Horatio FULLER

Horatio FULLER was born in 1839 and was admitted to the pauper farm in Tooting at an unknown age.

His date of death is Jan-1849 (aged about 10). The listed cause of death was cholera.

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Fact file on Horatio FULLER

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

sister: FULLER Mary Maria born 1839

Born: 1839
First recorded entry:
transfer from Tooting to Southwark Christ Church
04-Jan-1849
transfer IDs: NSM089
Admission:
from Tooting to Southwark Christ Church
04-Jan-1849
transfer IDs: SCC042, NSM089
Last recorded entry:
died in Southwark Christ Church
07-Jan-1849 died in workhouse
transfer IDs: NSM089
Outcome: Died in institution
Died: Jan-1849

Workhouses and pauper farms

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