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Offline kathb

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‘Scattered Homes’
« on: Tuesday 28 August 18 17:09 BST (UK) »
Hello Rootschatters. I am hoping someone may be able to offer some assistance. In 1919 my mother was aged 4. Her mother had to take her and two of her siblings to the workhouse. Her husband had died some years previously and her eldest two boys who had been providing family income died. The last one died in the final wave of the pandemic flu epidemic.  I have found the record of them being ‘acccepted’ by the Birkenhead Workhouse (St Catherines). It states they were accepted and then sent separately to ‘Scattered Homes”. Does anyone have any advice on how I might find where these homes were? My mother related her experiences in this home and they sound like ‘Annie’ the musical. The family in this ‘foster home’ ate the potatoes and fed the peelings to the foster children. I am pleased to say that my mothers eldest sister secured accomodation and built furniture from orange boxes and got her younger siblings out of the care system. I think they were only in care for approximately 6 years. Any indication how I might find the address of these  Scattered Homes would be much appreciated. Thank you. Kathb
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Baker/Cheshire,Crewe/Somerset
Davies/Calvert/Cheshire, Birkenhead/Yorkshire, Bowes
Fitzsimmons/Cheshire, Birkenhead/Lancashire, Liverpool/Ireland
Lewis/Cheshire,Spurstow, Bunbury, Little Budworth, Helsby/Birkenhead
Mackay/Mckay Caithness
Anderson/, Caithness
Dunnet, Caithness
Mowat/ Caithness
Gunn/ Caithness
Smith/Caithness, Dunnet, Thurso, Castletown
Rosie/Caithness, Thurso
Sadlier Forster/Liverpool/Ireland, Cork

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Re: ‘Scattered Homes’
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 28 August 18 17:22 BST (UK) »
See under Scattered Homes at http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birkenhead/ which gives addresses

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Re: ‘Scattered Homes’
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 28 August 18 20:09 BST (UK) »
Thank you Stan, your help is much appreciated. I don’t know how I missed this information from Peter Higgingbothams excellent research/work. I will now see if the Wirral Archives have any records for these Scattered Homes. Thank You. Kathb.
Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Baker/Cheshire,Crewe/Somerset
Davies/Calvert/Cheshire, Birkenhead/Yorkshire, Bowes
Fitzsimmons/Cheshire, Birkenhead/Lancashire, Liverpool/Ireland
Lewis/Cheshire,Spurstow, Bunbury, Little Budworth, Helsby/Birkenhead
Mackay/Mckay Caithness
Anderson/, Caithness
Dunnet, Caithness
Mowat/ Caithness
Gunn/ Caithness
Smith/Caithness, Dunnet, Thurso, Castletown
Rosie/Caithness, Thurso
Sadlier Forster/Liverpool/Ireland, Cork