St Mary's Road Children's Home, Portsmouth help please

[CaroleW]

Longshot

There is a David Rawlings on the 1939 register in Cornwall whose birthdate matches a June 1911 birth reg.    There is no David Rawlings birth reg in any qtr 1910-1912

[rosie99]

It is the workhouse childrens home

https://www.workhouses.org.uk/PortseaIsland/#google_vignette

On that link under records it indicates that Portsmouth History Centre has a register of children 1901-47.  Could they be the childrens home entries.   It also mentions that FindMyPast have admission and discharge records that are over 100 years old, could they include the childrens home

[hevside]

Thank you Rosie, I have checked those available on FindMyPast, without success. I live in Lancashire so don't have access to the Portsmouth records office.

I have now seen the birth certs for Olive, David and Esther and they all have the same mother. She is Amelia Chandler formerly Rawlings who died in 1917 at the age of 37 in Basingstoke so am happy that this is the right family. These families are all travellers so there have been many name changes and non-marriages along the way!

Thank you all for your massive help as I now have enough to proceed further.

Heather

[rosie99]

I am pleased that we have found the right childrens births, I can't see one for Thomas in Alton RD.
At least you can progress a bit more with it now