Emma CROOK

Emma CROOK was born in 1839 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 9. Additional notes we have for her are "orphan".

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 Emma CROOK

Born: 1839
First recorded entry:
transfer from Southwark Christ Church to Tooting
08-Dec-1848
transfer IDs: SCC057
Admission:
from Tooting to Margate
06-Jan-1849
transfer IDs: NSM151
Admission:
to Brixton Grove House
16-May-1851
transfer IDs: NSM087
Last recorded entry:
from Brixton Grove House to Anerley
14-Jul-1851
transfer IDs: NSM015
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 Emma 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.