« Reply #3 on: Friday 29 December 17 16:51 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Rena
They most definitely didn't move up a social notch as most of them died in the workhouse sadly.
Will go off and have a wee read
Ann
That's very sad, my uncle told my cousin that he had an uncle in there and he had a trade too. Hospitals giving free treatment were in workhouse grounds, which many people of today don't realise.
The American civil war was officially held between 1861 and 1865 and as with most wars this one affected Britain. British trade was halted because North American ships blockaded ports, which meant no raw cotton for your ancestor to weave. Many British companies, including my stationer gt. grandfather, went out of business which caused unemployment to rocket upwards. Some like my grandfather's brother turned to South Africa for employment but he died in 1879 during that country's uprising.
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