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From: "Sally Taylor" <>
Subject: RE: [MLN] Home for Friendless girls 1881
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:44:26 -0500
In-Reply-To: <00c101c63f67$eeb6da20$0702010a@MARG>


I think most girls, when orphaned, were trained in domestic skills, to give
them the skills to support themselves in service. There were not a lot of
options open to girls and women, and of course the young ones, if someone
did not watch out for them, and take them in, they could be vulnerable to
the unscrupulous!

According to some information I found, the institution you mention sounds
like it may have taken in girls and sent them on to Canada. Apparently this
is its full title:

The Canadian Home for Friendless Girls (the Edinburgh Emigration Home) on
Lauriston Road.

According to a source I found, if records still exist, the best place to
start would be the Edinburgh City Archives:
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Corporate_Services/Corporate_Communications/
archivist/Edinburgh_City_Archives.html


Although not specific to your inquiry, this article (on the web in .pdf
format) gives you an idea of how this were, and what these homes did.

http://www.bifhsgo.ca/pdf/jtmiddlemore.pdf

Sally


-----Original Message-----
From: Marg [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 3:45 AM
To:
Subject: [MLN] Home for Friendless girls 1881

I ahve found Mary Skaed (Skead) at 7 Lauriston Lane Edinburgh, St Cuthberts
in 1881, she was aged 12.

Her mother died in 1872 and her father in 1878

Could anyone tell me about this, I havent been able to track Mary
afterwards. How would the home have trained or placed Mary?



Her younger half brothers were then boarders at Tranent in a home run by St
Cutheberts Edinburgh Parochial board.

I was able to find them in later life.

kind regards
Marg O'Leary
Port Stephens, NSW, Australia


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