Red House, Inveresk

[Waiwera]

I have 2 young relatives John Stanners and Richard Fyfe listed as living at Red House in the 1880s with many other boys. Is it a place of correction or orphanage?

Thanks

Waiwera

[danuslave]

Hi Waiwera & welcome to RootsChat

Have you seen this?

www.ancestor.abel.co.uk/inv/houses.html

Linda

[KirstyG]

I believe itmay have been a Boarding School at one time.

http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/corstorphine/MusselburghY.html


It is listed as an Industrial School or Home for Destitute Boys:

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/53764/details/musselburgh+95+millhill+red+house/


Kirsty

[Waiwera]

Thank you Linda and Kirsty

That sounds about right as a place for destitute boys  as  both boys were in poor situations at home. The photo of the building was excellent

Thank you

Waiwera

[Jim I]

I remember as a kid in the 1950's if I misbehaved my Dad threatened to send me to the Red House.  I didn't know what it was but I soon started to behave again!

[vdp]

Red House School. Musselburgh was a residential school for children of impoverished families , apparently anywhere in Scotland.   The qualification for entry must have been flexible as I had a relative there whose father was employed and whose mother was not dependent on Parish relief.
I have a good deal of basic information (legal stuff) about the school and its origins.   Closed now.   My relative was a pupil there from age 11 or so until 17.  Pupils all recorded individually on census records
It had a good reputation as an educational establishment.
Certainly not a workhouse or industrial school so far as I can make out.
My source was Haddington Library local history section.

[Waiwera]

Thank you for that information. I wondered about children from outside Midlothian being sent to the Red House as one of the boys was from Linlithgow, West Lothian and the other Duddingston, Midlothian Unfortunately I have not had much luck tracing them in later years

Thank you,

Waiwera

[Derek Connell]

it became a mixed childrens home in 1931 ran from the red house trust and closed in 1980

[Alam Navsa]

I was o e of the residents of that home assuming it's the one in Musselburgh, from 1974 to 1977, and it was an all boys home till it closed in 1980