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Reclaiming the Past: Historical Records and Information

19th June 2013

Local Authority Archives: Expectations and Harsh Realities

Iain Flett, City Archivist, Dundee City Archives

Case Study: Jane C

Jane C – the facts

From City Registrar:Parents were W and Jane C; married 14th Feb 1930 in Lochee, DundeeTwo elder sisters born before 1942Jane C born 23 January 1942

Jane C - assumptions

If Jane C’s mother had married at norm of 25 in 1930 then she would have been 37 at her birth and elderly primigravidaJane C’s father could have been conscripted and on active service.

Dundee childcare in 1942: local government

Dundee childcare in 1942: agencies

Dundee childcare in 1942:agencies

Dundee childcare in 1942:agencies: DOI for the Protestant [and Posh]

Aberlour Orphanage: for the Protestant [and Poor]

Founded 1875 – now HQ at Stirling. Dundee Parish Council and Public Assistance sent children here if they were Protestant [and poor]. If they were Roman Catholic [and poor] they would probably be sent to Smyllum Park Orphanage in Lanark, run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul.

Aberlour Orphanage Records

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Roineach Mhor

Terminus ante quem: 17 January 1953 – Jane C is at least 11

years old

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Snowdon School Website

Working with young people since 1868Snowdon School is a residential school for girls only, aged 12 to 17, referred byLocal Authorities, Social Work Departments, Education Services, Psychological Services,Children’s Hearings and others from throughout Scotland and beyond. Snowdon has hada strong presence and history in the public sector provision for young people coveringmany decades of change and challenge. The school has been able to refine and define itsservices over many decades of working with young people in Scotland, adapting its aimsand objectives to meet the changing challenges.

Lochburn Home, Maryhill, run by the Glasgow Magdalene Institution for the Repression of Vice

and for the Reformation of Penitent Females

Wendy Webster: Imagining Home: Gender, Race And National Identity, 1945-1964

"Catherine Fairley, who was in Lochburn Magdalene from 1956 to 1958, records that they were not allowed newspapers except on Sundays, when they were provided with years old copies of Peoples Friends, from which any references to sexuality had been cut. The inmates staged a mass escape in 1958, and their allegations of ill-treatment, starvation and beatings produced demands for an enquiry. Lochburn was closed and its building demolished in 1961”

Terminus post quem: 31 December 1958 – Jane C is not more than 16 years old

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Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert

Baldovan Institution for the care and treatment of imbecile and idiot children

Strathmartine Hospital

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Jane C

• Dundee City have not been able to provide her with a single record

• All we have been able to do is provide contextual information