Good morning, Thank you .. to the people who have responded with new information. One person wrote to remind me of the name of the street .. which I couldn't remember yesterday morning. During some of the years "The Temporary Home" existed, it was on Chardon Street. And, many people referred to it as "the Chardon Street Home." "The Temporary Home" which I found out exists now is currently on .. New Chardon Street in the Government Center. I was told that the original Chardon Street no longer exists, but it might have been in the same vicinity of the current New Chardon Street. Someone else wrote to tell me about another "Home" in the same area, and mentioned that the records were in the Archives Dept. at Simmons College. I contacted that office at least once, and they responded that they do not have any information on "The Temporary Home" which I am trying to find information on. Since I started this discussion, I decided to pull out an envelope of papers I had received from "the State House." Someone there sent me Xerox copies of a few pages of a booklet, called "A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Boston, ....." It mentions the Old Corner Bookstore and the date, 1891. The two "homes" I was remembering were described as follows: "The Temporary Home (1862), Chardon St. Gives temporary shelter and food to needy women and children, while endeavoring to procure employment or find friends. The women do the work of the Home and wash for the Wayfarers' Lodge. Foundlings brought by the police are received here. 53 beds. ... Wayfarers' Lodge (1879), Hawkins St. 200 beds. One room is devoted to men who are aged and infirm, or otherwise entitled to consideration. Each man must take a warm bath on entering, and receives a wholesome breakfast and supper. In return, he cuts and saws wood for one or two hours. Men also earn their meals in the Lodge yard. The wood is used in public buildings, sold to the public, and given to the poor...." Now that I re-read this, I was reminded that .. my grandmother's "birth information" seems to have disappeared into thin air ... I've checked with a half-dozen different types of offices, and there is no birth record for a baby girl, probably born on Feb. 1, 1889, with the name, Daisy WATROUS (Middlesex County, MA) (I heard that WATROUS is a shortened version of WATERHOUSE.) Almost 2 years ago, I had my grandmother's Adoption Records opened. Even though there were only a few pages of paper in the folder, I did find a few facts which .. started my current search. And, one of the things which was stated is that the baby, Daisy WATROUS, had her name changed at her Adoption in March 1892. (In the book of Middlesex County name changes.) ... One of the "family stories" (many of which turn out to be .. not true) was that she was named by the nurses in the hospital. I can understand nurses giving a baby a first name, but I've never heard of an abandoned baby being given a .. surname. My imagination turned up an amusing thought .. that there was a Robert WATROUS living in Boston in the 1880's, and he was a Piano Tuner. In that capacity he probably had the opportunity to visit many homes in the greater Boston area. In this envelope of papers, I had put a copy of an e-mail from the BPL Reference Dept. Some of the information they provided was: Chardon Street Shelter, Temporary Home for Women and Children 41 New Chardon Street, Boston "According to 'King's Dictionary of Boston,' the "shelter" (see above) opened in 1877 at 327 Tremont Street .. as the Temporary Home for Working Women." "The new Chardon Street Shelter, operated by the DSS, is a facility for women and children. It opened in 1877 on Tremont Street as the Temporary Home for Working Women. The current shelter is at 41 New Chardon Street." By re-reading the letter which came with the above papers, an Aide in the Executive Dept. of the State House stated that, in addition to Simmons College, there is another Archives Dept. which should be contacted: the Special Collections of the Boston Healy Library at U.Mass./Boston. Thank you for your time. Betty (near Lowell, MA) P.S. My grandmother, nee' Daisy WATROUS, 2/1/1889, remembered very little of her youth, and some of what she did remember .. were "family stories" told to her. Even though many of them turned out to be not true, some of them ..may.. be true. One of the "stories" was that her birthmother was killed in a train accident while traveling. Because the baby was formally adopted in 1892, it could be that ..Miss DEXTER.. was killed in 1890 or 1891. Or, she could have been killed .. a few years later.