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09-Feb-2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Surname(s): |
GAWLEY : MOUNTJOY | |||||||||||||||||||||
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I am researching the Victor Home (for Girls) mostly for genealogy reasons but I was also like to learn more home and how they ran it and what a young ladies life would have been like while staying there. I am wondering if the babies were all born there at the Home or did the woman go to Hospital. How long were they allowed to stay etc? One of the locations for this home was 341 Jarvis Street, Toronto. Annie Gawley and Annie Mountjoy worked at the Home; they were both witnesses for various marriages for several of the young ladies that lived there. Both ladies were also mentioned in various Toronto Star news articles confirming their involvement with the Home. I know that Annie Mountjoy was the informant on the birth certificate for a man that Im helping with his search, his mother was one of the young ladies that stayed there, he and his mother were deported when he was just a couple months old to England and she never spoke of her time Canada she is now deceased and he would really like to know a little more about Victor Home. His mother stayed at the home in 1930. I found several marriage notices for ladies who show 341 Jarvis as their address at the time of marriage my hope is to find someone connected to these ladies that might have some info regarding the Victor Home. I do understand that it was a very sensitive subject and a lot of woman never wanted to talk about their time at the Victor Home because times were different than and they were made to feel ashamed for having to be there. My goal is not to shame or embarrass anyone but to get a sense on what it was like to stay there. It seems that all these women that had babies never named the fathers, they were made feel like they were not good people, the fathers were protected and the woman treated badly. I even found an article in the Apr 3, 1935 Toronto Star paper where one of the ladies staying there only 21 murdered her infant son while living at the home. My hope is that someone related to the two ladies above that worked at the home might read this and maybe one of these ladies wrote about her time working at the Home and you would be willing to share that info with me. If you are the descendants of either Annie Mountjoy or Annie Gawley I would appreciate hearing from you. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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