Devon and Exeter Female Home and Penitentiary
Devon and Exeter Female Home and Penitentiary. Later known as the Devon and Exeter Female Home of Refuge and then Home of the Good Shepherd,
Situated in Holloway Street, Exeter.
See also the Reformatory School for Girls, Exeter for juvenile female offenders
1819 Founded
1827 AGM. Average of 22 inmates.[1]
1834 AGM. Currently 38 inmates.[2]
1847 AGM. Currently 46 inmates.[3]
1861 Susan Northcote is Matron and Mary Ann Carter the Sub-matron. One servant. Thirty female inmates aged 18-29.[4]
1871 Ann E. Macdonald is Matron and Mary A. Carter is Sub-matron. Two servants. Thirty-six female penitents aged 18-36.[5]
1881 Amelia Edbrooke is Matron and Eliza Verture(?) is Assistant Matron. One servant. Thirty-three female inmates aged 15-35.[6].
1891 Amelia Edbrooke is Matron with her niece and three assistants. Twenty-one female inmates aged 16-33.[7]
1897 AGM. Devon and Exeter Female Home of Refuge. Twenty-two inmates. [8]
1901 Jane Rounsfell? is Matron. One staff. Fifteen inmates.[9]
1906 Edward Steel Perkins, Surgeon; Robert H. Lock, Secretary; Bessie Agnes Huddy, Matron.[10]
1911 Bessie Agnes Huddy is Matron. Fifteen inmates listed aged 16-27.[11]
1922 AGM. Home of the Good Shepherd.[12]
1948 Came under the control of the NHS
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Saturday 20 October 1827
- ↑ Exeter Flying Post - Thursday 06 November 1834
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Saturday 18 December 1847
- ↑ 1861 census
- ↑ 1871 Census
- ↑ 1881 Census
- ↑ 1891 Census
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Thursday 16 December 1897
- ↑ 1901 Census
- ↑ 1906 Kelly's Directory of Devonshire: Exeter
- ↑ 1911 Census
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Monday 22 May 1922