Thread: Isabella Baird Winning

Looking for records for Magdalene Institution, Maryhill, Scotland
My GGG Grandmother, Isabella Baird Winning, was born in Woolstanton, Staffordshire,1858.
I have all details for Isabella her parents and beyond including census records , births, marriages and deaths.
What I am seeking is Isabella in the 1881 census.
I have found an Isabella Winning, born England, c1861 living in Lochburn House, Maryhill, Glasgow. She was aged 20 and a laundress. Lochburn House was a Magdalene Institution (please see link). It was originally set up for “fallen” women including drink, drugs and unmarried girls/women.
“The women in the asylum were generally termed as prostitutes; however, it should be noted that this term was used in a very loose manner encompassing not only women who sold sex for money but also single mothers, socialists, mill girls and girls dressed 'immorally'”
www.
theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSG00036
special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/nov2000.html
What I would really like is to find the records for the late 1870s, early 1880s for the inmates during this period. I have searched but only found reports for other years.
Isabella married in 1885 and I have her on all census after this.
Her Father was John Winning and he died in 1865. Her Mother was Agnes and she was born 1834 – I have her on the 1881 census living alone.
Any help in finding the Lochburn House (Magdalene Institution) would be much appreciated!

Finbar! I will go and look at this and keep my fingers crossed!

Thank you in advance for trying!

Hazlenut

Thank you very much for this link. Although they seem to be concentrating on the Irish Magdelene's I will email them as ask if they have any information about the Scottish Magdelene institutions.

It might be worth contacting this site they may have more data or put you n touch with someone:

Magdalene Institution

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSG00036

Hi Noggin

Thank you for this! I have seen the Glasgow story website before but not the 1864 report of the Magdelene. I will email and ask how I can get to read all of the document and also what other material they have.

Thank you!