Elizabeth HOLLIDAY

Elizabeth HOLLIDAY was born between 1840 and 1841 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 8. Additional notes we have for her are "alternative forename Eliza, alternative surname HOLLADAY".

Her date of death is unknown. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but we are actively searching records for further information.

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Fact file on Elizabeth HOLLIDAY

Born: 1840-1841
First recorded entry:
transfer from Southwark Christ Church to Tooting
08-Dec-1848
transfer IDs: SCC050
Admission:
from Tooting to Southwark Christ Church
04-Jan-1849
transfer IDs: SCC026, NSM156
Admission:
to Brixton Grove House
20-Jun-1849
transfer IDs: NSM028
Last recorded entry:
discharged from Brixton Grove House
03-Aug-1850 to stepfather Wiliam Joiner in Chatham
transfer IDs: NSM028
Outcome: Survived the epidemic
Died: unknown

Workhouses and pauper farms

During the 1840s and 1850s, workhouses were often places of hardship, where children such as Elizabeth were sent due to difficult circumstances including poverty and family bereavements. The workhouse system was known for its strict rules and conditions, offering only the barest of necessities in exchange for hard labour.

The Tooting pauper home was not in itself a workhouse, but a private institution to which numerous London workhouses 'farmed out' children. The condition of many children living and working in the Tooting establishment is known to have been pitiful even before cholera broke out there.