Mary Ann RUSHFORTH

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Mary Ann RUSHFORTH was born between 1841 and 1842 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 7.

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 Mary Ann RUSHFORTH

Mary Ann had a sibling, who would most likely have been admitted and discharged at the same time:

  • Outcome: Unknown - did they leave Tooting?
    Died: unknown

Workhouses and pauper farms

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