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