Where would Sister Winifred send unwed mother to in 1944 in Gateshead?

[Doreen Peacock]

Where would Sister Winifred/Vine St. Mission  Gateshead - send unmarried mother to, to give birth in  December 1944?  I was named after her, but name changed at adoption. I met biological mother in 1975 - now passed. I am wanting more information regarding details and circumstances given by her at time of my birth and trying to locate any records that may still be in storage. 

[Girl Guide]

Welcome to Rootschat 

Do you have the birth certificate that was done at the time of your birth before you were adopted?  If so what address does it give for the place of birth?

Perhaps you may like to look at this website to see if it can help you at all.

https://www.family-action.org.uk/our-voices/2022/02/09/finding-adoption-records-familyconnect/

You don't indicate whether you have your adoption records at all.  If you do are they of any help as to where the birth took place?

[Doreen Peacock]

Birth mother told me i was born at Eighton banks, and I thought she meant St. Faiths behind the Angel of the Norths Wing, but that was not a Mother and Baby home i believe until after I was born. Sister Winifred Laver  Methodist Deaconess,(whom I was named after) arranged her place in a M & B. home for Dec 1944. I'm looking for the records regarding health issues which may be recorded at my birth and that of Eliz. W. Shiel my mother who is now dead. Both of my children have lung problems, and I am concerned about grandchildren's health

[Dundee]

Your original birth certificate should show an address for where you were born.

Debra 

[Radcliff]

so were you E W S  at birth ?

[River Tyne Lass]

https://twarchives.org.uk/collection/user-guides-and-information

Welcome to RootsChat Doreen.

I wonder if it might be worth your looking at the baptism records for this Church?  Perhaps you may have been taken there for baptism and this may record the name of the Mother and baby home.

Tyne and Wear Archives will have the baptisms and they also hold some information on Children’s Homes in the area 1906 - 1949.  These come under the paupers records category on the link attached.   Do you think there may have been a chance you may have been placed in a home before adoption?  Only you would be able to request a search as the time frame is less than 100 years.

[Doreen Peacock]

Yes I     was   E.W.S.    AT BIRTH

[River Tyne Lass]

Have you applied for and received the original birth cert which was registered in the March quarter of 1945 - Gateshead Vol 10a Page 1185?  As others have mentioned this would record your place of birth.

[Doreen Peacock]

Thanks for the details. Very much appreciated.