Hi all,
Im just wondering if anyone could shine a light on another problem Im having. My G Grandmother was born in Dublin, the eldest of 3 and in 1911 was 8 years old. However on the census she is not with her mother and sisters she is with a farming family in Galway. Her father had abandonned her mother a couple of years earlier but she has the two younger girls with her in Dublin.
The farming family have no connection to my GGrandmothers family (that I have found yet) so I'm a little bit in the dark as to why a child would be sent away at that age. She came back to Dublin a year or so later but never mentioned her time in Galway.
Anyone any ideas why this would have happened? I played with the idea that her mother couldnt cope but then surely she would have needed her to help with the two younger ones.
