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Any ideas please?
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Beverley | Report | 19 Apr 2010 19:35 |
I looked into my 'Nurse Child' and he was with another family as a 'visitor' then a seaman. It sounds to me as if he had no parents and made a life for himself at sea. Let's hope all went well for him there. |
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Battenburg | Report | 19 Apr 2010 10:59 |
My grandmother was a nursechild on the 1891 census . A lodger with the same family in 1901 and a servant in 1911. |
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Beverley | Report | 18 Apr 2010 21:11 |
Thanks for the link Simon. That's a useful site. I've saved it for later. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 18 Apr 2010 21:01 |
I agree with the others - it is the same as a foster child today. |
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SimonSez | Report | 18 Apr 2010 20:59 |
Hi Beverley |
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Beverley | Report | 18 Apr 2010 20:40 |
Thanks InspectorGreenPen - I hadn't thought of fostering but that could be right. He doesn't appear on the next census with them. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 18 Apr 2010 20:37 |
A bit like Fostering today. |
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Beverley | Report | 18 Apr 2010 20:31 |
Does anyone have any idea what it means on a census if it says 'Nurse Child' instead of 'Head' 'Wife' 'Son' or 'Daughter'? |