Isaac NICHOLSON

Isaac NICHOLSON was born in 1836 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 8. Additional notes we have for his are "father Isaac deserted, mother Harriet dead".

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Fact file on Isaac NICHOLSON

His father was called Isaac and his mother was called Harriet.

Born: 05-Jul-1836
First recorded entry:
to Tooting
31-Oct-1844
transfer IDs: NSM046
Admission:
from Tooting to Margate
06-Jan-1849
transfer IDs: NSM046
Admission:
to Brixton Grove House
20-Jul-1849
transfer IDs: NSM073
Admission:
from Brixton Grove House to Workhouse
21-Mar-1850 then to Mr Davey box maker in the room of Robert King (0139) left due to ill-health
transfer IDs: NSM073
Admission:
to Brixton Grove House
26-Mar-1850
transfer IDs: NSM053, NSM140
Last recorded entry:
discharged from Brixton Grove House
30-May-1850 to Mr Constable hair dresser
transfer IDs: NSM053
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 Isaac 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.