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Lanarkshire / Re: The good shepherd convent- Glasgow
« on: Friday 25 August 23 13:42 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for the reply.  I had read this already.  Very informative, however I'm interested in the era after the children's home left the building.  Specifically 1950-1. 
What "organisation" took over?  All I can find is a reference to it being a working laundry, but nothing about pregnant women boarding there.

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Lanarkshire / Re: The good shepherd convent- Glasgow
« on: Friday 25 August 23 11:05 BST (UK)  »
I suppose just some background. 
I can't find any official info about the place in this era, and nothing about it being a mother and baby home... 
No one knows, including her twin sister, what happened to my gran between 1949 and 1961, only that she put here as her address when she gave birth to my mum. 
Just trying to put the pieces together.  Could she stay here without being pregnant, did she fall pregnant after moving in there or did she move there because she was pregnant?
We are still trying to trace my mothers paternal side, so we are hoping by putting together some of my grandmothers background, it may lead to some clues/evidence to Mr x. 
What was it like to live there?  Would they have been good to her.  It sounds like they may have been, but given the stories from other places, was she forced to give my mother up?  Etc., etc...  Just anything really. 

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Lanarkshire / Re: The good shepherd convent- Glasgow
« on: Monday 21 August 23 17:41 BST (UK)  »
Hello.  I know this post has been here for a while, but I am curious to know if you found anything?  My gran was there also when my mother was born.  My mother was then given (no.formal adoption) to a family.  I have traced my birth Gran but unfortunately she has passes on before tracing the family

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