What is a nurse child?
Said child appears on a census with my 3g grandmother and her widowed daughter but is 10 years old on the census.
I have no knowledge of the widowed daughter's husband's name or if she had children etc. She was single on decade and widowed the next. |
I have seen one or two in a census - an unrelated child in a household - I thought it meant a foster child of some description.
The only other thing I thought was a young teenager living with a family to help with younger children, but 10 is too young for that, and I can't remember if I saw that sort of situation. The only one I can easily recall was a single child in an unrelated adult household. |
Yes, it means foster child.
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I have one in the 1851 census, the older siblings were with granny & grandad in Kent while the toddler was a nurse child with an unrelated a couple a few doors down the street from its aunt. Mother was pregnant with the next child. It look like a short term arrangement in my family.
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Don't quote me, but I think that those looking after nurse children were paid to do so.
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thank you all.
I wondered if the widowed daughter was being a wet nurse, which would have meant she had had children but being 10 years old was a bit old for that. A foster child works but doesn't help me find the husband or any children if there were any. |
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