Gus; Or they'd have died. Best wishes Paul Prescott ----- Original Message ----- From: "A P L" <annepaling@hotmail.com> To: <gustysoe@tiscali.co.uk>; <warwick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [WAR] Criminals' Children - early 1800s > If there were no family members to take them in then they would most > likely > have been placed in > Workhouses, Orphanages, or Industrial Schools, depending on their age and > sex. > > This would have been before the old Poor Law was amended in 1834. > Gilbert's > Act of 1782 would still have been in force which said that children were > still to be sent to the "poor house". A bit like "Oliver Twist" which was > written around 1837. > > http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?education/early.shtml > > This page gives information on the various places children might be placed > before 1834 Act. > > > > Anne Paling > SHEFFIELD, U.K. > > > > > >>From: "Gus Tysoe" <gustysoe@tiscali.co.uk> >>To: <warwick@rootsweb.com> >>Subject: [WAR] Criminals' Children - early 1800s >>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:10:11 +0100 >> >>Hello List, >> >>Although the people 'behind' this enquiry have no known connection with >>WAR, >>I'm quietly confident that there must have been a number of WAR families >>where a similar set of circumstances arose... >> >>I have a gentleman who was hanged in 1805 for 'uttering' forged Bank of >>England Notes. Four years later, his widow was found guilty of being 'in >>possession' of forged Bank Notes (and some base silver coins), and was >>transported to Australia. >> >>At the time she was found guilty she and her late husband had baptised 6 >>children between 1796 and 1805 - and there is no mention in the >>transportation records that she was accompanied by any infant children. >>I've >>so far been unable to make any likely identification of any of them in the >>Censuses or the NBI. >> >> >>The question that I'm hoping the Collective Wisdom of the List may be able >>to answer is: >> >>"What was likely to've happened to those children?" >> >>There were no Social Services in 1809 to take them into "care" - and (as >>far >>as I can see) no others of the same surname in the area where the trials >>and >>baptisms were held. >> >> >>Help, please! >> >>Gus >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes >>in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >