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Good Evening All

I was wondering if anyone knows any information about Gordon Boys Brigade & Home?

My relative, Michael Golden (aged 15), a Gordon Boys Brigade member in York, was awarded a bravery honour from the Royal Humane Society in 1891, after he rescued a girl who had fallen into a frozen river.

The newspaper report says that he obtained admission into the Gordons Boys Home and was leaving York for his new sphere. Does anyone know where he would have been leaving York to go to? What would the Boys Home have been? I know that about 5 years later he joined the navy in Portsmouth.

Any suggestions would be gratefully recieived

Many Thanks

Dawn :-)

Lots of info on Google - good luck.

Try a google search - there seems to be quite a bit out there, such as:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/megan.zadik/vlhg/Gordon_home.htm

http://empiretocommonwealth.webs.com/medals07.htm

Jan

I
n the second half of the 19th Century
many people, particularly influential
Christians, were worried about the
poor spiritual and physical development
of young people.
The majority of youngsters, at that time, left school
at 13 yrs of age, and usually went straight into
work. For the ‘lucky’ few, mostly boys, who
attended Public Schools, religious education and
‘manly’ military training were part of the curriculum. It was inevitable then, that social reformers
would try to copy this worthy programme. From
about 1860 isolated ‘Brigades’ were formed all
over the UK but the first to develop into a truly
national organisation was ‘The Boys’ Brigade’, followed by ‘The Gordon Boys’ Brigade’ and ‘The
Church Lads’ Brigade’. The many different
Brigades, for boys and girls became known collectively as the ‘Brigade Movement’.

I was a member of the Girls'Life Brigade and Girl's Brigade.

There is information here:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon's_School

Kath. x

Thank you all for your advice.

When I googled it there were a number of different Gordon's Home and schools and I got terribly confussed but it looks like I now have the right one.

Dawn x