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Lancashire / Re: Springfield House, Cheadle
« on: Monday 14 May 12 12:26 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for all your suggestions. It is much appreciated. I would consider that area to be Stockport but I assume it came under Cheadle at that time?

Thanks again,
Liz

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Lancashire / Springfield House, Cheadle
« on: Friday 11 May 12 09:36 BST (UK)  »
Does anybody in the Cheadle area know where Springfield Lane was? I have found Springfield Road and am wondering if it was nearby? I am attempting to find out more about Springfield House, which in the 1891 census appeared to be a small school with around 30 inhabitants. It was run by a Percy and Mary Colles.

Thanks.

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Cheshire / Re: Castle Street, Stockport
« on: Friday 16 March 12 12:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Everyone,

Many thanks for the suggestions. I also wondered if it may be the case that she stayed with him in some sort of hospital attached to the workhouse. I have access to the british archive newspapers so will have a flick through them.

Thanks again,
Liz

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Cheshire / Re: Castle Street, Stockport
« on: Tuesday 13 March 12 10:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Tina,

Thanks for responding.
The names were Thomas Lamb and Mary Lamb. Both had the address as Castle Street but only Mary was recorded as an 'inmate' which seemed slightly odd. He died in 1839. By the 1841 census she was elsewhere in Stockport at a residential address.

Thanks

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Cheshire / Castle Street, Stockport
« on: Tuesday 13 March 12 09:38 GMT (UK)  »
Does anybody know of any hospitals/confinement homes on Castle Street, Stockport around the late 1830s? A recent death certificate gives the cause of death as consumption and the witness (his wife) has her address as Castle Street Stockport (inmate). I’m trying to find out where she might have been an inmate of and was wondering if it was some sort of isolation home for consumption (two of her children also died of the disease).

Any thoughts most welcome.
Thanks   

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Lancashire / Re: Quay Street, 1870s
« on: Wednesday 18 August 10 12:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Barbara,

Thanks for that information. I do indeed have Godfreys Map. If the layout was the same in 1894 as it was in 1870 then it looks like it was indeed next to the Opera House. If thats correct i guess it is where the NCP Car Park now is. Shame really.

Thanks again, you have no idea how much it has been bugging me!  :)
Liz

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Lancashire / Quay Street, 1870s
« on: Wednesday 18 August 10 10:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone can advise me. In a census lookup I came across the address of 16 Quay Street, Manchester. In 1871 this was a 'Boys Refuge'. The home closed in Autumn of that year after being open 18 months. I am trying to locate where the home was on Quay street and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. As far as I am aware there are no maps for 1871, the nearest i've got is 1894 which shows little land marks. Any advice in this area would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Liz 

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Lancashire / Re: Boys and Girls Refuges and Childrens Aid society.
« on: Wednesday 19 May 10 14:39 BST (UK)  »
I am quite happy to answer any enquiries related to the Manchester and Salford Boys and Girls Refuges and Homes or the Boys and Girls Welfare Society as we were later known. On a personal note I am also trying to dig up anything on the Shaw family. Mr Leonard Kilbee Shaw (born 1834 to Robert and Alicia Shaw in Ireland) was one of the co-founders of the charity but we have very little knowledge of him. I know he married Annie Hall in about 1866 in Macclesfield and they had a son, Robert Shaw in 1871. I have traced Robert up until the 1901 census age 30 but I can't find out anything about him after this. I think he'd died by the 1940's but how and when i'm not sure. I would be interested to know if he ever married and had children. If anybody knows anything about the family it would be greatly appreciated.

Liz

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Lancashire / Re: Boys and Girls Refuges and Childrens Aid society.
« on: Tuesday 18 May 10 12:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I've just come across this thread but i know it was from a few months ago now. My name is Liz Sykes and I became the Archivist at the Together Trust after Toby Davison left last year. I read the comments with some disappointment that you were not able to get through to me. We do indeed hold records on all of the children who were in our homes and we had several on Cheetham Hill. If you never managed to get contact with the Trust again please do so. We have an enquirys page that will go straight through to me. Manchester central library that hold our records are closed until mid june but I will have access again then. Thanks.

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