Guildford Dragon5d
When Victorian Poor Relief Helped Infirm Albury Widow and Vulnerable Daughter to Stay Together
Soon after Emily’s birth, the family moved to Worplesdon where five siblings were born by 1825. Two more siblings, George and ...
Independent.ie19d
The Indo Daily: Hidden tales from Monto – Dublin’s notorious red-light district
Monto’s earliest madams in the 1860s were women that survived the horror of the Famine and the brutality of poverty and the workhouse. They were survivors with little other options but to sell ...
Andover Advertiser28d
How a Woodstock trader transformed Andover High Street
When Lynn’s, the long-established family ironmongers at 7 Bridge Street, Andover, was cleared out in the early 1980s, an old hand-written accounts book from 1860-61 was found ... specific payments ...
The New York Times28d
Bills Before the Legislature.; ACT PROVIDING FOR A DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION.
Section 7 confers the power of detaining in the Workhouse persons who shall have been duly committed to the City Prison, the Penitentiary or the Almshouse; but prohibits employing vagrants or ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch29d
St. Louis mayor: Workhouse will come down in March
Cancel anytime. The front entrance of the Medium Security Institution, the city jail commonly known as the workhouse, in 2021. ST. LOUIS — Mayor Tishaura O. Jones said this week that the ...