Faversham boys' home

[lambster134]

Hello all,
I'm looking for a little local knowledge and hope someone can help. My father told how he was put into a boys' home or orphanage in Faversham after running away from home. I have no details other than that some/all of his teachers were Nuns. It would have been somewhere between 1925-32.
  If anyone has any suggestions, I would be most grateful.
  Jan

Norfolk: SELF/EVERETT/PEARSON/DAVEY/TRUDGILL
London: SELF/MULLINS

[hepburn]

Hi Jan
          Welcome to Rootschat, it wouldn't be Borstal would it..probably not, I'll carry on looking...

[lambster134]

Thanks for the welcome Oonagh.  (I have been lurking for a while...!)
I don't think it was any form of correction home. The story is that my father ran away to live on the streets of London where he contracted reumatic fever. While in hospital he refused to give his name or address because he didn't want to be returned to a violent home and after some months in hopsital was sent down to Kent. He told my mother it wasn't a Barnados home and that was it!
  But he was educated well and was quite religious when he came out (Anglican I'm pretty sure).
  Jan


Norfolk: SELF/EVERETT/PEARSON/DAVEY/TRUDGILL
London: SELF/MULLINS
Cornwall: TALLACK/TONKIN/STRIBLEY
Hampshire: TALLACK

[PassionPlay]

Welcome Lambster!

You could try an enquiry with the Faversham Society, there's a link on this page  http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=15817

My other thought was that there may have been a children's home attached to the local Workhouse, it may be worth exploring here http://www.workhouses.com/


Steph.

[lambster134]

Hi Steph,
Thanks - will give those a whirl!
J

[hepburn]

Sorry J,
           Ive googled all over the shop...I can't find a "Charitable" boys' school in Faversham..

[lambster134]

You and me both!
  I've gone round and round with this one. I just hoped that someone from the area might have recalled a school or home.
 Thanks for your help Oonagh
Janine

[Beakie]

Hi Lambster,

I don't know if this will help or not, however I have been looking through some very old postcards and found one of a large group of Serbian children together with staff photographed outside of the National Children's Home and Orphanage at Faversham.   It looks as if it would have been taken around 1920 - 1930.   This perhaps confirms that there was a Children's Home & Orphanage in Faversham at about that time.
Good luck with your search.
Beakie

[lambster134]

Hi Beakie,
  Many thanks for that! And I feel honoured you made your first post in reply to my query 

Lambster