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Nurse...pauper
« on: Tuesday 18 April 06 04:58 BST (UK) »
Hi,
 Can someone explain what.... Nurse...pauper, means as an occupation....found it in the 1861 census.
thanks
CJ

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Re: Nurse...pauper
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 18 April 06 05:25 BST (UK) »
Hi chickie
She could have been a nurse who worked in a workhouse looking after paupers. Most workhouse  had Matrons and nurses as staff


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Re: Nurse...pauper
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 12:35 BST (UK) »
OR............she may have been a nurse who was unemployed/ill and found herself an inmate at the workhouse.

Enumerators nearly always give the occupations of workhouse inmates.  If she is described as a "pauper" under the "relationship" column, then I would have thought that this would probably be the case.

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Re: Nurse...pauper
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 15:59 BST (UK) »
Hi Rick,
Thank you so much for the responses, that makes sense to me.
Chickie
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