| These images are from Ancestry.com showing Mary Avery with four of her young children in an English workhouse. Ten years earlier she and her husband Charles were together. Now she is in a workhouse and Charles is in Saginaw, Michigan, USA (1850 U.S. Census). Ten years later they are reunited and living in Huron County, Michigan, USA very near several of her siblings. All of the children listed in the 1871 census with her in the workhouse were listed in the 1880 U.S. census. I've posted a tract written by Charles Dickens that describes an 1850 English workhouse that may give a glimpse into the living conditions for Mary and her children during this desperate time. |
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