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From: "Lisa Lepore" <>
Subject: Re: [MAHAMPSH-L] What was the Guild of the Holy Child in Westfield, MA ca 1939?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:22:31 -0400
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Dora -

I found it listed in a couple of adoption websites. Seems to
be a home for unwed mothers operated by Catholic Charities.
and the Sisters of Providence.

The messages I found were for births there in the 1950s & 1960s
I don't know how long the place was there.

Lisa

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dora Smith" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:19 AM
Subject: [MAHAMPSH-L] What was the Guild of the Holy Child in
Westfield, MA ca 1939?


> My mother in law was born at the Guild of the Holy Child, in
Westfield,
> Massachusetts. Her mother was not married, she lived in
Northampton, and
> my mother in law was placed in foster care.
>
> What was the Guild of the Holy Child? Was it a hospital, or a home
for
> unwed mothers?
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, TX
>
>

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