Seeking Orphanage records for London 1945

[Lambden]

I am currently trying to find out where my family name came from, and also to find out more about my late fathers past.
He was found on the tenth of December 1945 in a telephone kiosk at the junction of Charlotte place and Bennett street aged about one month, given the name Victor Lambden. I believe there was a well known footballer around that time with the same name. What i really want to find out is who gave him the name, where did he end up after he was found as he was never adopted by a family.

On his birth certificate an H.G. Scarff of 2 Dovehouse Street Chelsea was in charge of the child. And the signature of the registrar is an H.J. Millichap and W.Pockney Dept Supt Registrar.

Thank you, any help or ideas will be greatly appreciated.

[lizdb]

That address seems to be a Care Home now

http://www.carehome.co.uk/carehome.cfm/searchazref/20001005THAA

http://www.housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-149672-thamesbrook-london-england.aspx

Still might be worth making contact to see if they have any knowledge of its previous use

[lizdb]

Aha

Read through this
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Chelsea/

Workhouse was in Arthur Street (now Dovehouse Street)

Council took it over in 1930

So it may have been a council run orphanage

[Treetotal]

It would be a good idea to look into newspaper reports at that time as it may well have made the news....Social Services may also be able to help as they may hold records for the time he was in their care


http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/?gclid={SI:gclid}&gclid=CPfm3u3G9bcCFefKtAod-T8AgQ
Carol

[Valda]

Hi

If your father was in care in a Middlesex or London County Council care home and not a privately run home managed by a charity then it is worth reading the information in the London Metropolitan Archives guide on how to proceed further with your enquiries. The MCC and LCC were responsible for children's care between 1930 and 1965. The individual London Boroughs took over this responsibility in 1965.

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/london-metropolitan-archives/Documents/visitor-information/2012-adoption-in-care-guidelines-for-enquirers.pdf


Regards

Valda

[dawnsh]

Hi Lambden

Welcome to Rootschat 

As a foundling has no known birthdate or name or parents, they are frequently named by the person who found them or by the hospital staff where they are taken, often given names relating to the place they were found or the time of year.

I have seen another foundling 'birth' certificate, he was found in a cinema and his first name was that of the chap who found him, the surname being the street the cinema was on.

Foundling birth entries after 1911 can be found in the GRO index and usually have a blank entry for the mothers maiden surname and sometimes the surname.

Dawn

[giblet]

Free BMD birth index

Births Dec 1945   (98%)
Lambden    Victor    Unknown    Pancras    ?   see J'46


Can someone help with the " see J'46" please as im unsure what it means.

[andycand]

Hi

J'46 refers to June Qtr 1946, it looks as if the birth was a late registration and not registered until the June Qtr 1946. It is included in the typed GRO Index for June Qtr 1946 and as a handwritten note in Dec 1945.

Andy

[giblet]

Hi

J'46 refers to June Qtr 1946, it looks as if the birth was a late registration and not registered until the June Qtr 1946. It is included in the typed GRO Index for June Qtr 1946 and as a handwritten note in Dec 1945.

Andy

Thank you Andy