“Instead single parents indentured their children and many others came from the poorhouse and other asylums.”
“And the reality was, that without some kind of financial support, the widow and the children would end up in the poorhouse, and that was the basis for the legislation.”
“Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper.”
“After losing his fortune in the stock market crash, he had no choice but to accept his new reality and embrace his pauperdom.”
“In the volatile economic climate of Georgian Britain, even this slender lifeline might preserve a broken old redcoat from pauperdom or worse.”
“We and the Russians and the French, and the UN, and the Turks and the other Arabs, permitted millions of people to die or be reduced to misery and pauperdom.”