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Offline MarMnkly

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Cardiff home for unmarried mothers
« on: Wednesday 22 July 09 18:04 BST (UK) »
Hello, a relative was born at 22, Gordon Road Cardiff in 1929. The family information is that his mother was sent to Cardiff to have him as she was unmarried. I am trying to work out if his mother went to stay with a relative, or if this address was a home for unmarried mothers?

Has anyone got any local knowledge that could help?

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Re: Cardiff home for unmarried mothers
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 18:54 BST (UK) »
I have been looking through google books and have just found a reference to another unrelated birth announcement in 1930 at a Nurse Lewis's Maternity Home in Gordon Road. The number of the house isn't mentioned, but this could be the same place?

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Re: Cardiff home for unmarried mothers
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 19:42 BST (UK) »
Hello again, I've managed to work this one out and have had it confirmed that 22-24 Gordon Road was a nursing/maternity home until the 1950's

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Massey, Munkley, Powell, Thompson, Thurkettle

Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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