In message <002701c40fa2$3d6d2c20$4dccfc3e@oemcomputer>, "norman.lee1" <norman.lee1@virgin.net> writes >Baby farming and puppy farming have more sinister inferences, don't they. I >remember a while ago the list having a discussion on the baby sort occurring >in and around 19th London and a very nasty practice it seemed to be. It was still a version of a 'commodity' handed over to a user who then made what profit could be made out of it. (and often that meant disposing of or starving the infant) Kilburn was reckoned to be a major place for farming babies in the 1890s -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society