Elizabeth ASHENDEN

Elizabeth ASHENDEN was born in 1838 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 10. Additional notes we have for her are "parents in workhouse, father a labourer, in census 1841-1861, born in Newington".

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 ASHENDEN

Her father was called Henry and her mother was called Ann.

Born: 1838
First recorded entry:
transfer from Southwark Christ Church to Tooting
08-Sep-1848 admitted 10 Aug, notice taken 19 Aug
transfer IDs: SCC038
Admission:
from Tooting to Southwark Christ Church
05-Oct-1848 to be passed home with parents
transfer IDs: SCC021
Last recorded entry:
from Tooting to Faversham
05-Dec-1848
transfer IDs: NSM143
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.