The Norwood Schools were part of the same "Poor Law Union" as the Princes Road Workhouse and so it would be natural and presumably normal to transfer children from the workhouse to the school. See here:
www.
workhouses.org.uk/index.html?about/addresses.shtml - then click on Lambeth
Everything points to her being an orphan.
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23-02-2011, 3:23 PM #21malcolm99Guest
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23-02-2011, 3:29 PM #22RobinCGuest
Bearing in mind that Amelia was placed in the workhouse on the 4th October 1849, could one of these deaths be her mother?
Deaths Sep 1849
Cooksey Elizabeth Lambeth 4 463
Deaths Dec 1849
Cooksey Jane Lambeth 4 229
Cooksey Mary Lambeth 4 227
There is a death for a George Cooksey in the September qtr of 1849 but I'm not sure if he applies as Amelia didn't know her father's name at her marriage.
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23-02-2011, 3:35 PM #23
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23-02-2011, 3:41 PM #24RobinCGuest
I've just found a female A.C. who is 19 in the 1861 census:
Class: RG9; Piece: 334; Folio: 1 (there is no page listed as part of the reference but the A.C. is on page 5, second line from the top and is listed as a "Persistant" in terms of relation to the head of household).
Census reference copyright of TNA
I can't make out what sort of institution it is but it is in Southwark which would fit with Amelia's marriage a year later.
Richard Stratford was lodging with the Isaacs family in 1861:
Class: ; Piece: 342; Folio: 23; Page: 5
Census reference copyright of TNA
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23-02-2011, 4:04 PM #25malcolm99Guest
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23-02-2011, 4:04 PM #26RobinCGuest
I think we might be getting somewhere now!
The 19 year old A.C. was residing at an address on London Road, Southwark and Richard Stratford was lodging in East Street, Newington St Mary. I have just looked at a map of London from 1868 and to get from London Road to East Street, you would have to walk down to a junction with 5 exits, go straight over to the Walworth Road and keep walking where you would find East Street on the left hand side.
If A.C. turns out to be Amelia then I can see how they would have met.
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23-02-2011, 4:15 PM #27
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23-02-2011, 4:19 PM #28RobinCGuest
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23-02-2011, 4:32 PM #29CoromandelGuest
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23-02-2011, 4:39 PM #30
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