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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Midlothian => Topic started by: Waiwera on Wednesday 20 January 10 07:31 GMT (UK)
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I have 2 young relatives John Stanners and Richard Fyfe listed as living at Red House in the 1880s with many other boys. Is it a place of correction or orphanage?
Thanks
Waiwera
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Hi Waiwera & welcome to RootsChat
Have you seen this?
www.ancestor.abel.co.uk/inv/houses.html
Linda
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I believe itmay have been a Boarding School at one time.
http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/corstorphine/MusselburghY.html
It is listed as an Industrial School or Home for Destitute Boys:
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/53764/details/musselburgh+95+millhill+red+house/
Kirsty
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Thank you Linda and Kirsty
That sounds about right as a place for destitute boys as both boys were in poor situations at home. The photo of the building was excellent
Thank you
Waiwera
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I remember as a kid in the 1950's if I misbehaved my Dad threatened to send me to the Red House. I didn't know what it was but I soon started to behave again!
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Red House School. Musselburgh was a residential school for children of impoverished families , apparently anywhere in Scotland. The qualification for entry must have been flexible as I had a relative there whose father was employed and whose mother was not dependent on Parish relief.
I have a good deal of basic information (legal stuff) about the school and its origins. Closed now. My relative was a pupil there from age 11 or so until 17. Pupils all recorded individually on census records
It had a good reputation as an educational establishment.
Certainly not a workhouse or industrial school so far as I can make out.
My source was Haddington Library local history section.
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Thank you for that information. I wondered about children from outside Midlothian being sent to the Red House as one of the boys was from Linlithgow, West Lothian and the other Duddingston, Midlothian Unfortunately I have not had much luck tracing them in later years
Thank you,
Waiwera
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it became a mixed childrens home in 1931 ran from the red house trust and closed in 1980
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I was o e of the residents of that home assuming it's the one in Musselburgh, from 1974 to 1977, and it was an all boys home till it closed in 1980