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Title: "Moore Child"
Post by: Jules48 on Sunday 30 September 12 16:06 BST (UK)
Hi All
Whilst researching I have come across the words "Moore Child" recorded against 2 children in the "relation to Head" column. Ancestry could not help and suggested it probably meant something to the enumerator! Web searching has not revealed anything. Has anyone else come across this term and discovered it's meaning?
Confused and hopeful
Regards
Jules
 ??? :)
Title: Re: "Moore Child"
Post by: clayton bradley on Sunday 30 September 12 16:09 BST (UK)
The only similar term I can think of is nurse child, but it doesn't look like moore, I'm afraid, claytonbradley
Title: Re: "Moore Child"
Post by: Jules48 on Sunday 30 September 12 16:17 BST (UK)
Hi
I have seen nurse child before, but this is quite clear. When websearching I half expected to find out that they were adopted children from an organisation such as Barnardos but could find nothing.
I await further posts with interest and thank you for your response
Regards
Jules
 :)
Title: Re: "Moore Child"
Post by: stanmapstone on Sunday 30 September 12 16:18 BST (UK)
Can you give the census reference or details so we can see the entry?
Stan
Title: Re: "Moore Child"
Post by: jim1 on Sunday 30 September 12 17:28 BST (UK)
Have you traced the children back to the parents?

jim
Title: Re: "Moore Child"
Post by: Pamela.Ebrey on Monday 01 October 12 13:24 BST (UK)
What is a nurse child?
Title: Re: "Moore Child"
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 01 October 12 13:26 BST (UK)
A nurse child is a young child being brought up in the household of someone other than the parents, normally for money, unless the couple are relatives kindly taking in a daughter's little error. Unmarried mothers, travellers like actors, people with demanding jobs in unhealthy areas (a pub say), or just parents of a child with health problems, might put a child out to nurse in a more country area, with a family.

It is worth bookmarking the RootsChat Reference Library
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/index.php

Nurse Child is at
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/reflib-lexicon.php?letter=N&lang=

Stan
Title: Re: "Moore Child"
Post by: stanmapstone on Tuesday 02 October 12 19:37 BST (UK)
Quote from: Jules48 on Sunday 30 September 12 16:17 BST (UK)
Hi
I await further posts with interest and thank you for your response
Regards
Jules
 :)

If at all possible could you give the census details?
Stan
Title: Re: "Moore Child"
Post by: Jules48 on Tuesday 02 October 12 20:10 BST (UK)
Sorry Stan, have added so many to my tree over the past weeks and now can't find my written notes as to who it was - doh!. Have to have an op tomorrow so will get back to researching once recovered
thanks for your interest and speak again soon
regards
Jules :)