I hope that someone can explain to me why Catholic children would be placed into a Protestant Orphanage in Limerick....and another source mentions a Model School. Can someone help to steer me in the right direction to find records of this time period, the schools and the conditions of these institutions? Also a widowed mother of three wouldnt be forced to give the children to the homes would she?
Hi,
You should contact the Manager at Villiers Schools and Orphanages, Limerick info@villiers-school.com who may be of assistance in directing you to the proper source and the Representative Church Body, Churchtown, Couty Dublin email library@ireland.anglican.ie who may have records.
Your relatives may have been placed in the orphanage by order of the Courts, due to poverty.
Regards,
To the best of my knowledge the Model Schools were to train young people for farming or farming works there were two Model School's in Mungret a boys and a girls.
Attached some detail on the Model School in O'Connell Avenue - Limerick courtesy of Limerick Chronicle and Limerick Leader newspapers.
Regards,