Henry Robert HAYLES

Henry Robert HAYLES was born in 1837 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at an unknown age. Additional notes we have for his are "deserted by parents".

His 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 Henry Robert HAYLES

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

brother: HAYLES Frederick Francis born 1847
brother: HAYLES George Augustus born 1840

Born: 1837
First recorded entry:
to Brixton Grove House
23-Nov-1849
transfer IDs: NSM123
Admission:
discharged from Brixton Grove House
28-Dec-1849 to father on quitting workhouse
transfer IDs: NSM123
Admission:
to Brixton Grove House
03-Jul-1850
transfer IDs: NSM096
Last recorded entry:
discharged from Brixton Grove House
17-Jul-1850 to Newcastle to parents
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 Henry Robert 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.