private adoption Surrey 1936

[Briagh]

I am trying to follow up a private adoption of a baby born in Lindsay house East Mosely in 1936. The adoptive parents a took the baby to Hatfield where they lived to register the adoption via Hatfield Juvenile court. It would seem that the property in East Mosely wasn't a maternity hospital and the baby was kept in care in a children's home or hospital where there were several sick babies from poor backgrounds although this baby was very small it survived and thrived after adoption.The baby was born in june 1936 and 'found' in January 1937 in this baby home/hospital but no records exist of this place although the name of baby and mother are known. baby was given a full birth certificate at adoption, no father's name. but regarding the private adoption a reference was made to railway workers. An assumption being made that this was the source of the 'private' aspect of the adoption. The baby now an 83 year old adult is keen to find out more about those missing months between birth and adoption. I am wondering if anyone would know or have heard of a range of facilities such as these for unwed mothers in 1936.I have joined the Surrey national archives site but it is having problems today so I thought I would try my luck on here. Previous requests/replies have been very helpful and I would like to say Thank you for all your help.

[Dundee]

There are a few places listed here, but you would need to do some research to see if they were operating and/or taking in babies during your time of interest.

http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/Surrey.shtml

Debra 

[rosie99]

Have you seen this picture showing a house similar to Lindsey House, Matham Road, East Molesey
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01o09/

The pictures do keep changing so you may need to wait

ADDED That site states the house was demolished but other sites say it is still standing 

[stanmapstone]

From the Surrey Advertiser - Saturday 11 July 1931

Stan

[stanmapstone]

Street view of Lindsey House,  10 Matham Road (the address for the Nursing Home in 1939)
https://goo.gl/maps/U24Y122vJ8qFAgxL6

Stan

[Briagh]

Thank you every one especially Stan for the advert. I now need to try and find out where mothers would take their babies for fostering from here. Lots of possibilities in the list. Briagh.

[Sue Linfield]

Hi, my husband has an aunt who was adopted in as a baby in 1936 from the Surrey area not sure where though, her mother(hubby's grandmother) went somewhere until she gave birth, was gone for ages so the family say, we were wondering if the birth name Patricia Davis means anything to you or the birth date of sept 14th/15th, thankyou x