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The Common Room / Re: Looking for a birth possibly 1905
« on: Wednesday 21 June 23 08:48 BST (UK) »
This was from the archives…….
In the volume reference HSS8/16/1 (an indexed admissions register to children cared for by the Watford Union Children’s Homes)
Admitted: 11 March 1915, Cyril Lewis (date of birth 16/2/1905)
Status: orphan
Left on 14 May 1919, “To Mr N Maddison, North Kilworth Mill near Rugby”
No other information about Cyril was seen in this register. As a child in the care of the Watford Union Board of Guardians, he could have been in any children’s home in the area which was administered by the Union. Remarks against other children show that they were sometimes sent to foster homes ( “boarded out”), to other charities (eg, Dr Barnado’s, from where they were often sent abroad as farm labourers),and girls were sent into domestic service as maids. Some children were sent far away, and there is no evidence surviving to show what governed the different destinations of these young people.
In the volume reference HSS8/16/1 (an indexed admissions register to children cared for by the Watford Union Children’s Homes)
Admitted: 11 March 1915, Cyril Lewis (date of birth 16/2/1905)
Status: orphan
Left on 14 May 1919, “To Mr N Maddison, North Kilworth Mill near Rugby”
No other information about Cyril was seen in this register. As a child in the care of the Watford Union Board of Guardians, he could have been in any children’s home in the area which was administered by the Union. Remarks against other children show that they were sometimes sent to foster homes ( “boarded out”), to other charities (eg, Dr Barnado’s, from where they were often sent abroad as farm labourers),and girls were sent into domestic service as maids. Some children were sent far away, and there is no evidence surviving to show what governed the different destinations of these young people.