Workhouse pregnancies (General)

by D I Elsmore , Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 20:48 (3559 days ago) @ biokmst

Hi Cindy, Reference unmarried mothers. Some mothers who were rather young working away from home in the big cities if they fell pregnant were transfered back to where they were born to give birth in the workhouse and quite often in the later stages of their pregnacy so some of these mothers were only in the workhouse 1 or 2 months, and some babies were adopted so tracing can be very difficult unless you find a reference perhaps by families registering after birth or hear- say which i don`t like to repeat myself. Reading History, a lot of children were moved around and it got so bad what with wars as well the country had lost control for a period many religions/churches helped out and local parishes of the day. Ivan