Royal Cornwall Gazette, Thursday December 5, 1895

Queen’s Bounty for Triplets

The wife of a Denaby Main miner name Phipps, who recently gave birth to 3 children, all girls, has received the Queen’s bounty.

In August 1849 Queen Victoria, while on a visit to Ireland, established the practice of granting a sovereign, a one pound sterling coin, to the parents of triplets, one for each child. The bounty was “to enable the parents to meet the sudden expenses thrown upon them.” To qualify the births had to be alive and in wedlock, the parents British subjects. Until 1938 the parents had to be “in necessitous circumstances.”

Rose, Violet & Lily Phipps were born on 18^th November 1895. Rose and Violet survived and were included in the 1901 and 1911 censuses, living with their parents and 2 brothers and 2 sisters at Wood View, Denaby Main