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Offline KatieVS1

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Liverpool homes for 'fallen' women 1900s
« on: Thursday 29 July 21 09:57 BST (UK) »
I've discovered that my Grandma spent time in both 14 Ullet Road (Liverpool Diocesan Maternity Home and Creche) and 17 Laurel Road (for 'Girls from Liverpool suffering from VD') in 1931 and 1932. During this time her baby was born and died in 107 Rice Lane (the Woulton Workhouse). Does anybody have any insight into these homes? They're quite far apart geographically, and a long way from the workhouse. I know they were Magdalen Homes. How long would she have lived in them? Does anybody know where I might find records? Thank you very much in advance.

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Re: Liverpool homes for 'fallen' women 1900s
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 29 July 21 10:56 BST (UK) »
Just a quick correction - 107 Rice Lane was Walton Workhouse.
Ullet Road is in the Serton Park area and Laurel Road in Kensington.

Starting in the southern part of Liverpool and working northwards.
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Re: Liverpool homes for 'fallen' women 1900s
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 29 July 21 18:51 BST (UK) »
Sorry that should read Sefton Park
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Re: Liverpool homes for 'fallen' women 1900s
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 29 July 21 19:29 BST (UK) »
According to this, Laurel Road seems to have been part of the hospital service
http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/MH4.shtml
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Re: Liverpool homes for 'fallen' women 1900s
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 07 August 21 15:51 BST (UK) »
  107 rice lane, Walton workhouse, was also a hospital. think one of the Beatles was born there.

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Re: Liverpool homes for 'fallen' women 1900s
« Reply #5 on: Friday 03 February 23 02:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi Katie

Back to your earlier notes - (on here) .. can you somehow check records of his actual 'birthplace'?(you've listed possible ''homes'').  That would be the best starting point - especially as you'd know your grandmother's full name.

'Salvation Army's 'family tracing unit' -on-line have access to ALL files (bmd/Hospitals/NHS/etc) 
The 'Salvo's have an office in London (poss more) for ''interviews''.  (They have a site on-line)

They helped find someone else's 'missing father' who had re-married and settled in Aus 1960's.
(They only charge if any fees incurred - 'free' for family members if on pensions)

(The Salvo's are 'worldwide')

Valerie
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Re: Liverpool homes for 'fallen' women 1900s
« Reply #6 on: Friday 03 February 23 19:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi Valerie

This was sadly a different baby. This was a baby girl. Miraculously I found a record of the baptism on Ancestry which gave me some valuable insight into my grandma's life at this time. We don't know what happened to her between this episode of her life in 1930/31 and when she married in 1939. Other than that in between this, she had another baby boy that she must have had adopted.

Thank you for the info about the Salvation Army Tracing site. I'll definitely look that up.

Katie
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