| Case number: |
5081 |
| Application year: |
1895 |
| Name: |
E or C |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Year of birth: |
c. 1894 |
| Home: |
St Mark's Nursery Home For Girls, Tregarth; St Mark's Home For Girls, Caernarfon |
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| Description: |
At Christmas 1895 a one year old baby was found abandoned in a brown paper parcel in shop in Carnarvon, Wales. Nothing was known about her. Her name was made up by those caring for her - she was referred to as "C". She was initially put into the Carnarvon workhouse and she later went into the care of the Waifs and Strays' Society. She was boarded out for periods and also lived at St Mark's Nursery Home, Tregarth and the St Marks Home in Carnarvon. C. caught phthisis [tuberculosis] at the end of 1912, and died in Torquay in September 1913, aged 17. [This disease was endemic in Great Britain at this time. Death rates among children and young people were far higher in the early twentieth century than they are today, with our improved medical care]. |
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| Keywords: |
Abandonment; Foster care; Health; Workhouses |
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| Items: |
1. Application to Waifs and Strays' Society c. 26 December 1895
2. Letter from Miss Sackville West 'St Stephen's Day' [26 December] 1895
3. Letter from Miss Sackville West 6 July 1896
4. Letter from Miss Sackville West 12 April 1897
5. Report of a Child 10 July 1910
6. Letter from St Mark's Home, Carnarvon 11 November 1912
7. Copy of letter from Dr Powell 14 May 1913
8. Letter from the Carnarvon Union 6 June 1913
9. Letter from Edward Rudolf 10 June 1913
10. Letter from St Mark's Home 16 August 1913
11. Letter from Edward Rudolf 19 August 1913
12. Letter from St Mark's Home 12 September 1913
13. Certificate of Death 22 September 1913 |
