unknown DIAMOND

unknown DIAMOND was born between 1840 and 1841 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at about age 8. Additional notes we have for his are "mentioned in trial, mother a nurse at Holborn Union workhouse".

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 unknown DIAMOND

His mother was called Kezia.

Born: 1840-1841
First recorded entry:
transfer from Holborn St Andrew to Tooting
01-Jan-1848 date very approximate
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 unknown 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.