Children's Homes by Peter Higginbotham

Author:Peter Higginbotham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
ISBN: 9781526701374
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2017-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

Sisters of Mercy

The organization that became the Sisters of Mercy was founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley, an Irish Catholic laywoman. With the help of a large inheritance, she erected a ‘House of Mercy’ on Baggot Street, Dublin, which provided shelter and education for poor women and girls. On the advice of the Archbishop of Dublin, she established a religious order to develop the work, with herself and two colleagues becoming the first Sisters of Mercy in 1831. In 1839, the Order opened its first convent in England, in Bermondsey, South London. Others followed in Handsworth, near Birmingham, in 1841 and in Mount Vernon, Liverpool, in 1843.

From 1869 to 1876, Blackbrook House in St Helens, Lancashire, housed the Liverpool Catholic Girls’ Reformatory, run by the Sisters of Mercy. It later became an Industrial School in the charge of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary, then an Approved School run by the Daughters of Charity.

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