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Nazareth House
« on: Tuesday 13 January 09 01:15 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

I have just accessed the 1911 census to discover my Grandfather was an Inmate in Nazareth House, Prittlewell.  It looks like it may have been a children's home, his father had died the year before but the other four children are still at home and living with their mother in Poplar.  Anybody know what Nazareth House was?

Thanks in anticipation :)
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Re: Nazareth House
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 13 January 09 06:28 GMT (UK) »
If you google Nazareth House  Prittlewell there are quite a few references to it maybe it might help with your search.

Jean
Graham, Grundy, Wilson:- Birkenhead
Graham, Sharp, Hodgson, Sherwen:- Workington
Fulford,Braithwaite,Blanchard,Hackforth,Ward,White:- Lincolnshire
Seaby, Cockerill:- Northamptonshire.
Wiseman,Smith:- Warwickshire
Upton, Gentle:- Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire.
Wall, Curtis, Felts, Thoms:- Bedfordshire.
Davis, Smallman:- Shropshire.
Wilcox:- Worcestershire.
Young, Renwick:- Berwick upon Tweed.
Plante:- Stafford, Warwickshire.

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Re: Nazareth House
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 13 January 09 10:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

I tried that but it kept coming up with the sisters of Nazareth, Scotland.  I did find one reference and it appears that in 1901 it was a Home for the Aged, Poor and the Destitute.  Mind you it was the early hours of the morning so maybe I need to try again with a fresh head :)

If this was a children's home his behaviour now makes so much sense.  He had no sense of family and though he had many sisters only ever kept in touch with one of them.

Thanks xx
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Re: Nazareth House
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 13 January 09 11:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi,


You could contact Essex Records Office they might have information. Seems Nazareth House had alot of children there.  Know from the past my father sent a huge box of toys  to a Nazareth House this one was in Ireland. Just type in the google search nazareth house  prittlewell you should get a fair bit of information.

Jean
Graham, Grundy, Wilson:- Birkenhead
Graham, Sharp, Hodgson, Sherwen:- Workington
Fulford,Braithwaite,Blanchard,Hackforth,Ward,White:- Lincolnshire
Seaby, Cockerill:- Northamptonshire.
Wiseman,Smith:- Warwickshire
Upton, Gentle:- Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire.
Wall, Curtis, Felts, Thoms:- Bedfordshire.
Davis, Smallman:- Shropshire.
Wilcox:- Worcestershire.
Young, Renwick:- Berwick upon Tweed.
Plante:- Stafford, Warwickshire.

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Re: Nazareth House
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 13 January 09 11:13 GMT (UK) »
Cheers Jean.  Looks like they were run by the Sisters of Nazareth, this sure answers so many questions about him.  I never knew him.  He had a nervous breakdown and ran away leaving 6 children.  Had held down a pretty responsible & middle class job up to then, so he did well for a while then crashed.  Very sad story :(

LJ xx
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McSweeney (Cork, Ireland)
Hurley (Ireland)
Maligue (Ireland)
Monnington (Radnorshire)
Cotton (London)
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Hooley (Shardlow, Leics & Ohio USA)
King (Suffolk)
Coleman (Chippiing Norton)
Dickinson (Shoreditch)
Clark (Shioreditch)
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Re: Nazareth House
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 13 January 09 11:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi LJ,

l wish you luck in your search and hope not all is as sad for you.

Jean
Graham, Grundy, Wilson:- Birkenhead
Graham, Sharp, Hodgson, Sherwen:- Workington
Fulford,Braithwaite,Blanchard,Hackforth,Ward,White:- Lincolnshire
Seaby, Cockerill:- Northamptonshire.
Wiseman,Smith:- Warwickshire
Upton, Gentle:- Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire.
Wall, Curtis, Felts, Thoms:- Bedfordshire.
Davis, Smallman:- Shropshire.
Wilcox:- Worcestershire.
Young, Renwick:- Berwick upon Tweed.
Plante:- Stafford, Warwickshire.

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Re: Nazareth House
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 13 January 09 11:38 GMT (UK) »
Google Nazareth House London road Southend there's an article in the local paper. Southend also has a Museum that may have some history on this Orphanage.
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Re: Nazareth House
« Reply #7 on: Friday 16 January 09 05:52 GMT (UK) »
Hi LJ
Nazareth House was a very large building situated on the London Road at Southend. I'm not sure what it started off as, but in the 60's my Father used to work for a large bakery by the name of Garons. When he finished his round on a Friday afternoon, he used to call into Nazareth House and in his words
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The kids and the Nun's would all come out. I used to open the back doors of the van and they emptied it of all the cakes etc I had left.
They never had to pay for what was there. I suppose that was a big treat for them all.

Regards .. Lyn
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Bibbys, Smith, Webb, Buckley  of  Essex
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Pullen, Weedon & Skipps of Hackney and Essex.
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Re: Nazareth House
« Reply #8 on: Friday 16 January 09 19:35 GMT (UK) »
Here are some of them

http://www.nugentcare.org/index.php/children_carehomes/nazareth_house/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4796145.stm

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd080521/bowden-1.htm

They seem to have been all over the place, South Africa, Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland (quite awful cases there)

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