Distant connection in my tree - my gt gt uncle Charles Purvey and his wife had several children. All together in 1901.
In 1911, eldest daughter Mabel is a visitor in Glamorgan.
Daisy and Lily, the next two children, are in a Children's Home in Swindon.
The younger girls, Elsie and Ada, are boarding with an unrelated family.
The only son, another Charles, is in the workhouse.
I found both their parents had died and thought how sad the children had been split up.
But now I find, trawling newspapers in FindMyPast, that Charles was prosecuted for child neglect in 1906. His wife was to have been prosecuted too, but had died. The NSPCC inspector said he'd made 18 visits to the house over a year and found the children underweight and barely clothed. Poor things! Charles was sentenced to 4 months' hard labour.
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/records/...e&pageNumber=4