The Forgotten Poor

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The Forgotten Poor are very hard to find in any cemetery. The back cover illustrates some unmarked graves. The pauper's family did not own the grave: it had been paid for by the parish which continued to own it. It could not be marked and other paupers would also be placed in the same graves.


This booklet looks at the 6 individuals buried in the new cemetery at Frant Forests between 1875 and 1877. It highlights the roads which could lead to a pauper's grave. Not all paupers were born into poverty but would arrive there through the loss of a breadwinner, mental and other health issues and the frailty of old age.

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