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St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« on: Friday 23 June 23 03:20 BST (UK) »
Hello there! Im looking for information on my grandmothers birth family. My grandmother was adopted at the age of 4. All I know is her mothers name is Agnes Stone, she worked at 10 Swan Cottages, Winchester, but lived at 6 Charminster Road around 1934..Would love any help at all? Very new to researching..
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Re: St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« Reply #1 on: Friday 23 June 23 10:37 BST (UK) »
If those addresses are from the birth certifciate, was one the place of birth and one the address of the informant?  The birth certificate will not say where someone worked (although if she is listed as a domestic servant the resident may also be where she worked).

6 Charminster Road was apparently the site of the "Bournemouth Refuge"
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Re: St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« Reply #2 on: Friday 23 June 23 10:39 BST (UK) »
Bournemouth Refuge ( 1896 ) , St. Thomas's Lodge , 6 Charminster Road , Bournemouth . Object . - A temporary refuge for girls from sin or temptation .

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Re: St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« Reply #3 on: Friday 23 June 23 11:19 BST (UK) »
New Milton Advertiser, 28 Jul 1934

The superintendent was a Miss E C Etheridge.

"Although the lodge was in Bournemouth, this district benefitted by its work, as it served the whole of the Christchurch Deanery. It had helped, and was still helping girls from New Milton. Donations, babies and children's clothes, as well as household provisions were urgently needed while subscriptions or even small sums were most welcome, as in the aggregate they amounted to a considerable sum". 


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Re: St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« Reply #4 on: Friday 23 June 23 15:11 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat  :D

You have not given us your grandmother's name and I don't know if you know her birth name and her adopted name.

There is a birth in Winchester in 1932 which could be your grandmother.  Is she still alive?

If she was adopted at the age of four and given a different surname, then looking for her on the 1939 would be pointless, unless you know her adopted surname.

Any idea of how old Agnes was when she gave birth to your grandmother?

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Re: St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 24 June 23 15:41 BST (UK) »
Thankyou all for your replies! I’ve attached the paper work I have, hoping this helps  :D
I think I have the adoption request/court order too I will post when I find it :)

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Re: St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 24 June 23 20:40 BST (UK) »
Her mother Agnes Stone was A servant of Swan Cottages, Wittersham, Tenterden which is in Kent, nowhere near Winchester In Hampshire.

So I think you need to be looking in Kent.

There is a STONE family living at 24 Swan Cottages in 1939, so there may well be a connection.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 24 June 23 21:11 BST (UK) »
Below is totally off the wall and may be wrong.

There is an Agnes Stone in the 1939 living at a school in Sutton Valence near Maidstone.  There is another name which on investigation is a marriage:-

Marriages Mar 1942
Crump    Frederick    Stone    Maidstone    2a   2815
Stone    Agnes J    Crump    Maidstone    2a   2815

Going by the birth date, most likely birth record:-

STONE, AGNES  JEAN     - 
GRO Reference: 1918  D Quarter in CANTERBURY  Volume 02A  Page 1386

Most likely death:-
CRUMP, AGNES  JEAN     1918 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q4/1996 in SHEPWAY  (5731B)  Reg SSB7  Entry Number 253

Birth date is 29th October 1918 which is the same as on the 1939.

Whether this is the correct Agnes, who knows...........


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Re: St Thomas Lodge, Bournemouth around 1934
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 24 June 23 22:49 BST (UK) »
Here is the paperwork of the adoption :)
I will write more after work, Thankyou!