Who is clever enough to answer this

[Sunnydays]

Hi every one, need some advice. If in 1928 a child was fostered out from a Convent would Social Services pay for the up keep of the child. The Convent was Holly Mount in Tottington.

Many thanks

[Little Nell]

Erm, not clever at all, but Social Services as such did not exist in 1928.  Poor Law authorities had their responsibilities transferred by the Local Government Act of 1929 to local councils.  But a convent would not have been under the control of the local council.  Did the convent also place children for adoptions?  maybe the Catholic Adoption society might be able to help you.

However, someone else posted this information on RootsChat a while back.  The records of Hollymount were transferred to:
The Catholic Children’s Rescue Society
390 Parrs Wood Road
Didsbury
Manchester M20 5NA

They also said that many children were placed by the Bury Guardians, presumably before 1929.

Good Luck

Nell

[Sunnydays]

Hi Nell

Thanks for the reply. I have contacted the C.C.R.S. and the only info is the day my mother went in and the day she left and this was in the year 1931 so do you think Bury Social Services would know anything!!!! Thanks very much for the reply.

Sunnydays

[Sunnydays]

Hi Nell

Did not add that the poor society did not put my mother into care her mother did.

Regards
SUNNYDAYS

[Little Nell]

If her mother put the daughter into care, I'm not sure if anyone other than the convent would necessarily have any records.  Social Services, as I said, before did not exist prior to the late 1940s.

Nell

[Sunnydays]

Hi Nell

Thanks for the reply and advice, the search goes on.

Sunnydays

[lizzey]

How old was she when she went in?

The convent would not have fostered anyone out. Unless recalled  by family or whichever society or organisation placed her, it would have been normal practice to stay there until working age (14).

[lizzey]

Hi again,

I've just noticed you are in Spain.

Were your Mother and Grandmother from Spain? Perhaps the dates are significant. 1928 being the date Franco was appointed and 1931 the beginning of the Second Republic. Holly Mount took in a number of children later in the 30s who were escaping the Civil War.

It's just a thought.

[Sunnydays]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. Its a very long story. Yes I do live in Spain now, this story was 1928 in Manchester where my mother was born. Mum was put into Holly Mount at six weeks old. In 1931 she was placed with a very strick Catholic family in Durham Mum was fostered not adopted hence my thought on being paid by social services to be fostered, but I think its possible she was placed through a Catholic church because the family who took her the Jenners Mrs Jenner cleaned the church in Durham.

Its been a 30 year search I have progressed a lot but not enough!!!!! still skeleton's in the cubhoard!!!!!

Kind Regards and thanks
Sunnydays