Workhouse pregnancies (General)

by biokmst , Canton, Ohio USA, Monday, February 23, 2015, 18:00 (3366 days ago) @ biokmst

Thank you all for your responses. You do provide good and thoughtful reasons for this occurrence. I was looking up the baptism of my grxgrandfather and noticed the book I added the link to. It was a little shocking to go through the pages and see so many single mothers whose babies were baptized while mothers were sheltered by the Workhouse. Even though the poor, sick and incarcerated would be majority in a place like this, as well as a concentration of baptisms considering the adjoined chapel, it still seems disproportionate to me. Of course, I don't know the total number of people living there either, but there seem to be a couple women on each page of the registry.

I don't know if you are able to see the baptismal book with this link but it is listed as "Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913"

Thanks again, for your replies!

Blessings!

Cindy Boughton James

http://interactive.ancestry.com/5066/41511_636897_1795-00070/694092?backurl=http%3a%2f%...