Mission House - Bridge Rd Glebe

[meggles]

Hi - I have a few relatives living at Mission House Bridge Rd Glebe between about 1890 and 1907.
I would like to find more info on this 'Mission House' but my research skills  seem to be lacking- I can't find anything about this home at all on the internet.
I am thinking that it is a house for single pregnant women  - as the two women I am following  lived there before and after their pregnancy.
Does anyone out there have any info on this house....................
cheers
Meggles

[lyn22]

I had a quick look on Trove and I think it was called Sydney Female Mission Home Glebe Take care Lynette

[Jennaya]

I also looked on trove, didn't find this place but there was reference to another mission house being set up as accommodation for respectable men, not loafers and notoriously bad characters. it was set up by a church charity. So perhaps these mission houses were accommodation places for single people.

[cando]

http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/nsw/NE01266

Cando

[Neil Todd]

A little bit extra on Glebe.

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/65830/WalkTourPreservation.pdf

Neil

[meggles]

Wow that was quick and it gives me something to research.
I kept googling Mission House Glebe and was coming up with nothing - so thank you so much.


Neil thank you for the PDF on Glebe - I have a lot of relatives from this area so this is great info.
cheers
Meggles

[majm]

Sands Sydney Suburban, street by street for GLEBE
162 Bridge Road, GLEBE  Female Mission Home,  - matron Mrs Emily Hill.
162 Bridge Road GLEBE George Hill “The Willows”

(Spotted the above info while searching Glebe suburban directory for Meggles' Minnie Croft (wife of George Henry DAVIS, married Forest Lodge, 1907)


Cheers,  JM

[meggles]

thank you - so this is where Jessie M Chamberlain was living in 1905 and 1907 - when she had her first 2 children as a unwed mother
cheers
Meggles

[majm]

Female Mission HOME, Eliza Pottie sat on the first committee of the Sydney Female Mission Home.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pottie-eliza-13155   


http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13976399  SMH 11 May 1895.    Recently moved from Darlington House, Newtown Road to 59 Mount Vernon Street Forest Lodge. 

It is my understanding that the The Infants Home (Ashfield)  may well have been where some  arrangements were made to place babies with families. 

http://www.theinfantshome.org.au/about-us/history/
http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=433274  (33 boxes of material, you need formal permission for access)

May I suggest a read of the book, Grandeur and Grit : a history of Glebe (Max Solling).
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26559050?q&versionId=31985603   

Cheers,  JM