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Nugent Care ArchiveLiverpool Hope University
Karen BackhouseFiona Hair
Karen BackhouseSpecial Collections LibrarianLiverpool Hope Universitybackhok@hope.ac.uk0151 291 2027
Three little Irish lads – before admission and after…
Isabella and Christopher S--- Before admission and after“Isabella, defect child, attending Defect School”
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
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
Seventeenth Report of the Liverpool Catholic Children’s Protection Society, 1900
Letter from one of the girls who emigrated to Montreal, dated 1900
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”
A commemorative special edition of ‘Rescue Notes’, Christmas 1906
The arrival of Papal Legate, Archbishop Heenan with Canon Bennett on a Naval ship
Canon Bennett’s visit to Malta, July 1960
Lady Laycock, Governess of Malta talking with Archbishop Heenan
Diocesan OrphanagesAnnual Reports
Malta 1956-60
Helena SmartHelena SmartArchivist
Nugent Care Archive
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
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
Liverpool Record Office
Liverpool Record Office
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
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
Current and Future Collaborations
Karen BackhouseSpecial Collections LibrarianLiverpool Hope Universitybackhok@hope.ac.uk0151 291 2027
Helena SmartArchivistLiverpool Record OfficeHelena.smart@liverpool.gov.uk0151 233 5874