"Children's Home, Sudbury" nr Wembley, I Think

[TimothBStard]

Hi, 

Has anyone come across a children's home in Sudbury, that would have taken in boys, and was in operation during the mid 1920s?

The local directories mention only a home for destitute girls.

I have got a query in with the local studies centres that cover that area, but no likely candidates yet.  Any ideas?


  Timoth,

[dawnsh]

Hi Timoth

Which 'local studies' are you waiting to hear from so we don't duplicate enquiries?

For info, there is a related topic here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,479969.0.html

and here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,480938.0.html

Dawn

[TimothBStard]

Hi Dawnsh, I was told that Sudbury was on the border of a few different areas now.  Harrow have found nothing and I am waiting to here from Brent and Ealing.  Again, I suspect that if records are at LMA I may come unstuck because I don't know which childrens home to look for.

[nancy drew]

hi, the only sudbury that i am aware off is in suffolk, i dont know if your info is entirely correct but if it is then this wont be of any use to you, there used to be a boys home in sudbury suffolk called crofton house that took in boys between 1920-1950s, might be worth contacting sudbury council to see if they can help ( or eliminate it).....      nancy

[nancy drew]

sorry my mistake there is a sudbury in derbyshire too,

[TimothBStard]

Thanks NancyDrew,
Apart from near Wembley, there are other, further-flung, Sudburys... as you say: Suffolk, Derbyshire and Staffs, I believe.  The Suffolk children's home turns out to have been a part of the local Union, but records have not survived   

I haven't yet contacted Derbyshire or Staffordshire, as I have no other clues suggesting that this particular part of ancestry ever strayed far from London...... But on the other hand.....  I have very few clues at all!