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Re: Workhouse aliases
Posted by Member: Christine Wibberley
When: 20/07/2010 22:44:38
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What is anyone's 'real' name? People of course do change their names from time to time and I suspect the workhouse population were a strata of society where it happened quite often, in that it might be convenient to be called one name in one place and something else in another and sometimes to say that one was now known as Jones but had been known as Smith. Perhaps to escape the law, pretend one was someone else etc 'John Jones otherwise known as Smith' Your real name is what you are called, not what is down on a piece of paper. In response to: I've found several census records for a workhouse where the inmates are named as, for example, Bessie Smith (alias Barker). Does anybody know what this means? Why two names? Is Smith or Barker the real name?
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