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Wow, thanks Choccy

How sad, the little b#gger!

Flip - sorry, my mistake, he was discharged in 1874, not 1878. Have edited my posting.

So although the regiment is wrong it certainly looks like him - what a sad life!

Thanks Choccy and everyone, for your help

Brilliant

Are you going to update the workhouse tour guides Gins - just to show them what a miserable failure the system was?

Flip

On the guided tour by the National Trust, they told us that the workhouse was meant to be 'harsh' not cruel.

There had been previous parish support that led to paupers being too happy and they wanted to stay in the institution as it was comfortable

I think it was John Thomas Becher that introduced the new style of a workhouse in Southwell

Not nice places but a place where they could survive. We were shown how fine the stones had to be crushed to....they had to fit through a colander !

It was the only place in 1828c for children to get an education, small comfort me thinks

Edit:

The staff comprised of only three or four people:

Master, matron, school teacher(s)

The staff were not allowed to leave the workhouse, unless special permission was given by the board of guardians

Yes, it was the only place for medical treatment or help back then.

Wonder if there are any reports of his d&d behaviour in Hartlepool to see if the death I posted could be him?

maybe


Doc True

DERBY BOROUGH POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY (TUESDAY).
DERBY BOROUGH POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY (TUESDAY).
Walker-lane. Defendant said, "Fits is what occasioned it, ani to and the older I get the worse they are."-Discbarged. Co id Joseph Disney, a man with a crutch, a pensioner of the Sb be 95th Regiment, was charged with being drunk in Tenant- Re be ?? on promising
03 February 1875 - Derby Mercury - Derby, Derbyshire, England