Jersey Island Orphanage

The jersey archive holds the admission registers for the jersey home for girlsjersey female orphans home from 1862 1959 and the jersey home for boys from 1862 1959.

Jersey blue blueberry. In 2010 jerseys chief. The haut de la garenne childrens home in jersey. Its mostly been recognised in recent public memory for its potatoes lifehouses and the fact that its basically in france but everyone speaks english.

One man who was sent to sacre coeur orphanage in the early 1940s said the nuns there were. Of attacks at haut de la garenne and at a home on the island run by french catholic nuns the sacre coeur orphanage. There is 100 year block to access the registers.

British police are to dig for six childrens bodies at a former orphanage on the channel island of jersey where the remains of a child were found under the floor at the weekend. Father leon le grand rector of st thomas who had came to jersey in 1899 was very concerned with the social struggle in st helier for poorer working parents and saw the need to establish a catholic run day care for children and fund an orphanage for catholic orphans. The sacre coeur orphanage in rouge bouillon was founded in the early 20th century.

Before that social worker simon bellwood had made a complaint about a dickensian system where children as young as 11 were routinely locked up for 24 hours or more in solitary confinement in a secure unit where he worked. Wilfred krichefski a jersey senator and tv. They also hold the jersey industrial school records from 1867 1984.

Statements were read to the jersey care inquiry into historical abuse at island child care institutions.