Genealogy Chat

Ellis Shuttleworth, age 2, was taken from his parents because of their cruelty to him, for which they were both jailed. I would value opinions as to where he may have been placed immediately after. By 1939 he was living with a strange family in Withington (never adopted).
Were there such organisations as "social Services" or equivalent then, in Manchester.? Have tried the local childrens' home. Workhouse? Trouble is, most of the children's details are unavailable to the public.
Manchester history experts urgently required!

When was he born as not seeing him on the 1939 record

for ref
goal for cruel parents

PARENTS. Describing the case as one of tho worst they had ever known, the Manchester magistrates, Monday, sentenced Ellis Shuttleworth, 22. and his wife Doris, 19, of Thomas Street, Hulme, each to four months’ imprisonment for exposing two-year-old child
30 July 1937 - Shepton Mallet Journal - Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England

There are other threads about this

Please keep to one, Sandra

People will waste time looking for info you already have

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1377870

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1377789

Careful .........

he could very well still be alive.

You may be looking fro a living person who does not want his name spread all over the internet.


This is NOT a safe site, any name may be picked up by Google within minutes if not seconds!

Just his birth shows so was he then later adopted ??

OP states never adopted

Yes she did but I read that as not adopted by the people he was with in 1939

He could have been adopted later

Sandra hasn’t returned to any of her threads- just keeps starting new ones

Yes so it's seems

Maybe she should be messaged to advise how to manage her enquiries

Had two messages to say he was in withington. In 1939 but not adopted. Then later changed his name and emigrated

So with a change of name and going abroad he would still be a closed record on the 1939 register which is why he doesn’t show

Can’t see how we can help further with the enquiry

Personal files with social services would be a closed record I would think