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WORKHOUSE HERO
Thank you so much for Peter Higginbotham's feature on workhouse records in the February issue, which may help to provide some hitherto elusive details about a young man way back in my family tree.
All I know for certain about David Robert Davidson is that he was sent up from a London workhouse at a very tender age to the coal-mining village of Hartshead in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where he started work in the pit. Some years later, he married one of my great aunts, who had just been widowed and left with three little girls to bring up. He must have been a great stepfather to those girls because they never forgot his kindness in marrying their widowed mother, who was 10 years older than him.
Very shortly afterwards, like so many others, he perished in