Nugent Care ArchiveLiverpool Hope University

Karen BackhouseFiona Hair

Karen BackhouseSpecial Collections LibrarianLiverpool Hope Universitybackhok@hope.ac.uk0151 291 2027

Three little Irish lads – before admission and after…

Isabella and Christopher S--- Before admission and after“Isabella, defect child, attending Defect School”

Some of Nugent Care's children leaving Liverpool for a new life in the new world in the 1920s

Father Nugent took the first group of 24 children to Canada on 18 August 1870 on the SS Austrian

Boys from Certified Poor Law School, Beacon Lane, Liverpool

Emigrated April 23rd 1903 by the Catholic Emigrating Association

Party of girls emigrated to Canada, 1903

Seventeenth Report of the Liverpool Catholic Children’s Protection Society, 1900

Letter from one of the girls who emigrated to Montreal, dated 1900

A memorial statue to the late Monsignor Nugent was erected in St. John’s Gardens in December 1906

The inscription reads;

“An eye to the blind, a foot to the lame, the Father of the pool”

A commemorative special edition of ‘Rescue Notes’, Christmas 1906

The arrival of Papal Legate, Archbishop Heenan with Canon Bennett on a Naval ship

Canon Bennett’s visit to Malta, July 1960

Lady Laycock, Governess of Malta talking with Archbishop Heenan

Diocesan OrphanagesAnnual Reports

Malta 1956-60

Helena SmartHelena SmartArchivist

Nugent Care Archive

Liverpool Record Office

Nugent Care Archive

• Records deposited consist of approximately 20 different organisations

• The general themes are Industrial Schools, Father Berries Homes and Child Emigration records

• Often existing records already at Liverpool Record Office-Nugent Care Archive cannot be viewed in isolation of wider collections

Liverpool Record Office

• Largest collection in the Nugent Care Archive is St. George’s Industrial School

• Patrick Shannon case shows how the records can be used and the research potential

Liverpool Record Office

Liverpool Record Office

Liverpool Record Office

Further research

•Nugent Care Collection lends its self to potential studies of child welfare, study of the philanthropic organisations in the city and child emigration to Canada•Uncatalogued collection-research requests can be made to Liverpool Record Office directly•Some records closed under the Data Protection Act 

Liverpool Record Office

Useful contacts

Helena Smart, Archivist, Liverpool Record Office• Helena.smart@liverpool.gov.uk• 0151 233 5874

Library and Archives Canada• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca• Jsayersji@sympatico.ca

Current and Future Collaborations

Karen BackhouseSpecial Collections LibrarianLiverpool Hope Universitybackhok@hope.ac.uk0151 291 2027

Helena SmartArchivistLiverpool Record OfficeHelena.smart@liverpool.gov.uk0151 233 5874