Nazareth House, Aberdeen

[tishgibbons]

Evenin' Folks!

I have an ancestor, Margaret Mitchell whose death certificate shows she died at Nazareth House, Claremont St., Aberdeen, 18th December 1919. Idly surfing tonight - as I'm stuck on massive brick walls! - I googled Nazareth House and found that it was a children's home at some stage and also found some by now depressingly familiar stories of abuse. Not getting in to that but it seems Nazareth House was run by Catholic Nuns which confuses things a bit more.

My questions are:- Were the children's home and the retirement home one and the same place? Was it likely that those of a different faith would have lodged there (the Mitchells in Scotland were always Presbyterian)? Was it a charity or a privately run home by 1919? Just trying to fill in blanks and put some 'flesh' on the 'bones' of these ancestors.

Tish

[AndrewP]

Hi Tish,

See how you get on searching their website (or maybe you have been there already).

http://www.nazarethhouse.org/

All the best,

AndrewP

[tishgibbons]

Thanks Andrew,

had a look but it doesn't really answer the questions though suggests that they cared for the poor, so I suppose that's an answer in itself.

Thanks

Tish

[amazinggrace]

I am looking for any McQueens, who were put into Nazareth House (home for Orphans), in May 1911. Grace Robertson McQueen was in Newmills poorhouse (Aberdeen), and died, which left her children without a mother. The father John, remarried.
The children were Alexander, Margaret, Annie, Hugh, Willimena (I think)...!
Nazareth House records are quite frankly, useless!

[StewL]

Hello amazinggrace

Hopefully someone will come along who may be able to assist you in your search.
They are a very helpful lot on TS

[nelmit]

I am looking for any McQueens, who were put into Nazareth House (home for Orphans), in May 1911. Grace Robertson McQueen was in Newmills poorhouse (Aberdeen), and died, which left her children without a mother. The father John, remarried.
The children were Alexander, Margaret, Annie, Hugh, Willimena (I think)...!
Nazareth House records are quite frankly, useless!

A death search at SP putting McQueen as the surname and Robertson in the mother's maiden name box gives 23 matches. A Margaret and Annie show up on the list. A look at the index will give you their year of birth, married names and where they died.

Regards,
Annette