Hidden Lives Revealed. A virtual archive - children in care 1881-1981 * Image of handwritten text

Case 6070

Case number: 6070
Application year: 1897
Name:

J

Gender:

Female

Year of birth: 1883
Home: Beckett Home For Girls, Meanwood

Description:

In August 1897 at a Magistrates Court hearing J. was ordered to be detained at the Beckett Home for Girls, Leeds, an Industrial School. It was found that she had been "frequenting the company of reputed thieves". In April 1899 she went into service in Leeds.


Items: 1. Order of detention in an Industrial School 25 August 1897
2. Notice of baptism 31 December 1897




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