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Case 4770

Case number: 4770
Application year: 1895
Name:

M

Gender:

Female

Year of birth: 1884
Home: St Saviour's Home For Girls, Shrewsbury

Description:

M's mother was a servant who became pregnant by her mistress' son. She was abandoned by her family and lived a "fallen life". M. had been living at a home run by the Bath Preventative Mission since August 1894. There is veiled discussion in the correspondence alluding to M. having been subject to sexual abuse and she had perhaps been involved in prostitution. M. went into the St Saviour's Home in Shrewsbury in May 1895. In 1896 she transferred to a Miss Cotton's Home of the Good Shepherd in Leytonstone, East London, which was not a Waifs and Strays' Society Home.


Keywords: Abuse; Employment; Illegitimacy; Prostitution

Items: 1. Application to Waifs and Strays' Society 30 March 1895
2. Letter from Miss Sanders 27 March 1895
3. Letter from Miss Sanders 29 March 1895
4. Letter from the Bath Preventative Mission 29 March 1895
5. Letter to Mr Rudolf from Miss Sanders 9 April 1895
6. Letter to Miss Sanders from Miss Briscoe 9 April 1895
7. Letter to Mr Rudolf from Mary Butler 20 April 1895
8. Letter to Mr Rudolf from Mary Butler 26 April 1895
9. Postcard to Mr Rudolf from Agnes Carpenter 29 April 1895
10. Postcard to Mr Rudolf from Miss Sanders 1 May 1895
11. Extract of a letter from the Shrewsbury Home 7 May 1896
12. Notice of discharge 29 May 1896
13. Letter to Mr Rudolf from Mary Butler 29 May 1896
14. Letter from the Bath Preventative Mission 1 June 1896
15. Letter to Mr Rudolf from Mary Butler 26 June 1896




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