1908 Perth State Home, any help please

[weeblether]

Hi, I have a family member who lived in Glasgow and also Paisley, Renfrewshire. In 1908 she was sent to State Home Perth, for three years for drunkenness. Her husband had died the previous year and her three children were sent to live with a relative. My questions are, Where was the State Home in Perth? Can I get records of inmates? Why would she have been sent so far from home? Would she have been sentenced by a court in Glasgow or Paisley? Hope some one can shed some light on this for me and show me how to get some more information. weeblether

[Isabel H]

There are newspaper references to a State Inebriates' Home at Perth Prison, so I would imagine that any records that exist might be with Perth Prison records at the national Records of Scotland.

[isobelw]

This is 1906, but sounds like a remarkably similar scenario.

[stanmapstone]

From the Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 30 April 1908

[weeblether]

Thank you all so much for your help.  I know she was definitely in Glasgow or Paisley at the time, so the 1906 one is plausible, I got the information from Paisley Poor Records 1908 for her children and it said she was in State home in Perth. Her name was Mary Murphy. So sad to imagine      but she remarried in 1916 and died in 1932 in Glasgow. I will also try the national records of Scotland.
Thanks again for your help, much appreciated. weeblether