Their adopted son was previously named Mariano, according to a child protection investigation with the parents a day after the death. They adopted him in July 2012 through the White Earth Band of ...

Skeletons of over 500 children who died during the Great Hunger were found buried in a mass grave within what was once the Kilkenny Union Workhouse. With over three years of research on their ...

Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work.

Those jailed at the Workhouse for five days or more could qualify. "Some folks were in there over 700 to 800 days, they'll stand to gain a decent amount of money," he shared.

Widow Carpenter, "support for her crippled child." This woman was likely the wife of blacksmith Edward Carpenter who had died in 1745 or 1746. The estate inventory evaluated the dwelling house at ...

But a “refuge” it was not, and workhouses were overrun with abuse, neglect, poor working conditions, malnutrition and forced child labor, according to Historic UK.