Marrying a workhouse inmate!!

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Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 29 Send Message	Colette	Report	27 Jul 2006 15:53
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 29 Send Message	Thankyou everyone Regards Colette
Member Since: September 2004 Posts: 9,872 Send Message	Merry	Report	27 Jul 2006 13:27
	The workhouse would be only too gald for someone to take her on!! This would mean she would no longer be the responsibility of the parish and, once she had married, would be the responsibility of her husband............ Merry
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	27 Jul 2006 13:24
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Not if she was legally of age, I wouldn't have thought. She might be a relative of someone who worked there?
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 4,785 Send Message	Val wish I'd never started	Report	27 Jul 2006 12:28
	I have a book about workhouses and in there it had the story of a Boy who saved up enough to buy a home and get his Sister out , so whether that was usual or not I dont know.
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 29 Send Message	Colette	Report	27 Jul 2006 12:19
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 29 Send Message	My relative Ignatius Smith married Elizabeth Ann Taylor in Blackburn 1888. Her address is down as Union Buildings Blackburn, Lancs, which I now know to mean the Workhouse. Would Ignatius have had to have paid to get her out or seek some sort of permission. Does anyone know???? Thankyou Colette