Notes

1	Accurate transcription? Photocopy is not clear.
2	Workhouse: Establishments where poor adults and families lived and worked: ‘children who ended up in the workhouse included “orphans, or deserted children, or bastards, or children of idiots…”’ (Roberts, David. 1963. How Cruel Was The Victorian Poor Law? Historical Journal, 6, 97-107). NB. The grandmother here listed at times spoke of her fear of ‘the workhouse’. Such establishments were operating into the twentieth century; the ethos of such places (their ‘value’ to the child therein) ‘to make them God-fearing, useful and healthy members of society’ (Poor Law Handbook of the Poor Law Officers’ Journal 1901) was much the same thinking and ethos of the Barnardo Homes.
3	Wetting the bed, often recorded as ‘Enuresis’. This would be a consistent and major problem during the early years of this new entrant to Barnardo’s care and indeed up to his early teen years (an indication of emotional insecurity – the child psychology books would state). NB. Reading ‘between the lines’, bed wetting was most likely the barring reason for this child being ‘not suitable for boarding-out’ at age ten (refer to records Barrows Green House 1 Jan. 1953).