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London and Middlesex / Re: St Teresas maternity Hosp
« on: Monday 20 May 19 14:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Nah Da
I can tell you that these people have details & birth certificates from St Teresa's Mother and baby home in Manchester for the time you're looking at. Please try as you might get some information.
http://www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk/search/adoptionrecords/organisationDetail.aspx?id=473

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London and Middlesex / Re: St Teresas maternity Hosp
« on: Monday 20 May 19 10:12 BST (UK)  »
 Please don't blame your mum if you find out you were born in Saint Theresa's, because she would really have had no say in what happened to you. The nuns there were terrible, barbaric and they used to take pleasure in punishing young girls who simply got pregnant at the wrong time.  As I mentioned in my post earlier, I don't know if she would have been telling you the truth but the chances are she was. It was very hard for women in there and sometimes their babies were taken very much against their will.  There was a nursery there, where all the children would play together whilst their mothers worked in the laundry. Sometimes when the mothers came back to see their children they'd gone - disappeared and they never saw them again. This I think is why the scandal came about babies being sold illegally.  I remember it happening to someone I was quite close to, her baby was taken illegally and we was sure then that he had been sold but nobody can prove anything just don't assume your mum was lying.

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London and Middlesex / Re: St Teresas maternity Hosp
« on: Monday 20 May 19 10:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi Nah da.
 I'm so sorry for your situation, I can't really say whether your mother would be telling the truth or not. What I can tell you is my experience of being in St. Theresa's mother and baby home back in the early 80s not too long after you were born. Whilst there I met many women from different denominations and different countries but quite a lot from Ireland. I was pregnant and left before giving birth but I know for a fact women gave birth there. I think there was a hospital wing in the home because  you could often hear the women in labour. I never thought too much about it then, but looking back not too many of those babies ever ended up back in the care of their mothers. I don't know what happened to them,  some people have spoken about mass graves in the ground of the home and some have said that the babies were sold but I don't know which is true because I was only very young then and didn't really have much experience of the horrors that went on in these places.  They were very disciplined though, and being an unmarried mother was considered to be a sin. I've seen so many terrible things in this place, we were all made to wash the habits and other clothes of the nuns and it didn't matter whether you were sick, in labour or exhausted you still had to do it and those places were boiling hot. Maybe your mum was telling you the truth but thank goodness you're alive and well if she did have you there. please let me know how you get on and if I can be of any further help please contact me. Julie

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Lancashire / Re: single mothers home run by nuns
« on: Saturday 18 May 19 19:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi if you're still looking for records from this home in the 1940s you might want to try here.

http://www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk/search/adoptionrecords/organisationDetail.aspx?id=473

I believe they have records from this home.
Julie

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Family History Beginners Board / Muriel Callaghan Stocks Lane Hairdresser Stalybridge
« on: Saturday 19 January 19 18:32 GMT (UK)  »
Around 6 years ago I started to do my family tree. I came across the name Muriel Ashton (later Callaghan) Muriel was my dad's elder sister although she was never mentioned during my childhood. When asked, my dad admitted he did have an older sister but she simply disappeared when he was about 6yrs old. Muriel was born in 1930 in Millbrook Cheshire. My dad was born in 1936 & 2 half brothers Kevin (1939) & Edward (1947)
Kevin & Edward both deceased never knew Muriel existed. Through research I found Muriel was raised with a different family & my dad never saw her again. My dad married Joe Callaghan a gentlemans hairdresser from stalybridge & she also became a hairdresser. Muriel worked from Ho E in Stocks Lane. My dad is now 83 and would love to see a picture of his sister before it's too late. If anyone has any pictures of Muriel please could you let me know.

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Lancashire / Re: single mothers home run by nuns
« on: Friday 18 January 19 17:41 GMT (UK)  »
When I was resident at St. Teresa's in the early 80s there were lots of Irish girls there. I was only there for 6 months but it was too long. Some girls gave birth in the home, you could hear them but what happened to the babies I don't know. All I know is that some had a short time with their babies in the nursery, but some never got to be with theirs. Whether you had time with your babies or not, you were made to take care of other people's children in the nursery. Even in the 80s the nuns were barbaric.

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Lancashire / Re: single mothers home run by nuns
« on: Friday 18 January 19 17:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I don't know if I can be of help but I was in this particular mother & baby home in the early 80s whilst pregnant with my daughter. It was one of the Magdelene houses so not a nice place to be even then.

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