I am still researching my 2x great-grandmother.
Ann Norah O'Brien
BIRTH ABT 1860 • St Pancras, Middlesex, England
DEATH 16 JAN 1923 • Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
She had 5 illegitimate children. I ordered all of their birth certificates.
Her eldest son was born in the Bristol Workhouse. She was working as a domestic servant and became pregnant so then she went to the workhouse.
Within a very short period of time (about 2 years) she moved from Bristol to Stroud and appeared to have started a new life. She became a charwoman, a shopkeeper, a hawker and then a housekeeper of no profession.
Her children are spaced about 2 years apart nearly in sequence which would seem like she was in a relationship.
How would it have been possible for her to leave the workhouse so quickly with a young baby and become a charwoman/shopkeeper?
She was working as a domestic servant at 10 St James Parade Bristol in 1894. I found that dwelling in the 1891 census and she wasn't there. What kind of dwelling was this?
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/6598/GLSRG12_1961_1963-0565?pid=24644742&backurl
I have posted about her before: