Re: what does died -poor house mean
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what does died -poor house mean
5/18/99
Usually, this means that the person died a pauper.Poor houses (or could even be alms houses) were usuall places where people with no money or income lived (or sometimes worked for a pittance) and were sometimes but not always like an asylum. In Oakey cemetery, Qld, there are many people who were buriedfrom the old people's home or the hospital because they had no relatives.
My mother used to say her father would tell her that "she'd end up in the poor house if she didn't do her school work!"
Jan Veacock