Horatio Nelson BIRD

Horatio Nelson BIRD was born in 1837 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 7.

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 Horatio Nelson BIRD

Horatio Nelson had a sibling, who would most likely have been admitted and discharged at the same time:

brother: BIRD John born 01-Oct-1834

Born: 13-Jul-1837
First recorded entry:
to Tooting
16-May-1845
transfer IDs: NSM056
Admission:
from Tooting to Southwark Christ Church
04-Jan-1849
transfer IDs: SCC023, NSM056
Admission:
to Brixton Grove House
19-Jun-1849
Last recorded entry:
discharged from Brixton Grove House
17-Jan-1850 to Mr Sadler bootmaker
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 Horatio Nelson 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.