Good morning all,
I wonder if anyone has access to be able to look up the admissions registers for Swinton Industrial school for me please?
My father in law and three brothers were missing from the 1921 census at home with their mother and have trawled the returns to find them with no luck. But a dear friend yesterday looks like she may have found the boys at Swinton Industrial School _
Eliza* Brown is listed as female. BUT and a big but is that he was also baptised as Eliza in 1913 when he was was born, (7y 8m)
Richard Brown born 29 January 1912 my FIL (10y 5m)
Albert Brown MAR q 1909 (11 y 8m)
and finally James Brown born in 1916 who was not at the institution
Their father sadly died in 1917 of pneumonia after having been rejected by the army due to epilepsy brought on by a works accident 4 years previously.
Their mother remarried in 1918 to Bertram READ but he is also not at home in 1921 but visiting someone in Nottingham.
Alice is at 18 Whyatt Street Bradford Manchester. She is a charwoman at the Grey Mare Hotel and listed as married.
The family story (farfetched by any stretch of the imagination) was that the boys ran away from home and became boy soldiers. One boy stayed in the USA and never married. That part is true because hiss effects were sent to my FIL when he died in the 1960s.
If anybody has access to the admission records to the school and could look to see if the mother of these boys was listed as either Alice Brown or Alice Read and the address of Whyatt Street Bradford. I would be so grateful
kind regards
Anonemouse
