Agreed w/Wallace's comment. I have a LOT of marriages like that (in NewEngland) where the first wife dies and the husband, needing support for the children send for one of the sisters to help and one thing leads to another and ... 2nd marriage and baby. (Not necessarily in that order.) <another grin> Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wallace Fullerton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [ANGUS] Placement of infant in foster care early 1900's > Or, Nivard, they might re-marry to get a built-in babysitter. At least > that's what they often did in the colonies but maybe we folk over here > were a bit more imaginative than back there . . . <grin> > > On 7/31/2011 6:10 PM, Nivard Ovington wrote: >> If a man was made a widower with small children there were only a few >> options he had , give up work >> and beg and scrape an existance if he could or give the children up to >> either the Parish or other >> family members or he could pay someone to look after the child or >> children, often a family member >> but there were people who did it for a living > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message