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COCKETT VILLAGE COTTAGE HOMES SWANSEA

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Linda

Linda Report 22 Apr 2010 09:04

DOES ANYONE PLEASE HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON COCKETT VILLAGE COTTAGE HOMES SWANSEA, MY UNCLE WAS PUT INTO THERE CARE IN 1901 ALL I KNOW IS THAT IT WAS A INSTITUTION, AND I,M LOOKING FOR AS MUCH INFORMATION AS I CAN PLEASE, COULD ANYONE PLEASE HELP.

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 22 Apr 2010 09:11

Just do a google search - there is some information out there. You could also try contacting the main Swansea Library, they may well have some information.
Jan

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 22 Apr 2010 16:54

Swansea Cottage Homes 1891





Swansea Union Cottage Homes 1891 census

Registration district: Swansea
Sub district of: Llandilotalybont
Source: 1891 Census

Swansea Union Cottage Homes - Home for destitute children - Cockett Village

STAFF

Thomas Morgan head superintendent mar 34 superintendent of cottage house Swansea Glamorgan
Maria Townsend Morgan wife of super. Matron mar 34 matron Durley Gloucestershire
Brinley Summers Morgan son 4 Swansea Glamorgan
Maria Rogers asst. Matron s 39 asst. matron Neath Glamorgan
Emmie Forbes asst. Matron s 28 asst. matron Portsmouth Hants
Letitia Lloyd asst. Matron wid 49 asst. matron Swansea Glamorgan
Mary Jewers asst. matron wid 54 asst. matron Northamptonshire Baegetl(p)
Elizabeth Jenkins asst. matron wid 48 asst. matron Bath Somerset
Sarah Jones dom. ser. s 30 domestic servant Aberdare Glamorgan

INMATES:

Mary Ann Welsh 13 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Ann Powel 13 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Frederick Fukes 12 scholar Lancashire manchester
Llewellyn Evans 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Thomas Lloyd 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Mary Jane Donavon 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Janet Thomas 9 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Catherine Herepath 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
David Thomas 14 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Prudence Herepath 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Ellen Moore 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Albert Jno Smith 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Florence Maud Smith 13 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Margaret Moore 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
John Douglas 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Elizabeth Ann Fukes 10 scholar Glamorgan Cardiff
Philip Jones 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
George Jones 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
George Wm Bowman 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Charles Bowman 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Tommy Jones 9 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Alice Jones 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
John Thomas 14 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
William Williams 9 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Elizabeth Wilson 15 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Frank Opie 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Sarah Jane Bowen 9 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Minnie Harris 8 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Mary Owen 8 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Emma Jane Milward 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Minnie Welsh 8 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
William Jones 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
James Jones 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
mary Jones 8 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
William Hy Perkins 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Rees Daley 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Eliza Ann Daley 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
William Grove 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Philip Jno Owen 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Margaret Daley 8 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Eliza Ann Bateman 9 scholar Carmarthen Llanelly
Samuel Cooper 9 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Walter Thomas 9 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
William Thomas 7 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
George Cooper 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Philip Jno James 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Frederick James 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Daniel Evans 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Elizabeth Fanny James 8 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Jennie Bateman 7 scholar Carmarthen Llanelly
Davies Harris 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Mary Osborne 9 scholar Glamorgan Bridgend
Mary Ellen Osborne 13 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Margaret Ann Bowen 6 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Ruth Jewell 6 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Mary Ellen Houghin 6 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Maggie Houghin 12 scholar Denbigh Wrexham
George Durrant 11 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Edward Houghin 8 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
John Houghin 4 Scholar Denbigh Wrexham
Henry Barrett 4 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Alice Thomas 6 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Agnes Milward 5 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
David Twigg 7 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
John John 7 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Arthur Mortimer 6 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
David Jno Davies 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Charles Cornish 5 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Ann Beatrice May 5 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Elizabeth Underwood 6 scholar Northampton
Maria Mortimer 8 scholar lancheshire Liverpool
Ethel Mortimer 6 scholar Lancheshire Liverpool
Edith Mortimer 10 scholar Lancheshire Liverpoor
Charlotte Sims 5 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Mary Ellen McDonald 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
William Jno McDonald 7 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Arthur Laugton 7 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Joseph Rees Davies 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Ellen Linsdale 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
William Linsdale 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Mary Bateman 5 scholar Carmarthen Llanelly
John Mitchell 5 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Thomas Mitchell 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Chalres Farmer 11 scholar Lancheshire Liverpoor
Alice Mortimer 10 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
William Mortimer 6 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Emily Farmer 5 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Alfred Harris 12 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Emily Slee 14 scholar Glamorgan Swansea
Richard Slee 9 scholar Glamorgan Swansea

Source:
1891 Census
Registration district: Swansea Sub district of: Llandilotalybont)
Submitted by Susan Martin


AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 22 Apr 2010 16:55

GENUKI: Swansea
An online index to the book Jubilee Swansea - A town in the 1890's, ..... Cockett Cottage Homes records, 1878-1950; County Borough of Swansea ..... "..... .....an elementary school in the village of Three Crosses, Swansea, Glamorgan. ...

www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Swansea/ - 72k - Similar pages

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Swansea/

Linda

Linda Report 23 Apr 2010 09:14

Thank you so much Anne of Greengables, thats been a great help to me.

Graham

Graham Report 21 Nov 2016 22:39

better late than never but only now seen this.i had brothers & sisters in the cottage homes after being left homeless. this was in the mid 50`s. i had lots of schoolfriends there also & am `friends` on facebook with a couple.
graham.