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Does anyone have any information on this place as a maternity/children’s home back in the 40’s. Google only throws up forums/chats about it but nothing that it actually existed. Really need some help and info. Thanks.
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Welcome to rootschat.
Have you looked for the address on the 1939 register. Sorry I cannot give you any details as we are not allowed to do look ups on that dataset.
Rosie
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Welcome to Rootschat
It is called Trecony on the 1952 map https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/447294/130373/13/101329
Number 20 Bereweeke Road on the 1958-67 map.
Google Street View https://goo.gl/maps/Rs7izHfirsn7BqGaA
Apparently it was just a private house in 1939.
Stan
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There are a number of posts about Tregony on an Ancestry Message Board, https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/localities.britisles.england.ham.general/7633.2/mb.ashx
This says, incorrectly, that Tregony is Chantry Mead, which is the house next to Trecony.
This post on RootsChat https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=134282.0
Stan
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There are a few birth notices in local newspapers for children born at Tregony ( or Tregony Nursing Home) Bereweeke Road, Winchester in the mid 1940 s.
Cathy
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There are a number of posts about Tregony on an Ancestry Message Board, https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/localities.britisles.england.ham.general/7633.2/mb.ashx
This says, incorrectly, that Tregony is Chantry Mead, which is the house next to Trecony.
This post on RootsChat https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=134282.0
Thank you...I have seen this thread before but keep hitting a dead end regarding the nature of Tregony
Stan
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Welcome to rootschat.
Have you looked for the address on the 1939 register. Sorry I cannot give you any details as we are not allowed to do look ups on that dataset.
Rosie
Thank you Rose, I have looked up the address but keeping hitting a dead end regarding the place
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There are a few birth notices in local newspapers for children born at Tregony ( or Tregony Nursing Home) Bereweeke Road, Winchester in the mid 1940 s.
Cathy
Hi Cathy,, so it was definitely a nursing home? It's listed as my Mum's place of birth but all very odd that she was born there.
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Welcome to rootschat.
Have you looked for the address on the 1939 register. Sorry I cannot give you any details as we are not allowed to do look ups on that dataset.
Rosie
Thank you Rose, I have looked up the address but keeping hitting a dead end regarding the place
Tregony is listed in 1939, and is not a Nursing Home then.
Stan
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There were several births so it looks like it may have been a maternity home, a couple of the births seem to belong to forces families. I think "Nursing Home" would probably have had a different meaning as it does now ie a home for older people.
Only supposition though
Cathy :)
Added... just found this Portsmouth Evening News 4th Dec 1943
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The 1939 Telephone Directory shows a G.R. Footner at Tregony, Bereweeke Road, Winchester.
Also from the Sussex Agricultural Express 04 August 1944
Stan
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There were several births so it looks like it may have been a maternity home, a couple of the births seem to belong to forces families. I think "Nursing Home" would probably have had a different meaning as it does now ie a home for older people.
Only supposition though
Cathy :)
Added... just found this Portsmouth Evening News 4th Dec 1943
Wow thank you. I am from the portsmouth area and my mum was born in 1945. What archive was this found please?
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The 1939 Telephone Directory shows a G.R. Footner at Tregony, Bereweeke Road, Winchester.
Also from the Sussex Agricultural Express 04 August 1944
Stan
Thank you Stan. Are there any other birth announcements that you’ve come across?
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Newspaper archives can be found here, are you looking for a particular surname?
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1940-01-01/1949-12-31?basicsearch=tregony&somesearch=tregony&retrievecountrycounts=false&newspapertitle=portsmouth%2bevening%2bnews
or on Findmypast.
Cathy
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Newspaper archives can be found here, are you looking for a particular surname?
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1940-01-01/1949-12-31?basicsearch=tregony&somesearch=tregony&retrievecountrycounts=false&newspapertitle=portsmouth%2bevening%2bnews
Hi, yes, the surname Saunders if you come across anything x
or on Findmypast.
Cathy
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There are a few birth notices in local newspapers for children born at Tregony ( or Tregony Nursing Home) Bereweeke Road, Winchester in the mid 1940 s.
Cathy
Hi Cathy,, so it was definitely a nursing home? It's listed as my Mum's place of birth but all very odd that she was born there.
Speaking as someone who was born in a nursing home in the 1950s, I don't find it odd at all. It just meant that there were qualified nurses on the staff.
Carol
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It was a Maternity Home, not a Nursing Home. This is from the 1945 Annual Health Report of the County Medical Officer of Hampshire County Council. https://archive.org/details/b29409263
Stan
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There are a few birth notices in local newspapers for children born at Tregony ( or Tregony Nursing Home) Bereweeke Road, Winchester in the mid 1940 s.
Cathy
Hi Cathy,, so it was definitely a nursing home? It's listed as my Mum's place of birth but all very odd that she was born there.
Speaking as someone who was born in a nursing home in the 1950s, I don't find it odd at all. It just meant that there were qualified nurses on the staff.
Carol
It was odd for my family Carol as they weren’t local to the area and no means of transport back then.
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It was a Maternity Home, not a Nursing Home. This is from the 1945 Annual Health Report of the County Medical Officer of Hampshire County Council. https://archive.org/details/b29409263
Stan
Thanks Stan
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I was born in Tregony, Bereweeke Road, in April 1944. It's on my birth certificate. There is a military connection as my father was military and we were not allowed into the RVH, Netley and were sent to Tregony instead. Perhaps the diversion was due to the plans for D Day?
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My cousin was born at Tregony, Bereweeke Road, Winchester in August 1943. My uncle was serving in the Royal Marines and his wife had been in the ATS. I was always led to believe that it was a Maternity home used mainly by military personnel.