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childcare around 1871

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Helen

Helen Report 23 Jan 2007 20:07

Hi, Can anyone help with this? One of my ancestors was an ironstone miner, in 1871 he was a single parent due to the death of his wife, he had no surviving in-laws and a four year old son to take care of - what would his options have been? I have found him in Skiningrove as a boarder in 1871 but I think his son is in Glaisdale under his fathers' name as 'nurs child'. Is this a 19th centuary form of child-minding? Helen.

Alexandra

Alexandra Report 23 Jan 2007 20:17

hi, i think a nurse child was a foster child alex :o)

Helen

Helen Report 23 Jan 2007 20:23

Thanks Alex, He did go back to his father when he remarried cos he's living with them all in 1881. It must have been profitable as there seems to be a few on close pages of the census, all at different address! Thanks a lot Helen.

Jack

Jack Report 23 Jan 2007 20:26

If you Google 'nurse child' and click on the second listing, there's some interesting info to read. Jack

Helen

Helen Report 23 Jan 2007 20:31

Thanks Jack, it seems to be fairly consistant with the little fella being fostered out until someone could look after him at home - it seems likely that his mother died within months of his birth and as his dad did take him back at least he wasn't just left on a doorstep somewhere! Thanks once again Helen.