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Title: Mr Fegan's Homes!
Post by: alicook on Tuesday 11 November 08 07:28 GMT (UK)
Hi,

I have just found someone that was in a Fegan's Home and was sent to Canada.
Has anyone used these address's recently?

I have googled this and there are two address's one for London and the other Canada. Unfortunatley they don't seem to have email's or site's.

Mr. Fegan's Homes, Inc
160 St. James Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent TN1 2HE
England
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503 King George
Brantford, ON
N3T 5L8
Canada


Thanking you
Alison
Title: Re: Mr Fegan's Homes!
Post by: Janice M on Tuesday 11 November 08 17:08 GMT (UK)
The U.K. Address seems to be the correct one.

From Gruel to Gourmet
http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/watlingway99/home.html

Young Immigrants to Canada
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/fegan.html

Book
The Golden Bridge
http://www.rootschat.com/links/04s4/

Some books that may contain information
http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/home-children/resources/index.htm
Title: Re: Mr Fegan's Homes!
Post by: Janice M on Tuesday 11 November 08 17:11 GMT (UK)
The Canadian address has an email.
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/tracers.html

Title: Re: Mr Fegan's Homes!
Post by: alicook on Tuesday 11 November 08 23:52 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Janice M on Tuesday 11 November 08 17:11 GMT (UK)
The Canadian address has an email.
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/tracers.html




Thanks Janice I will look into them.

Alison
 :)

Title: Re: Mr Fegan's Homes!
Post by: Dabber on Thursday 25 February 10 19:05 GMT (UK)
 I have just joined RootsChat as a result of Googling 'Fegans' and seen that, a long time since ,you were looking for an email address for them.

I am also an ex Fegans boy (During & after the war).

If you are still looking for the info' then this may help:-
    info@fegans.org.uk   
 David Waller is the person to contact.

Hope this might be of some help.   
Title: Re: Mr Fegan's Homes!
Post by: alicook on Friday 26 February 10 01:55 GMT (UK)
Hi Dabber,

Thank you. I did manaage to find the address and contacted Mr Waller.

Cheers
Alison

Title: Re: Mr Fegan's Homes!
Post by: denise67 on Friday 01 June 12 00:03 BST (UK)
Hi my grandad  his number was 4672 name john Bridges & his brother Percy was at Stoney Stratford from 1930 to 1932 Mr Waller was great in finding my grandads documents we were surprised to see letters & other documents which helped us understand why he was there and what his life there was like. We also found out my grandad had stayed in contact with a Mr & Mrs Walmsley and a Mr Moffat there were also letters written to an uncle Bill from the home. In one of my grandads letters it mentions meeting up with a Piggy Middletone whilst he was in hospital Whilst serving in North Africa if anyones not sure about researching their relatives Fagan time please dont hestitate although its through sad circumstances that their placed there not all information is horrible if anyone remembers my grandad or his brother we would love to hear from you many thanks Denise67