one yesterday skb,

Which featured the lady found on the Downs nearly 70 yrs ago now, when she was 9months old. Real heartwrenching stuff...

There's a book to go with the series by Kate Adie.

Romilly.


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