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Northamptonshire / Re: Boarding Out Children
« on: Thursday 25 January 24 17:28 GMT (UK)  »
I wonder if a more extreme form of "Boarding out children" was the case of the Home Children Scheme. It has been estimated that between the 1860s and the 1930s over 100,000 children were sent to Canada. This involved children who were orphaned, abandoned or were paupers on the assumption that they would benefit from a healthy life and moral upbringing in the countryside. Reality often proved otherwise.

Alan

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Northamptonshire / Re: St Johns Street Northampton
« on: Tuesday 18 April 23 18:19 BST (UK)  »
Don't know if this might help. There are photos from St Johns Street and a plan on this page:

Northampton St. Johns Street

Alan

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Rutland / Re: Thomas Christopher (or Christopher Thomas) Stokes
« on: Monday 02 January 23 22:29 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you - most informative.

I've sent you a PM if it's of interest.

Cheers Alan

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Rutland / Re: Thomas Christopher (or Christopher Thomas) Stokes
« on: Monday 02 January 23 20:41 GMT (UK)  »
That looks correct - my mistake for the 1871 suggestions. However where was the wife in 1881?

Alan

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Rutland / Re: Thomas Christopher (or Christopher Thomas) Stokes
« on: Monday 02 January 23 19:55 GMT (UK)  »
Still something of a mystery is Mr Stokes. He appears in the 1881 census as a visitor in Station Road Great Easton, the house of horse dealer Charles Pretty. He is declared as married although he was on his own.

Curiously there was a marriage in the Uppingham District in the second quarter of 1870 between Thomas Stokes and Elizabeth Buzzard or Mary Ann Cant. Could Thomas getting married been the spur to Sarah Ann Claypole to take him to Court?

I haven't found any positive evidence of him (or a wife) after 1881.

This also leads to another conundrum. Was Thomas the father of Sarah Ann's daughter, Lizzie Alice, born a couple of years before? If he was, why hadn't this couple done the right thing and married? If not, who was this alternative "sperm donor"? Sarah Ann had a further six children after she married in August 1871.

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Rutland / Re: Thomas Christopher (or Christopher Thomas) Stokes
« on: Sunday 01 January 23 22:34 GMT (UK)  »
Her name was Sarah Ann Claypole and she named her son Thomas Christopher. She lived in Cottingham, Northamptonshire.

If of interest, I've sent you a link to the full tragic story in a PM

This little bit of information (his parentage) has been a brick wall since I started my family history research

It would be of interest to know whether any of this filtered through to the Stokes family!

Alan 

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Rutland / Re: Thomas Christopher (or Christopher Thomas) Stokes
« on: Sunday 01 January 23 22:15 GMT (UK)  »
The report says "when the case was called on neither party answered - Inspector Norman said the case had been privately settled"

The tragedy is that five years later the resultant little boy was murdered by his next door neighbour.

Alan

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Rutland / Thomas Christopher (or Christopher Thomas) Stokes
« on: Sunday 01 January 23 21:20 GMT (UK)  »
Looking for any information about the above, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Stokes, baptised in Caldecott  on January 21st 1849.

There is a report in the Northampton Herald June 19th 1870 of an individual in the Northampton Herald of that name from Caldecott on a charge of bastardy. Could this be the same person?

Thanks Alan

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Leicestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Welford Road Cemetery Lookup Request - Green
« on: Monday 28 November 22 15:03 GMT (UK)  »
She was buried in Consecrated Plot E 1197

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