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Spy…..no young girl having Breakdown during the war !!!

By Sue H |
General Genealogy

Good Morning everyone and Happy New Year to you all!

Well like most I’ve been burying myself in the 1921 census and trying not to go bankrupt!

Checking the DoB of a family member on that 1921 and  then a chat with cousins I discovered the alarming newspaper story. It’s dated 18th December 1943. It is my Great Aunt who I’ve tried main times to find out the reason she was in Rainhill. This is the reason!!! My older cousins said Nan had told them she was deemed a Spy !!!!She was known to everyone as Delia she actually lived in Rumney Road. She was a quite soul who became so instructionalized she died in Rainhill. She actually had a nervous break down because of this.  She was sent to Chester originally……..prison or hospital we are no sure???  Later on my grandmother moved to a pensioners flat in Lyme Close and Delia was moved to Rainhill. I was wondering if anyone knew how I could find what happened at the trial, if there would be records ……..not sure what kind……but anything that would give an account of what happened to her.  The picture is the only newspaper article I could find.  Your help would be gratefully accepted. Suexx

Talk to the Record Office, I don't know the dates they have Rainhill records for, but I do know they have some, fingers crossed they have yours.  Be sure to have the date of death to hand.

Hi Mary have done all that a few years back and followed up and advise that records could be found by contacting Whiston Hospital. It seems some of the records did get stored but only a selection and they weren’t sure where !!  It’s more the trial I am interested in ……if there was one.  One of my older cousins remembers she was sent to Chester first, but he doesn’t know whether it was a hospital or prison. Xx