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Heatherington Blackpool

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Joan

Joan Report 28 Aug 2016 23:42

Thanks I will give it a go

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 28 Aug 2016 23:06

Re children's home details -
try contacting Blackpool Local and Family History Centre.

Perhaps they will be able to help, or advise you.

Contact details here:

http://tinyurl.com/gv9kkfs

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 28 Aug 2016 18:59

Googling doesn't bring up much about Blackpool children's homes.

http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/BlackpoolBC/
http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/MH4.shtml


There was a Magdalen home which opened in 1929:

http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/MH4.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/hpvt36s

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 28 Aug 2016 18:50

There is no reason to assume she is dead - she will only be 85.

She may have remarried as Hetherington, if she reverted to her maiden name after her divorce from Frank.
She may also have moved away from Lancashire.

Does your husband have any idea where she was living when she contacted the family later?
Roughly how many years is " a few"? - less than ten?

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 28 Aug 2016 17:08

There are a few marriages in Lancashire of a Patricia Mather between 1950 and 1960. I will send them by pm.

Kath. x

Joan

Joan Report 28 Aug 2016 16:25

Just wondering if anyone has any ideas to help. We are trying to trace my husbands mother Patricia Hetherington born in Blackpool 3/7/31 to Florence Hetherington of 237 Warley Rd Blackpool. No fathers details. Pat married Frank Mather in Blackpool in 1949 and had 2 children but left about 1954. She made contact with the children a few years later and had re married ? and had other children. I have checked the Blackpool address in the 1939 census but a different name is listed at that address. We know she is probably dead by now but there seems to be no trace. Does anybody know if you can trace children's home details in Blackpool in the thirties? Thanks