CK2010

Sarah carpenter was a child factory worker from Derbyshire, England. Her father died when she was only eight years old. Sarah and her family were taken to the bristol Workhouse. In the dead of night her brother was taken away with a cart load of children. They had no clue were he was for two years. After two years they heard that he was back in Derbyshire. they had to walk all the way to Derbyshire from Cressbrook Mill. She had to stay there until she was the age of 21. They got up at five in the morning, and stopped working at nine at night. Their food was usually oatcake boiled in a can with milk and water put into it. They got eight pence a year. The headmaster was named Thomas Birk. Most of the workers wished that he would die. when her brother was old enough to be set free, he came back and stole Sarah away.