<Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Rose Maylie (maternal aunt) Captain Fleming (maternal grandfather, deceased) Harry Maylie (maternal uncle by marriage) Mrs Leeford (step - mother, deceased) </Td> </Tr> <P> Oliver Twist is the title character and protagonist of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens . He was the first child protagonist in an English novel . </P> <P> Based in the 1820s, the orphan, young Oliver is born in a parish workhouse in an unnamed town . His unmarried mother dies during labour. Old Sally, who was present at the birth, takes from the dying woman a locket and ring . Mr Bumble, the Beadle, names the boy Oliver Twist . Oliver is sent to an orphanage, run by Mrs. Mann, until he is nine years old, when he is returned to the workhouse . </P> <P> The orphans at the workhouse are starving because of their cruel treatment . They cast lots to decide who will ask for more gruel for them all, and Oliver is chosen . At evening supper, once the gruel is dished out and eaten, Oliver goes to the master and makes his famous request, "Please Sir . I want some more". He is then branded a troublemaker and offered as an apprentice to anyone willing to take him, and he is eventually apprenticed to Sowerberry, the undertaker . Oliver fights with Noah Claypole, an older boy at the undertakers, because Noah mocked Oliver's dead mother . Oliver is then beaten for the offence, but he manages to escape and runs away to London . </P>

Who raised oliver twist until he was 9 years old