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  1. #21
    sheppardsls
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    Default Swaffield Institution

    Thank you for replying to my last message!
    We are trying to "build - up" a Family History.
    We know that Hilda Painter (My Great Grandmother) was born in 1915 in Swaffield Institution. Her mother was sent there because of being unmarried. We also know that Hilda Painter was brought up by nun's in a convent. We are trying to establish if she was taken from Swaffield Institution as a baby because her mother returned to her home address after the birth.
    Hilda Painter never spoke about her childhood except to say the nuns were very strict and it was a very unpleasant upbringing. We only recently discovered that she was illegitamate and we are trying to establish just where she spent those early very unhappy years that she refused to ever speak about.
    The earliest History that she ever spoke about was going into Service as a Parlour Maid to an M.P. Harris in Tedworth Square?? 1929.
    If we are able to fill these early years we can then move onto trace other relatives.
    Thank you

  2. #22
    sheppardsls
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    Default Swaffield Road

    Thank you very much for this piece of information.
    Like you I live a long way from London so the advice was very helpful.
    On the birth certificate it states 77 Swaffield Road, would this have been part of the workhouse or seperate?
    Last edited by sheppardsls; 19-06-2006 at 3:25 PM.

  3. #23
    sheppardsls
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    Default Marymog

    Do you know at all if 77 Swaffield Road would have been part of the workhouse or would it have been seperate?
    Also, do you know if the orphanage was run by nuns?
    Last edited by sheppardsls; 19-06-2006 at 3:28 PM.

  4. #24
    marymog
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    hi Shepardsls,
    havent been on the board just lately. I can answer your questions.
    77 Swaffield road is on the wrong side to have been the workhouse.
    My sister lived at nr 13, that was at the bottom, opposite the workhouse.
    77 would have been up the hill, just a normal terrace house.
    The Orphanage when I was a kid was not run by nuns, it was a council run affair. An orphanage run by nuns would have a name to do with a saint or holy person.

    mm

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    As I said before I'm in the process of getting the LMA to check the workhouse records to see if my ancestor was there at all. This takes quite a while, and is expensive but I know of no other way to do it. If you're absolutely sure she wasn't there are the facts absolutely correct or was she there at a different time?
    Last edited by A Lee; 20-06-2006 at 3:40 PM.

  6. #26
    sheppardsls
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    Default marymog and A Lee

    Thank you very much for this extremley useful information.
    Would 77 Swaffield Road have been anywhere near the orphanage?

  7. #27
    marymog
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    The orphanage was on the corner of Swaffield Rd and Garrett Lane.

    the house next door to it up Swaffield Rd would have been number one
    so it was half of 77 houses away, as the road goes odd and even.
    the houses are terraced and quite close to each other.

    Have you seen the photo of the orphanage on the website??

    workhouses.org.uk

    the building is called "Swaffield Rd Intermediate schools"

    I do believe the photo is taken from Swaffield rd, but I cant swaer to it, I'm going on childhood memory here.

    mm

  8. #28
    sheppardsls
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    Default marymog

    Thank you very much for your last message. We are now going to try and find out who lived at 77 Swaffield Road!!

    Thank you very much for your help and time in giving me this information

  9. #29
    marymog
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    Well, I had it all wrong.

    Seemingly Swaffield Rd dosent run odd and even.

    I looked on the 1901 census and Swaffield Rd runs up and then down from 1 to 75, then it becomes the Porters Lodge of the Workhouse, and the Superintendants House Causal Ward,,(no number but must have been 77) Swaffield Rd. So that looks like the address of the Casual Ward is 77 Swaffield Rd.. Which means she was definately born in the Workhouse "casual ward."

    mm

    sorry for the bad memory

  10. #30
    sheppardsls
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    Default marymog

    Thank you very much for this fantastic information!! We are now going to check the admissions and discharges. I will let you know how we get on. You have been a great help!!!

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