http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/arethusa/history.htm
But the Arethusa was not the only way in which the society tried to prepare disadvantaged children for a worthwhile life and in the early nineteen hundreds over a thousand children were in the society's care in the following various establishments: ... * Sudbury Girls Home, Wembley, Middlesex and the Ealing House Girls Home, St Mary's Road, Ealing, both of which trained orphaned girls to find employment as domestic servants in large households
http://www.missing-ancestors.com/EALING%20GIRLS%20HOME%20EALING%20INFO%20PAGE.htm
* EALING GIRLS HOME, 31 GRANGE PARK, EALING, LONDON. Certified 1st September 1903 for 9 girls. Closed in 1920. Then run by M.A.B.Y.S., renamed Ealing Hostel, which closed in 1930
Google gets more.
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So then.
Name: Jessie Edwards Age: 9 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892 Gender: Female Where born: W C, Strand Civil Parish: Ealing Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary Town: Ealing County/Island: Middlesex Country: England Registration district: Brentford Sub-registration district: Brentford ED, institution, or vessel: Ealing House Girls Industrial School and Little Girls Home
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Here's her marriage
Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriages Jun 1919 (99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edwards Jessie I MacDonald Wandsworth 1d 1048 Macdonald Donald Edwards Wandsworth 1d 1048
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Hmm. Actually, you did say
nee macdonald
which means
her maiden name was Macdonald.
So you've lost me!
Unless you mean that you said Macdonald and you meant to say Edwards.
Am I the only person in the universe who proofreads before hitting submit?
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sorry should have said her maiden name was edwards- big mistake on my part but thanks for your help.
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hi kathryn B, you must be an expert at this n can probably tell i'm a novice! she was definitely an edwards, I can only get up the death records index and that was easy enough as she died in 1987.
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she was married to Donald Macdonald, don't know when she married think probably before the 1st world war or thereabouts.
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Hi Kathryn!
Do you have her birth cert? There's just no one who looks like her in the 1901 or in the GRO births, I'm sure you know. Marriage cert? Might not give (correct) father's name, but worth a check?
(on edit: I was a moron and didn't pay attention to the spelling of "Jesse". So I retraced my steps -- made no difference.)
Here's a Jessie in an institution in Battersea in 1901, right birthdate, but the name doesn't match up at all:
Name: Jessie H Collins Age: 9 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892 Relation: Pupil Gender: Female Where born: Forest Gate, London, England Civil Parish: Battersea Ecclesiastical parish: St Mark Battersea Rise County/Island: London Country: England Registration district: Wandsworth Sub-registration district: Southwest Battersea ED, institution, or vessel: Royal Masonic Institution for Girls
She could match up with the Jessie Collins reg Q1 1892 in Marylebone. No Jessie H birth showing (I don't know where Forest Gate is).
Here's an interesting one.
Name: Jessie Bosher Year of Registration: 1891 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec District: Wandsworth County: Greater London, London, Surrey Volume: 1d Page: 547
Name: Jessie Bosher Age: 9 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892 Relation: Niece <<< Gender: Female Where born: Battersea, London, England Civil Parish: Battersea Ecclesiastical parish: St Andrew County/Island: London Country: England Registration district: Wandsworth Sub-registration district: East Battersea ED, institution, or vessel: 30 Household schedule number: 22
Household Members: Name Age Albert Bosher 19 Emily Bosher 14 George Bosher 50 Jessie Bosher 9 Kate Bosher 42 Kate Bosher 3 Walter Bosher 16 William Bosher 19
(The others are all nuclear family.)
Name: Isabel Sarah Bosher Year of Registration: 1886 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun District: Wandsworth County: Greater London, London, Surrey Volume: 1d Page: 401
-- possibly called Sally?
Here's a Sally working as a maid in Battersea:
Name: Sally Dence (I'd say Donce - no, Druce) Age: 15 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886 Relation: Servant Gender: Female Where born: Battersea, London, England Civil Parish: Lambeth Ecclesiastical parish: All Saints South Lambeth County/Island: London Country: England Registration district: Lambeth Sub-registration district: Kennington First
If you search for Druce-s in Battersea in 1901, you'll see several detached children/young people. (An older Charlotte Druce -- the surname is plainer on the second page of the image -- comes from Berkshire, like the senior Boshers in that household above.) One is a "nurse child", place of birth unknown.
Aha. They were children of David and Charlotte Druce in 1891. Charlotte shows as married in 1901; David? She died in 1915.
Just a theory, one of many that could probably be formed! And I'm not quite sure what it is. ;) But absent any Jessie MacDonald in the records ...
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Hi Kathryn, Do you know whereabouts your grandmother was born. Also to whom did she marry? Louise
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trying to find out anything to do with my grandmother, lived in London, died in wandsworth. know she had a sister sally , and came from a large family. her parents died when she was quite young and she always said she went into an orphanage, moved in with a sister (think it was in battersea) when she started working as a maid.
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