Children's home Windsor

[Southwinds]

I'm trying to trace my mother in laws line and birth cert  and we have very little.
She was brought up in a children's home in Windsor I was hoping sombody may know it's name and where I can access records .. It's possibly a catholic home .
Margaret Mary( Peggy) Mc Grath DOB 12/12/14 believed born in Ireland.

[CaroleW]

Is any fathers name shown on her marriage cert?

These birth entries are from Family Search - births in December are often only registered after Christmas so can fall into the March qtr of 1915

Margaret Mary Mcgrath
Oct - Dec 1914
Dungarvan, Ireland
Volume Number    4
Page Number    454

Margaret Mary Mcgrath
Oct - Dec 1914
Rathdrum, Ireland
Volume Number    2
Page Number    813

Margaret Mary Mcgrath
Jan - Mar 1915
Dublin South, Ireland
Volume Number    2
Page Number    645

[Southwinds]

Is any fathers name shown on her marriage cert?

These birth entries are from Family Search - births in December are often only registered after Christmas so can fall into the March qtr of 1915

Margaret Mary Mcgrath
Oct - Dec 1914
Dungarvan, Ireland
Volume Number    4
Page Number    454

Margaret Mary Mcgrath
Oct - Dec 1914
Rathdrum, Ireland
Volume Number    2
Page Number    813

Margaret Mary Mcgrath
Jan - Mar 1915
Dublin South, Ireland
Volume Number    2
Page Number    645

Thank you he is Edward Mc Grath...
We assume her parents were married when she was born

[nanny jan]

I'm trying to trace my mother in laws line and birth cert  and we have very little.
She was brought up in a children's home in Windsor I was hoping sombody may know it's name and where I can access records .. It's possibly a catholic home .
Margaret Mary( Peggy) Mc Grath DOB 12/12/14 believed born in Ireland.

Do you mean Windsor, Berkshire?

The record office might be able to help regarding the home:

http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/search-archives/

[Southwinds]

I'm trying to trace my mother in laws line and birth cert  and we have very little.
She was brought up in a children's home in Windsor I was hoping sombody may know it's name and where I can access records .. It's possibly a catholic home .
Margaret Mary( Peggy) Mc Grath DOB 12/12/14 believed born in Ireland.

Do you mean Windsor, Berkshire?

Yes... Senior moment thank you ....I should stay of the web late at night .

Thanks

The record office might be able to help regarding the home:

http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/search-archives/

[aghadowey]

To prevent any more duplication here's a link to the topic on Kerry board-
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=763758.msg6154485#msg6154485

[KGarrad]

Try www.childrenshomes.org.
Here's the page for Windsor, Berkshire: http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/Berkshire.shtml
with some extra information on the associated Workhouses website http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Windsor/#Homes

Ignoring Boys homes, the list is:

Berkshire Council, Burnell House Hostel, 27 Bolton Avenue, Windsor  (MB/CC)
St Michael's, 2 Dorset Road, Windsor (MB)
Princess Christian's Nursery, 22/24 Kings Road, Windsor (WS)
Windsor Refuge, Cambridge Villa, Dorset Road, Windsor (MH)
Wellesley Home Refuge, Clewer, Windsor (MH)
HRH Princess Christian's Training College & Infant Nursery, Clewer Hill House, Clewer Hill Road, Windsor (WS)
House of Mercy, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor (MH)
St John's Home, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor
St John's Training Home, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor
Windsor Refuge, St Michael's, Dorset Road, Windsor (MH)
Wellesley House, Vansittart Road, Windsor
Windsor Shelter, Winton Cottage, 92 Alma Road, Windsor (MH)
New Lodge, Drift Road, Winkfield, Windsor Forest (DB)

Where MH = Magdalen Homes, MB = Mother/Babies, DB = Barnardo's, WS = Waifs and Strays / Children's Society and CC = County Council

[CarolA3]

She was brought up in a children's home in Windsor I was hoping sombody may know it's name and where I can access records .. It's possibly a catholic home .

House of Mercy, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor (MH)
St John's Home, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor
St John's Training Home, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor
Where MH = Magdalen Homes

Did she ever say anything about nuns running the home?

The establishment(s) in Hatch Lane belonged to the Community of St John the Baptist, otherwise known as the Clewer Sisters.  They were nuns and wore the traditional full-length black habit, but were an Anglican community and not part of the Roman Catholic church.  (I only know this because my great-aunt was a Sister there and would visit us every year when she was 'on leave'.)

Carol

[Southwinds]

She was brought up in a children's home in Windsor I was hoping sombody may know it's name and where I can access records .. It's possibly a catholic home .

House of Mercy, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor (MH)
St John's Home, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor
St John's Training Home, Hatch Lane, Clewer, Windsor
Where MH = Magdalen Homes

Did she ever say anything about nuns running the home?

The establishment(s) in Hatch Lane belonged to the Community of St John the Baptist, otherwise known as the Clewer Sisters.  They were nuns and wore the traditional full-length black habit, but were an Anglican community and not part of the Roman Catholic church.  (I only know this because my great-aunt was a Sister there and would visit us every year when she was 'on leave'.)

Carol

Thank you ....