‘All the Persons in Grasmere with whom I have conversed approve entirely of the several situations in which the Orphans have been placed.' -Dorothy Wordsworth

Five of the children were settled in the close vicinity of Grasmere and their former home. Young John Green was taken care of by the shepherd John Fleming, a friend of his parents; Jane and baby Hannah went to live with a cousin of their father’s first wife; William and Thomas were settled with a neighbouring couple; and George, the only one to leave Grasmere, was taken in by his half-brother James in Ambleside.

Amos Green, Grasmere, undated, watercolour on paper.
The Wordsworth Trust, gift of the W.W. Spooner Charitable Trust, 2006