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« on: Thursday 12 October 17 23:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Omega
I'm not sure when you posted this but I think you may be asking about my great grandmother Amy Ellingford who was born in Medway Kent in the workhouse 1888 along with Ann Ellingford aged 40 and 3 other children with surname Ellingford, Harriet 14years Henry Alfred aged 8 years and Mary Ann aged 17years and Amy aged 0 all were discharged on 19th March 1888. Amy ended up in Brighton and was in the Warren Farm Home in rottingdean Brighton at the time of the 1901 census aged 12 but unsure what happened to Ann or the other children. Also having looked back at a much earlier census it appears Ann may have had other children before marrying John Ellingford as they bear different surnames on an earlier census I found but I'm not a hundred percent on this. My mother said that Amy and her mother lived in the open picking hop's to earn money for food after leaving the workhouse in Kent and ended up in Brighton.
Amy married at 17 years old in 1905 to Henry Cox and went on to have 4 children the eldest being Ellen who was my grandmother born 1907.
Hope this helps I have a bit more info but still researching her myself as Amy never said much about her childhood on my that before she passed away at the grand age of 97 in 1986 that she didn't want to go in the workhouse...that being Elm Grove Brighton...hope we are talking about the same Ellingfords