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Nephrititi
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Has anyone ever come across any information on Agatha Stacey Homes.
I believe there was one in Bath Row (c1930s) and also one in Rednal some time later (I think the home in Rednall was more specific to mentally ill residents).
Having searched on google it would be appear that Agatha Stacey took in prostitues and tried to put them back on the straight and narrow, and also took in "feeble minded" people and unmarried pregnant girls.
The rest of my topic is a little long winded but I hope you will bear with me.
I visited Birmingham Archives on Saturday to view records of an ancestor of mine that was admitted to Highroft Hospital (before it became a hospital for the mentally ill).
She was admitted in 1938 aged 19 suffering from Hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body) and died less than a month later. Cause of death would have been the reason for her paralysis).
The records showed where she was admitted from (her home adress in Aston) but someone had added above those details "Agatha Stacey Homes".
The "story" that came from a relative of mine was that our ancestor went missing for 3 days as a teenager, and that a man brought her back but she was "never the same"afterwards.
I know I should have enquired at the Library whilst I was there but I am only just going over the notes I made trying to make sense of everything.
Fay
I believe there was one in Bath Row (c1930s) and also one in Rednal some time later (I think the home in Rednall was more specific to mentally ill residents).
Having searched on google it would be appear that Agatha Stacey took in prostitues and tried to put them back on the straight and narrow, and also took in "feeble minded" people and unmarried pregnant girls.
The rest of my topic is a little long winded but I hope you will bear with me.
I visited Birmingham Archives on Saturday to view records of an ancestor of mine that was admitted to Highroft Hospital (before it became a hospital for the mentally ill).
She was admitted in 1938 aged 19 suffering from Hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body) and died less than a month later. Cause of death would have been the reason for her paralysis).
The records showed where she was admitted from (her home adress in Aston) but someone had added above those details "Agatha Stacey Homes".
The "story" that came from a relative of mine was that our ancestor went missing for 3 days as a teenager, and that a man brought her back but she was "never the same"afterwards.
I know I should have enquired at the Library whilst I was there but I am only just going over the notes I made trying to make sense of everything.
Fay