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Offline StephEv

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« on: Tuesday 04 March 08 16:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi All, I have a relation who was born illegitimate in around 1844, in the census of 1851 it shows him in the section on Relation to the Head of the family as Nursing .Anyone able to fill me in on what it actually means ???
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Re: Nursing
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 17:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jeanee,

It makes me think of nurse child (=foster child).

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Re: Nursing
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 18:07 GMT (UK) »
Usually a child placed by parents, a hospital  or the parish elders with a wet nurse at first and then stayed in the family until old enough to be returned home or apprenticed or employed. The family taking in a nurse child were paid by whoever put them out to nurse.
Essex: Boosey/Boozey; Leveridge; McAllister: Morley: Webb
Suffolk: Morley; Leveridge:Crowe; Barnard: Reeve: Webb: Cobb
Norfolk: Hunt, Hammond, Groome,King's Lynn;
Cambridge: Groome
Islington, Holborn, Tottenham: Hunt; Nash
East London/West Ham/East Ham/Dagenham/Bow,Mile End: Smith; Morley: Boosey: McAllister: Webb
Gloucestershire: Smith; Fildes: Ashwin: DJones; Lloyd; Prior; Jenkins;Mitchell; Phillips
Somerset: Smith; Jenkins; Wyatt;Cole;Mitchell
Scotland: McAllister; Love;Lang;Ferguson
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