Finding Joan Day

[ian_richards]

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Georgie wrote:
Does anybody know of a private home 'The ladies training home' at Tackleway Hastings as I am trying to look into the background of my grandmother who would have attended there sometime between 1920-1932? She then went onto a C of E school in St Leonards. The school was for young ladies of single parentage, similar to an orphanage. Or perhaps someone may remember a very quiet/shy child, the only one with NO parents who attended this school. Would really appreciate any help as we have no records of her past other than her mother's name which was Ethel Day. As far as we know mygrandmother was born in April 1918.

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Hello, I was very interested to read your entry in 2004 on the subject of Joan DayJoan Day. We are trying to trace Joan Day and her birth date is 15th April 1918 although we are unable to find a birth entry in the public records for that year. Is this the birth date of enquiry. Please get in touch. Regards Ian Richards

[Nightrider]

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Sandra Bowers wrote:
Hi Michael
Last week I spoke to a lady who belongs to the St Clements and and All Saints Church ( I believe this is the church that the children were taken to every week). I explained that my mother did not have any known parents. She was born in a Workhouse in Hastings. She said the school govenors would take one parentless child from a workhouse and support her upbringing via their funds.I will be speaking to the rector this week as I and my two daughters will be taking mum's ashes to scatter in the churhyard in September and hopefully the rector will say a few words for us.If I find out any more information I will let you know.If I have time I will go through old photos in the shops there to see if they have any of the children from the Traing school.
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Hi Sandra,its a long time since I looked at the forum(dont know why) and have only just seen your posting.
Yes the girls did attend All Saints Church and I do have a funny yet sad story of the church.

Once a week the older girls would be allowed out to Guides and would meet the Scouts on the way home.
One night the boys told the girls that the ghost walk down the path from the church at midnight,so,some of the girls including my mother decided to find out.
They waited what seemed an age to them,then suddenly they could hear a loud clanking noise,they legged it to the railings,climbing over one girl fell and broke her arm,my mother left a large piece of her knickers on the spikes.
Following day my mother had to go back collect the part she left behind and -sew them back together again!!

[Nightrider]

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Sandra Bowers wrote:
Hi Michael
My mother Joan did speak of a Mary, if she said she was a quiet and shy little blond girl. Also one of the children gave her a Teddybear but I can't remember what thye name was. Do you have any group photo's of your mother and the other children during their time at the Traing Home.
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Hi Sandra,
Regret no photo's,don't think they would have allowed it at the home.
My mother was a big dark haired girl,she was at the home from about 1918 untill about 1931/2.

[cynthia_mott]

Hi Georgie

My mum, Eileen Mavis Field, now 92 years old, also lived at the Girls' home in the period you mention. If you receive this message, please reply and we can share stories and memories of my mum and your grandmother

[jnaested]

My grandmother, Dorothy Roscoe, came to South Africa in the early 20th century from Hastings as a young child. We know nothing of her parentage. She had a life-long association with Sarah Clayton (Aunt Sadie), who we have learned through research was a matron at the girls training school in the early 1900's.

How does one obtain records with details about the matrons at the girls' training school, and how does one find out if a relative was an inmate at the school?

Also, research has shown that a Sarah Clayton took several trips by ship to and from England to South Africa and the USA (and possibly Canada). - Did matrons from these schools escort any of the children from these schools to the colonies to be resettled there?