Olive ASHENDEN

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Olive ASHENDEN was born between 1842 and 1843 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 6. Additional notes we have for her are "parents in workhouse, father a labourer, in 1851 census, born in Bermondsey, in service in 1861, married 1868".

Her date of death is 25-Nov-1920 (aged about 78). The listed cause of death was senile decay.

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Fact file on Olive ASHENDEN

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

Born: 1842-1843
First recorded entry:
transfer from Southwark Christ Church to Tooting
08-Sep-1848 admitted 10 Aug, notice taken 19 Aug
transfer IDs: SCC039
Admission:
from Tooting to Southwark Christ Church
05-Oct-1848 to be passed home with parents
transfer IDs: SCC022
Admission:
from Tooting to Faversham
05-Dec-1848
transfer IDs: NSM144
Admission:
to Constance Road Workhouse
25-Oct-1920 brought by friends, senile decay
Last recorded entry:
died in Constance Road Workhouse
25-Nov-1920
Outcome: Died in institution
Died: 25-Nov-1920

Workhouses and pauper farms

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

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