Liverpool Orphanage 1917 - 1930's for a child from the Bootle area?

[Chris Martindale]

My Great Grandmother died at 107 Rice Lane in 1924 at the age of 30yrs. She was a Catholic and is buried at the Ford RC Cemetery. Her Husband was in the Merchant Navy and her three children (Girls) were placed into an orphanage run by nuns ‘Poor Sisters of Nazareth’.
I’m sorry to say that according to my mother the children suffered abuse at their hands. The location of the orphanage was Nazareth House, Crosby.

[garstonite]

Hi Chris and welcome to Rootschat - if your great grandmother was born in Liverpool you may find her Baptism record on here
http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/liverpoolrcbaptisms/

good luck 

[tom mix]

I have mentioned before on this site that I volunteer in the Palliative Care area. One of my latest family whom I am supporting, was in the Liverpool Seaman's  Orphanage Home and then transferred to the Royden property in Frankby on the Wirral.

The surname was Simeon and she had 2 sisters.

She had been born in Kirkdale.

Not a lot of information, I know, but as she is still alive, I am being careful. She would love to find any information regarding her history from around 1938- 1944.

Any suggestions, please.

Alan

[Gibel]

This is for Tom Mix, I posted this on your request on the Cheshire Board

On the site www.formerchildrenshomes.org.uk there there is some information on Torpenhow Open Air School that was opened by the Liverpool Chest Hospital. Torpenhow was at Frankby.

There is also mentioned some records that are held at Chester Archives and Local Studies

Managers' Minutes  SL318/1  Dec 1948 - Jun 1969
 
Log Book  SL318/4036/1  Nov 1926 - Jul 1988M

I hope this information helps your client. On the same website there is information about Open Air Schools

[tom mix]

Thanks Gibel for your help, but my friend tells me she was not at Torpenhow but at Hill Bark, a property owned by the Royden family.
 
The story goes that the government gave the owners the option of converting the property to house soldiers or children during the war. They chose the children and so that is where the children from the Liverpool Seaman's Home went.

Alan

[Gibel]

As the institution still exists albeit in a different form they no doubt still hold the records of past children and your client may be able to access her record

enquiries@rlsoi-uk.org