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From: Marj Kohli <>
Subject: Re: [UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP] St Vincent's Boys Home, London
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:21:32 -0500
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Connie

You will find some info on the Catholic organizations here

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/catholic.html

or in my book

Young Immigrants to Canada: 1869-1939.

Manning was a very interesting man and tried to get the Catholic children
out of the workhouse and into Catholic institutions. He was instrumental in
establishing many Catholic institutions.

St. Vincent's Home was located in Brook Green Lane, Hammersmith and was
opened Dec 1859 (only room for 20 boys). It was originally run on a
patronage system - 4 shillings a week was paid by a sponsor to send a boy
there.

The home became too small and was given over to the care of girls while St
Vincent's moved to larger quarters. In 1876 Rev. Lord Archibald Douglas was
in charge of the home now on Harrow Road. About 1886 Father Douglas Hope
took charge of the home.

You will find info on Cardinal Manning online at

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09604b.htm

Regards..

Marj Kohli

At 03:57 PM 11/3/2006, Connie Williams wrote:
>Hello everybody,
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>Within in the last hour I have just received an exciting E-mail from of a
>party from St Vincent's Boys Home under the care of Cardinal Manning. I
>already knew that a sister spent some years in a Nazareth Home in Fulham and
>my suspicions have long been that my widowed g-grandmother may well have
>entered a workhouse or similar for the period when they are all missing form
>the 1891 census.
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>My question is....does anyone on this list have any particular knowledge of
>any London based St Vincent's Homes and can give me some background?
>Undoubtedly I shall be finding every possible moment over the weekend on
>this new trail but would love to know anything that you may have to hand. I
>do have a smattering of knowledge about Cardinal Manning - I think he
>championed better wages for the poor working classes didn't he?
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>Interestingly, the family were not and are not Catholic but I did note that
>the referral to the Nazareth Home was made by a local Catholic Church in
>West London, near to their home so it seemed at the time to be a church
>involved with local social needs as a priority.
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>Connie Williams
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