Genealogy Chat

Hi Can anyone point me in the direction of finding out whether Wallasey Holiday Home, Scotland Street, Ellesmere was an evacuee site during WWII. I'm trying to figure out why my grandmother would be up there having a baby when her husband was in Chiswick. Sue

You can google for this place. But as it happens, I found that my m-i-l was also evacuated from London in 1944 to Southport when she was due to have her first son - apparently the council made arrangments for pregnant women to go to safe areas for the confinement and then return a few weeks after the birth - not sure how safe that really worked out! I should think Southport isnt far from Wallasey - they must have had a good deal with Cheshire seaside councils! But google search for that place, but Im sure it will be same reasons.

Heather That would make sense as my grandmother was pregnant and had her baby in Berrington Hospital. Its just she abandoned her 3 daughters almost immediately and completely disappeared! I've been googling ad can't find any reference to Wallasey Holiday Home. Sue

I would imagine it was an early holiday camp. My mil went to some hotel at the Southport holiday resort - I bet the poor devils had the time of their lives being on a real holiday! Maybe your lady met a gentleman whilst she was up there? Have you found a remarriage or death for her?

I can't find any record of her remarrying and to be honest we only knew about 2 sisters (my mum now deceased) and my aunty. Another sister has appeared this week who was apparently adopted out. Her social services records states that the mum abandoned the family. I can only think that maybe she met up with someone. Nothing had been heard from her by 1949 and nothing to my knowledge since - so I'm at a bit of a loss. I'm currently looking at whether she went overseas at the end of the war.

lol, I should think for a lot of these London girls it was their first holiday ever, albeit with a stomach the size of a house! If you email the local records office or newspapers Im sure they will have some detail of the expectant mother evacuees. Just read your other message - you may want to find out who was barracked there at that time! I seem to remember mil telling me there were a lot of Canadian soldiers there too!!! Good luck.

I found an Amy Fisher yesterday who shipped out to Canada on the warbrides records. She couldn't have been married to her sweetheart though as she definitely was not divorced. I am desperately waiting for a reply from the website to see if its her. I've gained an Aunty and 2 cousins in a week and now find my grandmother may have run off to Canada - amazing what GR has turned up! Thanks for the help. Sue

Well, thats a coincidence isnt it - re ma in law telling me about handsome Canadians and now you say that ............... may be, eh?

I think there is a strong possibility that she's found someone else and gone back with them. I'm hoping to get some information from my Aunty that I have know about but she's never mentioned her mother in the past.

Don't think too harshly of her. She may have abandoned her children but her husband may have given her no alternative if he found out she was pregnant to another man. Its occurred to me she may still be alive.

you also wouldnt be evacuated to wallasey-more like the other way round-Wallasey is right on the edge of the Mersey and it got bombed-I have records of all the civilian deaths........it paid the price of being close top liverpool....... Wallasey is just a small place and there were hundreds of civilian deaths in WW2 In Carlisle -a much bigger place- probably 10-20 times the size.....only one civilian death. People were evacuated to rural locations,which again ties in with Ellesmere in Shropshire.

Bit confused here.........Wallasey Holiday Home........in Ellesmere ????.... I live in Wallasey and Ellesmere is in another county...there is Ellesmere Port which is also on the Wirral. The Wallasey reference must be just a name not a location...... Scotland Street definitely exists in Ellesmere and that is in Shropshire.

The address is definitely Wallasey Holiday Home, Scotland Road, Ellesemere. I'm sure she had very good reasons for disappearing and I don't blame her at all - I just want to locate what happened to her. The birth cert for the third daugther gives Shropshire as well. I definitely now know that she is not the Amy Fisher that went to Canada so I'm back to square one! Very frustrating. Sue

Scotland Street Shropshire Businesses>>>>>>>>(try phoning a few to see if any locals know owt) Black Lion Hotel 01691 622418

Ego, Stockport is near the Mersey too isnt it? And thats where mil was sent. May be it wasnt brilliantly safe but probably safer than London. As said, the name was probably just for the particular hotel or whatever - like you get 'London' hotel in Brighton and so on. I remember dad saying that ships were diverted to Liverpool because there was so much less bombing of the docks there than in London - dockers were sent up there to work (dad was a docker, it was a reserved occupation but he was a volunteer for the RAF - said the guys sent up to Liverpool were paid triple wages!). You northerners had it easy compared to London!

Sue, just had a google - have a quick look at New Brighton, 'famous Wallasey Holiday Resort' - wonder if its worth mailing that site?

Heather I live in new brighton...the wallasey name is irrelevent...the home was in Shropshire -Scotland street in Ellesmere.......wallasey encompasses New brighton...you are confusing sue LOL.........Stockport is inland-nowhere near the Mersey. ........my house got bombed here-the owner was killed... people were not evacuated to this area- Liverpool had its own Blitz-people buried underground in air raid shelters by our own government . Shropshire forget wallasey...its just a name...maybe the owners came from there.

I'm going to need Sherlock Holmes to find this lady! I can understand her being evacuated out of London though. May be I could try searching local schools who took evacuees in case my granmother (Amy) took my mother (Daphne) with her who was born in 1938 - she may have been old enough to start school by then. I doubt she would have left the two older girls in London - unless of course she was already estranged from her family and just returned to London to give up the new baby. Sue

I would start with what you know and see if there is the same building but maybe under a differnt name....wont harm to contact locals in the area...any files will have been binned after 25 years though if that was relevant....to the local council......maybe there is a forum associated with the area-some newspapers run them-war memories etc...also try war memories archive on BBC-its vast.

POO, confusing meself as well, not Stockport - he was born Southport!