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Title: boys orphanage in or around llandulas
Post by: TaylorPearson on Thursday 29 November 12 05:41 GMT (UK)
Hello All,  when my dads father died, dad and a younger brother were sent to Llandulas to live with an uncle by marriage, Daniel Cashman, a station master.  That would have been around 1913.  They were not there for long before they were sent to an orphanage.  I know that it was run by the nuns, but not much more than that.  I have seen some info about St. Clare's, but that seems to have been for girls.  Can anyone suggest a name for a place for boys?  Dad and his brother were likely around 6 & 4 in 1913, so it would have been a home for young boys.  Thanks.
Title: Re: boys orphanage in or around llandulas
Post by: nibbs on Thursday 29 November 12 18:40 GMT (UK)
Hi
    If you mean st Claire's in pantasaph flintshire that was for boys and girls


                             Wendy
Title: Re: boys orphanage in or around llandulas
Post by: despair on Thursday 29 November 12 20:23 GMT (UK)
The following suggests there was a National Childrens Home and Orphanage in Colwyn Bay in 1927 at least(Folder 20),but I don't know when it opened.

http://cooper.libguides.com/content.php?pid=165775&sid=1398176

Regards
Roger
Title: Re: boys orphanage in or around llandulas
Post by: TaylorPearson on Thursday 29 November 12 22:13 GMT (UK)
Hi Nibbs, thanks for that, as all I have seen has been reference to girls, so I was unsure if it housed both.  Seems there has been more published about girls in the home.

Thanks, despair, I will check that one out too.