Jane GOBBY

Jane GOBBY was born in 1839 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 9.

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 Jane GOBBY

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

brother: GOBBY George born 1841
sister: GOBBY Julia born 1843

Born: 1839
First recorded entry:
transfer from Clerkenwell Workhouse to Tooting
11-Sep-1848
Last recorded entry:
from Tooting to Clerkenwell Workhouse
15-Dec-1848
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 Jane 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.