Richard Ingram WILSON

Richard Ingram WILSON was born in 1840 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at an unknown age. Additional notes we have for his are "father Richard Ingram WILSON in workhouse, mother dead".

His 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 Richard Ingram WILSON

Richard Ingram had siblings, who would most likely have been admitted and discharged at the same time:

sister: WILSON Eliza born 1844
sister: WILSON Emma born 1846

His father was called Richard Ingram WILSON.

Born: 1840
First recorded entry:
to Brixton Grove House
10-Sep-1849
transfer IDs: NSM106
Last recorded entry:
from Brixton Grove House to Workhouse
02-Feb-1850 then to discharge with father
transfer IDs: NSM106
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 Richard Ingram 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.