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I have a birth registered at this address and need to find out who was living at this address arround this time. Wondered if it could be a Nursing Home and hopefully find the proprieters names.
Have hit brick walls in family search and hoping this may unlock some clues .
Any advice welcomed.
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Electoral register for 10 Maxwell Road Winton should give the answer. Believe they are available at Bournemouth Library.l
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Thanks for that. I have been to check these in Bournemouth for other family members successfully but I live the opposite end of the country and was hoping there might be another way.
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Email them and tell them you live miles away. Some libraries provide a service for look ups,first 15 mins free,they'll do a couple of years,others charge or won't even do them at all.
Also the Hampshire Records office should hold them too.
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives
Failing those two suggestions,put a request look up on the Hants board asking if some kind soul would do a look up for you next time they're visiting the records or library.
Carol
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THANK YOU to all who replied.
I emailed the Library only yesterday and they have already emailed back with the information I needed.
Not solved my mystery! but another piece of the big puzzle.
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So was it a nursing home,or a private address?
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It was in fact a nursing home.
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Hi Shellmex I realise this could be a long shot as u posted some time ago but I was looking up this address also and came across ur post. My great uncle was born at 10Maxwell Rd in the mid 1930s and am wondering if u have any info u would be happy to share. At this time it was as I understand a unmarried mothers home. Thanks
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Hi Jae06
I was also looking up this address due to this being the address on my Grandmothers death certificate in 1930, she was only 20, single and had two weeks before given birth to my mother at Gaunts House. So it certainly makes sense that it was a place unmarried mothers could go.
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Hi Macapam,
Yes this is definitely what is was when my uncle was born (1926) as my Great Grandfather sent his daughter there to have my "uncle" so no one would know she was pregnant and not married. What a sad story about your Grandmother.
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I was born there in 1958 and as far as I know my parents were married. :o
Would be interested in any information on it though.
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Hello!
I have come across this thread while searching for the same information.
The address is listed on the birth certificate of my Grandmother. Her mother was an unmarried mother, father unknown. On looking at 1939 records, a resident there was called Doris Jones, who is listed as a certified midwife.
Ironically, my grandmother's grandmother was also an unmarried mother, who was born at 6 Charminster Road, Bournemouth. Records show that this was a girls refuge.
My Grandmother is now 95 (almost) and I would love to put some of the pieces of this puzzle together for her as she was adopted as a baby. Her bio mother went on to marry and have more children, who thankfully my grandmother has contact with.
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I was born there in 1958
1958 Telephone Directory, Bournemouth Area
Stevens D, Sister, 10 Maxwell rd.....Winton 2373
On looking at 1939 records, a resident there was called Doris Jones, who is listed as a certified midwife.
1938 Telephone Directory, Bournemouth & Dorset
Gestingthorpe Nursing Home, 10 Maxwell rd Winton 2373
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Wow! So a good chance that I was delivered by Sister Stevens? Thanks jonw65
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https://imgur.com/a/Cq2lAuj (https://imgur.com/a/Cq2lAuj)
Seems it was still Gestingthorpe Nursing Home in 1958. Click link above.
I was born there in 1958
1958 Telephone Directory, Bournemouth Area
Stevens D, Sister, 10 Maxwell rd.....Winton 2373
On looking at 1939 records, a resident there was called Doris Jones, who is listed as a certified midwife.
1938 Telephone Directory, Bournemouth & Dorset
Gestingthorpe Nursing Home, 10 Maxwell rd Winton 2373
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Hi
Doris Jones at 10 Maxwell Road in the 1939 Register has two surname alterations, first to Stevens, then to Field (that second marriage was in Bournemouth in 1967)
So Doris Jones and Sister Stevens appear to be the same person!
In the Midwives Roll, 1958/9 (on ancestry), she is under the Jones name.
Doris Jones, Gestingthorpe Nursing Home, 10, Maxwell Road, Bournemouth, Hants.
Her date of enrolment was 26-11-32.
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Back to 1926
Western Gazette, 8 October 1926
Situations Vacant
GIRL (young) Required for Nursing Home. Good training. Salary given.—Apply Sister SHILCOCK, Guestingthorpe Nursing Home, Maxwell Road, Bournemouth.
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Midwives Roll, 1926
SHILCOCK, Cordelia, Gestingthorpe, Maxwell Road, Bournemouth.
Date of enrolment 7 May 1917.