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Posted by dawns63 (U2026872) on Thursday, 27th October 2005
On the 1901 census my husbands grandfather is recorded as being a nurse child. He is not recorded in the same house as his mother. Would somebody be kind enough to let me know what a Nurse child is.
What ever the reason, mother unwell or unable to breast feed etc., the child is passed to another, normally a female family member to 'nurse' the child.
Nursing could also be just giving the child somewhere to live if a member of a large family.
Regards
Spike
A 'nurse child' or 'wet nurse' is usually used to describe a female within the home, used to feed the child when or if the mother could not.
In Victorian times a Nurse Child was often our equivalent of Foster Child. Frequently they are of an age well past weaning - sometimes 8 or 9 years old.
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