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Oxford Penitentiary

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Paul

Paul Report 10 Nov 2006 13:46

thanks peeeps!

☺Carol in Dulwich☺

☺Carol in Dulwich☺ Report 10 Nov 2006 11:31

The Oxford Female Penitentiary Society, founded in 1832 to assist and reform penitent prostitutes and others who had been seduced, opened a temporary refuge in Brewer Street. (fn. 8) In 1856 it was moved to Holywell Manor where from 1862 to 1929 the sisters of St. John the Baptist ran a long-stay penitentiary and training home. (fn. 9) In 1929 the home was moved to St. Mary's Home, Lawn Upton House, Littlemore, which continued as a training home for delinquent girls until c. 1949. (fn. 10) From: 'Public Services', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 4: The City of Oxford (1979), pp. 350-64. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22819. Date accessed: 10 November 2006.

Paul

Paul Report 10 Nov 2006 11:20

Does anyone know where or how to find records of someone who was in Oxford Penitentiary? I've found my 2 x Great Granfathers sister, Ellen Feller, in there during the 1861 Census. I would like to find out her crime.

Paul

Paul Report 10 Nov 2006 11:20