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Nugent Care Archive Liverpool Hope University

Nugent Care Archive Liverpool Hope University. Karen Backhouse Special Collections Librarian Liverpool Hope University backhok@hope.ac.uk 0151 291 2027. Karen Backhouse Fiona Hair. Three little Irish lads – before admission and after….

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Nugent Care Archive Liverpool Hope University

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  1. Nugent Care ArchiveLiverpool Hope University Karen Backhouse Special Collections Librarian Liverpool Hope University backhok@hope.ac.uk 0151 291 2027 Karen Backhouse Fiona Hair

  2. Three little Irish lads – before admission and after…

  3. Isabella and Christopher S--- Before admission and after “Isabella, defect child, attending Defect School”

  4. Some of Nugent Care's children leaving Liverpool for a new life in the new world in the 1920s Father Nugent took the first group of 24 children to Canada on 18 August 1870 on the SS Austrian

  5. Boys from Certified Poor Law School, Beacon Lane, Liverpool Emigrated April 23rd 1903 by the Catholic Emigrating Association Party of girls emigrated to Canada, 1903

  6. Seventeenth Report of the Liverpool Catholic Children’s Protection Society, 1900 Letter from one of the girls who emigrated to Montreal, dated 1900

  7. A memorial statue to the late Monsignor Nugent was erected in St. John’s Gardens in December 1906 The inscription reads; “An eye to the blind, a foot to the lame, the Father of the pool”

  8. A commemorative special edition of ‘Rescue Notes’, Christmas 1906

  9. Canon Bennett’s visit to Malta, July 1960 The arrival of Papal Legate, Archbishop Heenan with Canon Bennett on a Naval ship

  10. Lady Laycock, Governess of Malta talking with Archbishop Heenan

  11. Diocesan Orphanages Annual Reports Malta 1956-60

  12. Helena Smart Archivist Nugent Care Archive

  13. Liverpool Record Office Nugent Care Archive • Records deposited consist of approximately 20 different organisations • The general themes are Industrial Schools, Father Berries Homes and Child Emigration records • Often existing records already at Liverpool Record Office-Nugent Care Archive cannot be viewed in isolation of wider collections

  14. Liverpool Record Office • Largest collection in the Nugent Care Archive is St. George’s Industrial School • Patrick Shannon case shows how the records can be used and the research potential

  15. Liverpool Record Office

  16. Liverpool Record Office

  17. Liverpool Record Office Further research • Nugent Care Collection lends its self to potential studies of child welfare, study of the philanthropic organisations in the city and child emigration to Canada • Uncatalogued collection-research requests can be made to Liverpool Record Office directly • Some records closed under the Data Protection Act

  18. Liverpool Record Office • Useful contacts • Helena Smart, Archivist, Liverpool Record Office • Helena.smart@liverpool.gov.uk • 0151 233 5874 • Library and Archives Canada • www.collectionscanada.gc.ca • Jsayersji@sympatico.ca

  19. Current and Future Collaborations Helena Smart Archivist Liverpool Record Office Helena.smart@liverpool.gov.uk 0151 233 5874 Karen Backhouse Special Collections Librarian Liverpool Hope University backhok@hope.ac.uk 0151 291 2027

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