My family fostered a little girl whose mother died of TB
in Foxdale -- father working in mines who also died soon
of TB . She did have older siblings but not able to home
her. No more lodging money coming in but Ggran kept her
as her own.Child still used her own surname but was
shown on census 1901 as " adopted ". No official person
ever checked on her----known to be well cared for & attending school AND one less child to be taken to a poor house or orphanage AND no cost to parish.