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Orphans advise
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Christopher | Report | 23 Aug 2006 15:27 |
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Can any one advise me if there is a Website or contact address if one wishes to investigate children who at one time another have become orphans. During my research I have found a couple of ancestors who became orphans during there childhood and I would like to investigate what happened to there parents, and into which instituation they may or may not have been placed. The children were born around 1900 and they do not appear in the 1901 Census for the Leeds Work house. Any body any ideas. Kind regards, Christopher |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 23 Aug 2006 15:30 |
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Christopher They need not necessarily have been in the workhouse if they were orphans - they could have been taken in by relatives or sent to an Orphanage or Training school. Think you need to find out when their parents died first - did BOTH parents die at the same time? One or other parent may have remarried. OC |
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Merry | Report | 23 Aug 2006 15:31 |
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This may not be relevant to your post, but it reminded me that in Victorian days a child could be called an orphan if only one parent was dead!! To be honest I didn't believe that when I read it, but my trusty Collins dictionary (1956) says, ''a child bereft of one or both parents'' whereas my Oxford Dictionary (about 1995) says, ''A child who has lost both parents''. Merry |
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Christopher | Report | 23 Aug 2006 15:37 |
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The Orphan tag given to the two children has been basically passed down. My Father always called them the Scottish orphans. And I guess I should first disprove or prove that connection. I only have the childrens fathers name and do not know how the Scottish records work or if I can uncover Scottish birth records etc. Again any help would be appreciated. Kind regards, Christopher |
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Glen In Tinsel Knickers | Report | 23 Aug 2006 16:03 |
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Pre 1905 Scottish births can be searched on Scotlandspeople website. It's pay per view,30 credits cost £6,a search costs 1 credit,you can download census images,birth.marriage and death certs direct from the site for 5 credits.(yes a cert for £1) Scottish records tend to have more details than English ones too. The index for bmd cover Births 1855-1905 Marriages 1855-1925 Deaths 1855-1955 Pre 1855 records are also available but are Church Records. Glen |
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