North Rd wolverhampton - electoral register 1940 help please

[alveleyhistorian]

hi there, just a quick note wondering if some kind soul possibly have access to the 1940 electoral register for North Road Wolverhampton
i am interested in finding out about more about the occupiers of No 89

any help much appreciated

[Gail R]

Hello

I don't have access to the electoral register for 1940 but think that in 1947 a Dorothy Muriel Holford lived at that address.
This is the name given on my mum's birth certificate as her birth mothers name and address. If you know any more about the family at that address I would love to find out more about them.
Hope this information is some help,
Gail R

[linell]

There were no Electoral Rolls during WW2.  You should be ok for 1947, you could try emailing or phoning Wolverhampton Archives, they will tell you what years they hold there.  HTH from Linell.

[Lynn Fanthom]

I know these queries were posted 3 years ago but I have only just found them.  If you haven't found the answers already I hope I can help.  Nobody lived at this address (I too have this on my birth certificate) as it was Mrs. Legge's Memorial Home for unmarried mothers.  It was pulled down in 1960 and relocated to Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton.  It too was pulled down in 1975.  I hope I have been of some help.

Margaret

[cati]

A little more information about Mrs Legge's Memorial Home:  there is an article here which talks of the possibility of a booklet being produced about the home:

www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Letters/Wonderful-reaction-to-Wolverhampton-appeal-19062013.htm

The full name of the home was "The Mrs Legge Memorial Home For Unmarried Mothers Of Previously Good Character" - I know that the girls were very well looked after, as my grandfather, who was butcher in Wolverhampton, used to supply the home with meat, which was never 'cheap cuts'.  My grandmother was invited several times to a sort of Open Day at the Home, and always said how gentle the staff were, and how much they cared for the mothers and babies.

[Lynn Fanthom]

I know these queries were posted 3 years ago but I have only just found them.  If you haven't found the answers already I hope I can help.  Nobody lived at this address (I too have this on my birth certificate) as it was Mrs. Legge's Memorial Home for unmarried mothers.  It was pulled down in 1960 and relocated to Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton.  It too was pulled down in 1975.  I hope I have been of some help.

Margaret

[Lynn Fanthom]

does anybody with 89 north road Wolverhampton as their mothers address have an occupation listed.  if so I would like to know as mine stated as egg packer and tester at betton crossing market drayton.

margaret

[Lynn Fanthom]

does anyone have their birth mothers occupation listed on their birth certificate that has 89 north road Wolverhampton as her address only mine has egg packer and tester.
margaret

[alveleyhistorian]

I know these queries were posted 3 years ago but I have only just found them.  If you haven't found the answers already I hope I can help.  Nobody lived at this address (I too have this on my birth certificate) as it was Mrs. Legge's Memorial Home for unmarried mothers.  It was pulled down in 1960 and relocated to Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton.  It too was pulled down in 1975.  I hope I have been of some help.

Margaret

that is really helpful thank you very much.
Does anyone know much about the home...my granny would have only have been 16 when she went to stay there. Did they strongly encourage adoption ? In our case the baby went back to the family to be cared for, and my granny joined the land army..