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I am trying to find any information about Edith Mary Cox who was born in 1937 and birth registered in Fylde, England. She was handed over by her father Cyril Horace Cox to Middlemore for adoption so I don't know if or what her name has changed to.Her mothers name was Gertrude Wardle who passed away in 1937 in childbirth. I would really like some help finding her if at all possible.

Have you got her actual date of birth from her birth certificate?
Thanks

Looks like she was born Nelson not Fylde...

Name: Edith M Cox
Mother's Maiden Surname: Wardle
Date of Registration: Jul Aug Sep 1937
Registration district: Nelson
Registration county: Lancashire
Volume Number: 8e
Page Number: 257

Misty x

Sorry only know it was July August, Sept 1937 as I don't as yet have her birth Certificate.

Thanks Misty her brothers were born in Fylde, Cyril and William.

Hi Kerry

Do you know if the Middlemore's were family?

Edit...if you buy the birth cert it will tell you if she was adopted, although not who by...

Misty x

I think Middlemore are childrens homes.They werent usually adopted from them but were sent to Canada as Home children emigrants

Middlemore was a childrens home

The Middlemore Homes were founded in 1872 by John Throgmorton Middlemore as the ‘Children’s Emigration Homes’. The first home, for boys, opened on Beatrice Crescent, St. Luke’s Road in September 1872. In December 1872, a similar home for girls opened at 36 Spring Street, Birmingham.

In 19th Century Birmingham, John Middlemore saw poor children living in overcrowded slums, in unhealthy conditions. Some children were suffering from neglect and at risk of falling into crime through a need to survive. His original mission in establishing the Middlemore Homes was to offer children a healthy upbringing, the chance to receive training and what he perceived as a better life through emigration to Canada. Children were often placed into the care of the homes by the local magistrates or were transferred to the homes from the cottage homes of the local poor law unions. The annual reports of the homes give some examples of children received into the homes. Here are two examples:

"March 3rd. – Cruelty. – Emma C., 8 years: first standard. Father in Stafford Jail, where he is committed for cruelty to this child, who has been sent to us by a magistrate’s order and whose mother, we understand, is dead.’ (Taken from the 24th annual report of the Children’s Emigration Homes for the year 1896)

"September 12th. – Both Parents’ Desertion…Father sentenced to three month’s imprisonment for deserting the children. He had sold most of his furniture, and had kept his children on bread and lard. On his desertion, the eldest boy stole and pawned quilt and perambulator in order to get food. Before desertion, and when mad drunk, he threatened the lives of all his children. The children were in an extremely filthy condition, and quite covered with sores. The evidences of neglect were very shocking. Their mother had also deserted them." (Taken from the 24th annual report of the Children’s Emigration Homes for the year 1896)

The surviving records of the homes, preserved at Birmingham Archives and Heritage department [1], reveal the mixed fortunes of these children once in Canada. Many child migrants, as John Middlemore had hoped, were better off in Canada than if they had remained in England. Others experienced ill-treatment from their employers.

The 25th annual report of the emigration homes dated 1897 summarises the aims of the organisation: ‘The Children’s Emigration Homes were established in 1872 to save boys and girls from lives of crime and pauperism. The principle adopted for this end is that of permanently removing them from criminal and pauper surroundings and transferring them by means of emigration to entirely different and hopeful associations.’

John Middlemore remained actively involved in the work of the homes until his death on 17th October 1924. In 1925, the name of the homes changed from the Children’s Emigration Homes to the ‘Middlemore Emigration Homes’.

Her 2 brothers were sent out to Australia with the Fairbridge Foundation but she stayed in England as she was already adopted.

Sad but...... are you sure she was adopted...Birth year does not fit, this can happen.....

Name: Edith May Cox
Birth Date: 22 Aug 1940
Death Registration Month/Year: Dec 1991
Age at death (estimated): 51
Registration district: Liverpool
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 36
Page: 435

Misty x

Thanks for all your help. I will order her birth cert and find out for sure if she was adopted.

You have her in your tree as born in Fylde. Do you know the person who has Edith Cox born 1937 in Nelson?

Click Search Trees up above and just search for Edith Cox, 1937.

She was born in Nelson. I put Fylde because her 2 brothers were born there and it was before I did the records check. I have adjusted it now.

I don't see a death for Gertrude on Ancestry, unless she died in Yorkshire:

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Gertrude M Cox Name: Gertrude M Cox
Death Registration Month/Year: 1937
Age at death (estimated): 39
Registration district: Skipton
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 9a
Page: 34


Rose

Kerry, my question was: someoene else has this person in their family tree; are you in touch with that person?