List of UK Mother & Baby Homes (compiled 1993)

Mother and Baby Homes and Hostels
Summary from – ‘Where to Find Adoption Records’
Compiled by Georgina Stafford for BAAF, 1993
ENGLAND
Run or Used by		 Entries
Association of Infant Welfare

Albany Institute

Barnardo’s

Bath Vigilance Association

Belgrave Ladies Association

British Lying Hospital

By committee

Cecily Northcote Trust

Children’s Aid Society

Children’s Society

Church Adoption Society

Church Army

Church Moral Aid Society

Church of England

Elizabeth Trust

East End Mission

Father Hudson Homes

Free Church Women’s Council

Grange Trust

Homeless Children’s Aid & Adoption

Hull Quaker Housing Association

Independent Trust

Mrs G H James – Private

Jewish Association for Protection of Women and Girls

Lahai-Roi Adoption Society

Leamington & Warwick Girls Shelter Association

London Female Preventative & Reformatory Institutions

Manchester & District Child Adoption Society

Manchester & Salford Methodist Mission

Messenger House Trust

Mission of Hope

Mission of Hope for Children’s Aid & Adoption

Mothercraft Training Society

Dr. George Grant McDonald [Private]

National Adoption Society

National Children’s Adoption Association

National Children’s Home

National Council for One Parent Families

Oxford Ladies Association for Care of Friendless Girls

Plymouth district Association for Girls Welfare

Queen Charlottes

Rainer Foundation

Phyllis Holman Richards Adoption Society

Roman Catholic

Royal Free Hospital

St. Margaret’s Nursing Home

St. Marylebone Female Protection Society

Salvation Army

Social Services

Society for the Rescue of Young Women & Children

Mrs. Stride [Private]

Thomas Coram

Tindall Hospital

West London Mission

Westmoreland Association for Social & Moral Welfare

Women’s Fellowship of the Methodist Church

York Adoption Society

YWCA

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1

14

1

1

1

5

1

8

1

5

11

1

243

1

1

4

2

1

1

1

2

1

3

1

1

1

4

4

1

12

4

1

1

4

7

9

10

1

1

1

3

4

79

2

1

1

40

47

1

1

4

1

1

1

2

1

1
WALES
Run or Used by		 Entries
Children’s Society

Church of England

Church of Wales

Family Care

National Council of One Parent Families

Roman Catholic

Salvation Army

Social Services

 1

5

6

1

1

7

1

2
SCOTLAND
Run or Used by		 Entries
Church of Scotland

Committee of the Magdalene Institute

Episcopal Church of Scotland

Family Care

Royal Scottish Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children

St. Margaret’s of Scotland

Salvation Army

Scottish Adoption Society

Scottish Council of Single Parents

Shelter Housing Aid

Social Services

 11

1

1

5

1

1

7

1

1

2

3
NORTHERN IRELAND
Run or Used by		 Entries
By Committee

Roman Catholic

Salvation Army

The Mayflower

 1

3

1

1
 
TOTALS:  
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WALES

SCOTLAND

NORTHERN IRELAND

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