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From: Chris Newall <>
Subject: Re: puzzled
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 07:52:15 +0000
References: <a0o3r8$umn$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>


In message <>, dwilcox
<> writes
>It sounds like your family moved from one parish to another, and then
>the father
>deserted them leaving them chargeable to the parish. In such cases, the family
>would be returned to their parish of origin and probably placed in the
>workhouse
>there. The father may have also been prosecuted for desertion if they
>ever found
>him again.

But bear in mind that the family would be returned to the errant
husband's parish of settlement, which might not be that in which the
wife had been born.

--
Chris Newall EMail :
Ealing, London, W5 Website: http://www.rebus.demon.co.uk/

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