A lost boy

[skb]

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

[Romilly]

Oh, - that is just so sad!!

I do hope that he was eventually found.

Romilly.

[wheeldon]

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  

[Lloydy]

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

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


Jan

[CU]

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.

[Romilly]

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.

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.

[wheeldon]

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.

[Headbanger Veron]

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.

[MrsLizzy]

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!