Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in this Times piece.
Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the bailiffs from the door, the family endured a daily struggle to make ends meet. Even a child-sized wheelbarrow, made for the young George by his father, had to be sold; 60 years later he wrote that “I never forgot the boy that had my barrow”.