George STIRLING

George STIRLING was born between 1834 and 1835 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 3. Additional notes we have for his are "father James tailor, mother Elizabeth dead, also spelt STERLING".

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Fact file on George STIRLING

His father was called James and his mother was called Elizabeth.

Born: 1834-1835
First recorded entry:
to Tooting
05-Mar-1837
transfer IDs: NSM005
Admission:
from Tooting to Workhouse
06-Jan-1849
transfer IDs: SCC060, NSM005
Admission:
to Brixton Grove House
19-Jun-1849
transfer IDs: NSM061, NSM069
Admission:
discharged from Brixton Grove House
13-Feb-1851 to Mr Sheers clogmaker
transfer IDs: NSM061
Admission:
to Brixton Grove House
18-Feb-1851
transfer IDs: NSM073, NSM108
Last recorded entry:
discharged from Brixton Grove House
22-May-1851 to Mr Haynes
transfer IDs: NSM073
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 George 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.