Hawker and Hall Family Trees

Notes

Information supplied by Stephen Wright in an email dated 17 Feb 2013
born in Deerhurst, and the parish register entry is as follows:
Record_ID: 373611
Entry_Number: 1416
Year: 1906
Month: Aug
Day: 26
Parents_Surname: HAWKER
Child_Forenames: Doris Beatrice
Fathers_Forenames: George Thomas
Mothers_Forenames: Edith Florence
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Captain's Hill Tewkesbury
Occupation: Carter
Officiating_Minister: Edw Chinery Parmenter Vicar
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P112 IN 1/12
Page_Number: 177
Parish_Chapel: Deerhurst
From the birth certificate of her daughter, Doris Beatrice Hawker was a nurse at the mental hospital of Gloucester Street, Wooton-under-Hedge (sic), Gloucestershire in 1929 but the birth was at Cleveland House, Vicarage Road, Wolverhampton. There is a reference to Cleveland House, in the "Wolverhampton Red Book for 1942-3", where it is described as "A hostel and maternity home for women and girls". It was a place where young unmarried women would go to have their illegitimate babies.
In fact the information on the birth certificate is incorrect; the Gloucester Street address was in fact the private residence of Doris Beatrice and her parents and is Wootton-under-Edge rather than Wooton-under-Hedge . The mental hospital where she was a nurse was at a different address, possibly in Wooton.