Elizabeth WEEKS

Elizabeth WEEKS was born in 1834 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at an unknown age. Additional notes we have for her are "father James William dead, mother Ann m. to Henry MANSELL 01/01/1844 in workhouse".

Her 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 Elizabeth WEEKS

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

sister: WEEKS Ann born 07-May-1839
sister: WEEKS Emily born 24-Feb-1837

Her father was called James WIlliam and her mother was called Ann.

Born: 05-Dec-1834
First recorded entry:
discharged from Tooting
22-Oct-1847 to mother
transfer IDs: NSM096
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 Elizabeth 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.