Susannah DELL

Susannah DELL was born in 1841 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at an unknown age. Additional notes we have for her are "parents Thomas William and Elizabeth".

Her date of death is Jan-1849 (aged about 8). The listed cause of death was cholera.

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Fact file on Susannah DELL

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

sister: DELL Louisa born 1842

Her father was called Thomas William and her mother was called Elizabeth.

Born: 1841
First recorded entry:
died in Tooting
01-Jan-1849 date unclear
transfer IDs: NSM053
Outcome: Died in institution
Died: Jan-1849

Workhouses and pauper farms

During the 1840s and 1850s, workhouses were often places of hardship, where children such as Susannah 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.