Magdalen Asylum Islington St Birmingham

[Geminidi]

I have a record of a Harriett Galey/Gailey being an inmate’s in 1841. Am I on the correct website to find out any more information?

 

[Astoness]

hi and welcome...what sort of info are you looking for...are you looking for info about the actual asylum itself

lyn

 

[Geminidi]

Hi and thank you. I would like to know more about the asylum and why she could have been there. Didn't the Magdalene Asylums begin in Ireland? Could she have had an illigitimate child? If so the child possibly died? Harriet later married James Fowler who was about 12 years senior and on the 1851 Census the children listed are from his previous marriage.

 

[Geminidi]

Hi Lyn. Still finding my way around this very interesting site I see you already have a thread going for the Magdalene Asylum. Was there only ever one? I see Harriet's parents had died just before the 1841 Census so perhaps she was destitute.

 

[Janet Hunt]

Hi Lyn. Still finding my way around this very interesting site I see you already have a thread going for the Magdalene Asylum. Was there only ever one? I see Harriet's parents had died just before the 1841 Census so perhaps she was destitute.

Found this map which shows the asylums location on what was Islington Street, which I think is now the end of Broad Street

 

[Janet Hunt]

Hi Lyn. Still finding my way around this very interesting site I see you already have a thread going for the Magdalene Asylum. Was there only ever one? I see Harriet's parents had died just before the 1841 Census so perhaps she was destitute.

Hi
There is also a thread on this site with info on Magdalen Asylum called "Magdalen Asylum" You can find a lot more information on there. Hope this helps

 

[Geminidi]

Hi. Will certainly check that thread. Thanks a lot