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Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 367 Send Message	Joan Allan	Report	22 Mar 2006 05:24
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 367 Send Message	Would anyone know the children's home/school that was 84 Kingsdown Parade in Bristol. Trying to find out who it was run by. I am helping a lady whose mother - Mary Wotley (sic) was in this home (an orphan) aged 9 at the time of the 1881census.
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 670 Send Message	Linda	Report	22 Mar 2006 06:48
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 670 Send Message	Found 1881 View Record Ann Jane Bate Adams abt 1838 Bude Haven, Cornwall, England Head 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Mable Ashley abt 1876 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Maria Ashley abt 1871 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Emily Doran abt 1867 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Ellen Harris abt 1863 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Annie Hurn abt 1870 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Selina Jefferies abt 1870 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Elizabeth Jones abt 1870 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Elizabeth Richards abt 1872 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Edith Stuckey abt 1868 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Rebecca Stuckey abt 1869 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England View Record Mary Watley abt 1872 Bristol Boarder 'Childrens Home' 84 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucestershire, England Ann being the Matron on image, Mary looks as if mistranscribed Linda
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 367 Send Message	Joan Allan	Report	23 Mar 2006 02:46
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 367 Send Message	Thanks for the information I had found this on the census but am trying to find who ran the 'home'. Bristol Bond records office cannot help so we don't know who to write to for information on Mary.
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 3 200 Send Message	Irene	Report	23 Mar 2006 08:05
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 3 200 Send Message	I googled Bristol records office and they have a site where you can email them. They are at Smeaton Road, Hotwell. Bristol and their telephone number is 0117 9224224. Good Luck Irene
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 367 Send Message	Joan Allan	Report	24 Mar 2006 02:41
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 367 Send Message	Thanks Irene My lady who I am helping went there this week and they cannot help at all on the information that we seek about Kingsdown Parade. Think her next step will be to write to the local rag and see if anyone responds. Thanks for your response.
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 2 364 Send Message	Carol	Report	24 Mar 2006 02:59
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 2 364 Send Message	In case you are wondering, the local rag would be the Bristol Evening Post or the Western Daily Press
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 3 200 Send Message	Irene	Report	24 Mar 2006 07:59
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 3 200 Send Message	Joan did you notice that Ann Adams the matron is a housekeeper in Dorset in the 1891 census. I think her name is Ann Jane Kate Adams. The births for that area on IGI do not start to 1843 so could not check her full title. Good Luck Irene

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