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Lahai-roi The Grange 42 Park Hill Moseley

Mark A W said:
Hi all,
Interesting to read that some mums were able to leave the Grange with their baby. I had always assumed that I would have been taken away from my birth mum at the home.
But, last week I finally got my original birth certificate which showed that my birth was registered by my mum herself when I was 10 days old and it looks like I was handed to a foster mother a few days after that only a mile from her home and 10 miles from the Grange.
Was it usual for the birth mother to register the birth herself if she was still at the Grange or was that done for them?
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Hi welcome please may I ask what year you was born at the Grange thankyou
 
Kizzykat said:
Hi welcome please may I ask what year you was born at the Grange thankyou
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Thanks Kizzykat.
October 1971. There's a couple of earlier posts I made about 9 months ago despite me showing as a "New Member"!
Edit: ignore that last bit - I've now been changed to a Brummie Babby :-)
 
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Mark A W said:
Hi all,
Interesting to read that some mums were able to leave the Grange with their baby. I had always assumed that I would have been taken away from my birth mum at the home.
But, last week I finally got my original birth certificate which showed that my birth was registered by my mum herself when I was 10 days old and it looks like I was handed to a foster mother a few days after that only a mile from her home and 10 miles from the Grange.
Was it usual for the birth mother to register the birth herself if she was still at the Grange or was that done for them?
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Hello Mark

Yes I believe it is usual for birth mothers to register their babies. One thing they were allowed to do. In one of my previous posts I mentioned that one of the handful of decent people at that time was the registrar. He was kind and showed genuine empathy. The only other thing birth mothers could have any right to, was that the adopting parents would bring her child up in the faith she chose, (on paper any way.) The adoptive parents were advised they should change the child's given name when it was christened.
 
Hello,

For a few years now on and off I have been looking for a copy of Winifred, Her Story: Bibliography of Winifred Mary Hellmuth by J.G Hinton.
ISBN 13: 9780860714811

I have searched the internet, went to the library and even contacted the publishers to ask for the authors contact details. (still waiting on a reply)

have any of you managed to get the book? or have the authors details or even wanting to sell one you have may purchased?

I have a family member who was born at the mother and baby unit where Winifred worked and they are very interested in the book as they were adopted and want more insight what it was like for her birth mother there.

It will be much appreciated for any information regarding the bibliography.

Kindest Regards,

Rebekah
 
Have you tried wob.com? they often have out of print books. i managed to get a book that was out of print that had members of my family in it.
There is also abebooks.com.
You can check on line if they have the book. Another could be Oxfam books on line.
 
BeckyCawley said:
Hello,

For a few years now on and off I have been looking for a copy of Winifred, Her Story: Bibliography of Winifred Mary Hellmuth by J.G Hinton.
ISBN 13: 9780860714811

I have searched the internet, went to the library and even contacted the publishers to ask for the authors contact details. (still waiting on a reply)

have any of you managed to get the book? or have the authors details or even wanting to sell one you have may purchased?

I have a family member who was born at the mother and baby unit where Winifred worked and they are very interested in the book as they were adopted and want more insight what it was like for her birth mother there.

It will be much appreciated for any information regarding the bibliography.

Kindest Regards,

Rebekah
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I have some info on the home itself. Plus my Birth Mother's account. However if you scroll back to Louisa's post in 2011 she advises how you might obtain a copy.
 
Hi

I was taken to this home on the day I was born and lived here I believe for 2.5 years.
I would love to know more about this place.

Thx
 
Alberta said:
Lahai-roi, 42 Park hill,Moseley.Opposite St. Annes church.
Was this a mother and baby home in 1940s.
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Hi

I was taken to this home on the day I was born and lived here I believe for 2.5 years.
I would love to know more about this place.
 
Black77 said:
Hi

I was taken to this home on the day I was born and lived here I believe for 2.5 years.
I would love to know more about this place.
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if you read from post 1 of this thread there is plenty of information about the home

lyn
 
gingerjon said:
42 Park Hall

a bit more info

Kelly’s 1940 42 Park Hall
Moseley
Miss E M Adams
Nursing home
1943 no information regarding a nursing home
1946 Birmingham and Midland
Bible College
Conference centre
The Reverend George banks
1949 Laihai Roi Rescue Nursing Home
1950 and 1956 same
1964 The Grange Rescue Home
1974 The Grange Rescue Home
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I was there in 1978 for 2.5 years still a revue home.
 
My mother, Jennifer lived in this home in 1950 from the June to February 1951 from what I can work out, then adopted. We only have adoption certificate never given birth certificate but we are trying to trace names. The adoption went through the juvenile court so I'm assuming her mother was very young and given the time a forced adoption.
 
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I assume your mother's birth surname was on the Adoption record. The records will be somewhere, I would think where the people who adopted her lived as mine were, and not from where I was adopted.
 
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No it isn't for some reason just adopted name and date of birth, place and date of adoption
I Am Nico said:
I assume your mother's birth surname was on the Adoption record. The records will be somewhere, I would think where the people who adopted her lived as mine were, and not from where I was adopted
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In the 1990s The Grange became a rest home for the elderly. Source: British Newspaper Archive
 

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I was able to obtain Birth Certificates from Gro Gov they gave me an account number as I ordered many. It was to establish I was who I was and my immediate birth families were large. As it was I did not use any professional bodies, I was helped by adoptees who belonged to Norcap which is no longer, but the adoptees may still help people if you get stuck I would think. They ask you why you want to know etc. Hopefully you will not have any problems
 
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Hi all,
I have posted a few years ago but forgot log in details ..... so here i am again. My dad was adopted, his bm was staying at the grange 1951, gave birth (for some reason )at Loveday Hospital. My dad has unfortunately passed away in 2009. Although i have found my Biological family via ancestry i want to view his adoption records. Ive contacted Birmingham social services in 2023, to then be fobbed off saying the social worker was on annual leave one minute to having no response the next. I have now had to open a new case... I have explained that all persons involved are no longer here, and that i have already have my fathers original birth certificate pre adoption..... has anyone ever tried to obtain someone else's records???? i have no faith in social services helping me.
 
I googled Loveday Hospital, it appears on a different Birmingham History site, it says it was for difficult births. Lahai Ro was not a hospital as far as I am aware, no babies were delivered there.
 
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