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I'm trying to flesh out family lore with details...

I was told that a relative and her brothers were sent to orphanages in adjacent buildings in Liverpool, the girl in one building, and her brothers next door. I'm now wondering if this was possibly the Workhouse at Walton Hospital. Or someplace like it?

The parents married at ages 16 and 17, a year AFTER their daughter was born. It can't have been a formula for success. They lived in the Scotland Road area of Liverpool, which I'm told was the poorest part of the city.

The children were born in the 1930s so would have been in the orphanage from the mid 1930s onwards. The eldest, a girl, was born in 1930 in West Derby. Her brothers were born in 1932, 1934, and 1938 in Prescot and "Liverpool". The story is that she and two of the brothers were sent to the orphanages, and their parents sent them there, so they felt rejected. Perhaps one of the brothers had already died?

The girl was urged to go into domestic service, but she wanted to become a nurse, and she was successful in this. She ultimately became a district nurse, visiting patients in their homes. I'm told that the TV show "Call the Midwife" looks very much like what her experience would have been. We still have her nursing books. She died in 1974.

Hi and welcome to the forum.

At that date my suspicions would be that they may have been sent to the Cottage Homes in Fazakerley. It would certainly have had houses next to each other for boys and girls. There is a good picture of the site here http://www.childrenscottagehomes.org.uk/fazakerley.html

We also have links for you to make contact and see if they can help with your search. http://forum.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk ... tage+homes

They also have a reunion each year, this years is on Saturday 27th June. 10am-6pm. at Fazakerley Federation, Formosa Drive, Liverpool, L10 7LB., which is across the road from Fazakerley Cottage Homes.

There is an account of the 2011 reunion on this site http://www.careleavers.com/news/19-events/284-fcha2011

Hope some of this helps with your search.

Anyone think the NHS Register 1939 records would identify the location? It might not necessarily be helpful in this case as this census was taken a few weeks after the first wartime evacuation of Liverpool children so these children may have been sent out of the city. A date of birth and a not too common name should find them on the 1939 Register if they are now deceased.

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/register-service


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A possible lead?
In 1931 The Liverpool Orphanages in Myrtle Street, Liverpool, consisted of two separate buildings next to each other. While researching 3 orphaned children who were sent there in 1931 I was informed that in 1932 the orphanages were moved to Woolton.

From Liverpool Orphanages: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/ ... al&cid=0#0.
In 1913 it was decided that the asylums should be united and the three asylums collectively became the Liverpool Orphan Asylum and later, in 1925, the Liverpool Orphanage. From this point on only one governing body controlled the asylum. The site, however, was not ideal and the Committee raised funds to remove the children from the congested site in Myrtle Street to healthier surroundings in Woolton Road. The Great Fair in 1930 was held to provide the necessary funds which enabled the purchase of the new premises.

In 1940 the children were evacuated to the Lake District. The girls to Wanlass How, Ambleside and the boys to Hawse End, Keswick, Cumberland. They remained in this accommodation until 1952 when the Orphanage was eventually de-requisitioned and the children returned to the Woolton Road premises. A new primary school was built on the premises of the orphanage named the Childwall Church of England School. Five years later in 1958 the name of the Liverpool Orphanage was changed to Salisbury House. The old name was still in common usage after this time but it was eventually phased out to modernise the reputation and outlook of the orphanage.

Somewhat ironically, the orphanages in Myrtle Street were built adjoining the Church of the Holy Innocents....

I read the responses here to another family member, and it triggered the memory that she said she was sent to a place called Leyfield. A little digging has pulled up that it was a Catholic orphanage in West Derby for children from the workhouse. Any insight into Leyfield would be most helpful.

Please scroll down to the 5th entry on this post where Leyfield is mentioned
http://forum.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk ... 14&t=12673

Yes, it was me (the OP) who mentioned Leyfield

I meant click the link and then scroll down the page, Leyfield is included in a list of records passed from the Nugent Care to the Record Office.

Thank you! I didn't see the link....