Примери за foundling

• Besides, deformed and ailing children were cared for and homes for foundlings were established. 

• I am only a foundling who fell into kind hands. 

• I have a strong fatherly instinct and all the foundlings are foisted on me. 

• I was a foundling. 

• Then you do not think of putting her in a foundling hospital or a workhouse, nephew, as you proposed last night? said Mrs. Margaret, with a smile. 

• The foundlings may therefore have come from parishes containing wealthy individuals, but also a large degree of poverty and indigence.

• Given this problem, we do not feel confident making any claims about the historical trends in proportions of foundlings marrying.

• This sample is used to establish the backgrounds of foundlings, their geographic origins and their legitimacy status between 1741 and 1760.

• At that time, 152 girls and women - including 21 over age 60 - lived in the foundling home.

• What is challenged is the assertion that the foundlings were almost all the products of this new mode of behaviour.

• Initial investigations do not refute the possibility that the foundlings were predominately illegitimate.

• The secondary sample, introduced on page 13 and in note 34, consists of the 1,056 foundlings whose age information came from billets and notes (above).

• The female foundlings did not, however, all follow the same path in their transition to adulthood.

• The dowry played a crucial role in facilitating the marriage of female foundlings.

• In the 1820s, the foundling home recorded 121 marriages of its female foundlings (for whom a dowry was paid) and, in the 1830s, 244.

• The foundling homes saw themselves as the guardians of the female foundlings' honour.

• In the case of a foundling woman, however, no such restraint was to be found.$!

• Secondly, there was no family force to serve as a brake on the foundling's marriage.

• By contrast, the male foundlings were in a much less favourable position.

• This was the privileged path for those few foundlings who entered a religious order and lived the rest of their lives in convents.