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Nurse Child?!
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Battenburg | Report | 24 Mar 2009 19:52 |
A nursechild is cared for by someone else for money. A foster child. Definitely not one being nursed. |
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Madmeg | Report | 24 Mar 2009 19:36 |
One family of mine had a nurse child. She was 9 years old, so extremely unlikely to be breastfed. Sometimes the family who took her in were paid a lump sum (like two shillings!) to take the child. |
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LF2000 | Report | 24 Mar 2009 16:33 |
My father was living with a registered 'nurse mother' until he was 5, in Ireland. This was from 1944 to 1950. The nuns would bring the children to the door, i have been told. The HSE in Ireland holds records for the children the family took in. My father was never legally adopted by them so i suppose he would have been a 'nurse child'. It would be like foster parents of today i imagine. |
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Kelly | Report | 16 Oct 2008 17:33 |
To everyone - thank you very much!! |
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George_of_Westbury | Report | 16 Oct 2008 17:26 |
Here is another explanation. |
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Researching: |
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Kate | Report | 16 Oct 2008 17:08 |
I think it means something like a foster child - one who hadn't been adopted by the family and was recognised as having a separate name, but still lived with them. |
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Kelly | Report | 16 Oct 2008 16:56 |
Hello, can anyone help...What does 'Nurse Child' mean?? |