Hi Can anyone tell me where I can find out about Care Homes for children in Sheffield around the 1920's? I would be most grateful Regards Jenny (Whitby)

Hello Jenny (in Whitby, my next favourite place after Sheffield), The only reference book that I know about (and have a copy) is, For the Love of Children, (A Story of the Poor Children of Sheffield and of Fulwood Cottage Homes) by Marjorie Dunn which gives a good insight into the care of children in Sheffield and does cover the 1920's. I have just checked the S&DFHS website and they are still showing it as available for sale at £4.40, if you click on the link below it will take you to the correct page, if you scroll down you will see the title. You can print an order form off the website and order it direct from the S&DFHS. If you decide not to order it from them, the ISBN No is: 0-9513824-0-3. http://www.sheffieldfhs.org.uk/Pub_con/Printed-Booklets.htm Best Wishes Jeremy Crawshaw Crookes SHEFFIELD ---------------------------------------------------- Outgoing Mail protected by: NORTON Internet Security 2004 Updated: 6th February 2005 ---------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Mason" <natphos@bio12.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:03 PM Subject: [SHEFF] Children's Care Homes > Hi > > Can anyone tell me where I can find out about Care Homes for children in > Sheffield around the 1920's? I would be most grateful > > Regards Jenny (Whitby)

Jeremy, Are there any names in the book of children who were in Fulwood Cottage homes. My mother said that she was in there for a while in the 1920s. This is what she wrote in a small journal "In 1921 we were taken in to the Fulwood cottage homes, all separate houses with a house mother, but we had to look after ourselves, keep clean and tidy, polish our shoes and all this at just four years old." John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Crawshaw" <jeremy.crawshaw@talktalk.net> To: <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [SHEFF] Children's Care Homes > Hello Jenny (in Whitby, my next favourite place after Sheffield), > > The only reference book that I know about (and have a copy) is, > > For the Love of Children, (A Story of the Poor Children of Sheffield and of > Fulwood Cottage Homes) by Marjorie Dunn which gives a good insight into the > care of children in Sheffield and does cover the 1920's. > > I have just checked the S&DFHS website and they are still showing it as > available for sale at £4.40, if you click on the link below it will take you > to the correct page, if you scroll down you will see the title. You can > print an order form off the website and order it direct from the S&DFHS. > > If you decide not to order it from them, the ISBN No is: 0-9513824-0-3. > > http://www.sheffieldfhs.org.uk/Pub_con/Printed-Booklets.htm > > Best Wishes > > Jeremy Crawshaw > Crookes > SHEFFIELD > > - -------------------------------------------------- > Outgoing Mail protected by: > NORTON Internet Security 2004 > Updated: 6th February 2005 > - -------------------------------------------------- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jennifer Mason" <natphos@bio12.freeserve.co.uk> > To: <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:03 PM > Subject: [SHEFF] Children's Care Homes > > > > Hi > > > > Can anyone tell me where I can find out about Care Homes for children in > > Sheffield around the 1920's? I would be most grateful > > > > Regards Jenny (Whitby) > > ______________________________

John, There are a few children's names mentioned in the book but you didn't mention your mum's name for me to look. If you are interested in finding out about your mum's stay in the home I have the address to write to, as in September 2001 I wrote enquiring about my grandfather's half-brother, Harry CRAWSHAW who had three stays in the home, two in 1925 and one in 1929. The lady I wrote to was very helpful and provided a typed A4 piece of paper with all the details of Harry's various admissions and other additional info such as relatives names and addresses. If you wish to write the address is as follows, I do have the lady's name but for obvious reasons would not want to place her name on the list without her permission (if anyone wants this name please mail me off list), the address (in 2001) was, Sheffield City Council Social Services Floor 3 Castle Market Buildings Exchange Street SHEFFIELD S1 2AH Just as a side issue to the Fulwood Cottage Homes, there is a plaque at Kelham Island Industrial Museum which lists all the names of the children of the home that served in both World Wars, (my G.Uncle, Harry CRAWSHAW is on the list) and I have a typed copy of all the names which I obtained from Sheffield Archives if anyone wishes to know if their relative is mentioned, although don't ask me whereabouts in the museum it is as I've never actually seen it. If there is enough interest I may list down all the names and mail it to the list. Best Wishes Jeremy Crawshaw Crookes SHEFFIELD ---------------------------------------------------- Outgoing Mail protected by: NORTON Internet Security 2004 Updated: 6th February 2005 ---------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "John & Dorothy Travis" <trav126@hotmail.com> To: "Jeremy Crawshaw" <jeremy.crawshaw@talktalk.net>; <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [SHEFF] Children's Care Homes > Jeremy, > Are there any names in the book of children who were in Fulwood Cottage > homes. My mother said that she was in there for a while in the 1920s. This > is what she wrote in a small journal > > "In 1921 we were taken in to the Fulwood cottage homes, all separate > houses > with a house mother, but we had to look after ourselves, keep clean and > tidy, polish our shoes and all this at just four years old." > > John

hello Jenny, Fulwood Cottage Homes was specifically for children within the Ecclesall Bierlow Union. There will have been other homes for Sheffield Union. I vaguely remember that Sheffield sometimes had different theories about what sort of institutions should house orphans - they preferred smaller houses within communities, rather than larger establishments like Fulwood. Sheffield Archives is likely to have records of many of these. They certainly have the records for Fulwood. Here is some information from a conversation I had on the Yorksgen list some time ago (1999!). >>>>>>>> Fulwood Cottage Homes (set up by Ecclesall Board of Guardians) first children transferred 30 Sep 1905 CA 41/37 [Archives reference] register of children 1905-1927 arranged alphabetically (closed until 2003) CA 41/38 register of children 1927-1936 (includes retrospective entries 1914-1927 copied from CA 41/37) (closed until 2012) CA 612/1 register of children adopted under the Poor Law Act 1899 Jul 1902-Oct 1924 ('ie outside dates of resolution of adoption') closed for 75 years. <<<<<<<<<< The person I was writing to also said this , which is useful to know (though the name has probably changed): >>> I am told by Sheffield Archives that I must get permission from Miss Janice Laming at the Family & Community Services Department to view the records of Fulwood Cottage Homes, as my dates fall within the restricted viewing dates. <<<< The information they gave her about the closure periods for these records differed from what I had noted, so these restrictions may have changed. Hugh in Sheffield ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Mason" <natphos@bio12.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:03 PM Subject: [SHEFF] Children's Care Homes > Hi > > Can anyone tell me where I can find out about Care Homes for children in Sheffield around the 1920's? I would be most grateful > > Regards Jenny (Whitby)