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« on: Saturday 18 September 10 17:56 BST (UK) »
I have only to-day joined this interesting forum. I visited Nazareth House, Hammesrsmith on a number of occasions during the war (WW2)and never knew why. I have now found that my mother was an inmate in 1911. I have established that her mother died in 1904 just after she was born. I assume that her father couldn't cope as they had about 7 children, and put her into Nazareth House. I have since found that my godmother and a very close friend were also ther in 1911 and they remained friends up to 1978. All 3 of them were trained at the convent as domestic servants and were put out to a well to-do family home in the area. I don't know at what age but they were there until about 1929 when my mother married. As far as I am aware the House still exists. When I went there it was a convent but had a full staff of lay people.