Catalogue description Bussage House of Mercy

Minute books, annual reports, appointment of trustees and other documents

Bussage House of Mercy, Bussage, Gloucestershire

St Michael's Home, Bussage, Gloucestershire

Presented October 1959 by Lt.-Col. A. B. Lloyd-Baker, chairman of the trustees of the dissolved trust.

Bussage House of Mercy, called from 1932 St. Michael's Home, Bussage, nr. Stroud

The Home was founded in 1851 by the Rev. Robt. Suckling, first Vicar of Bussage, Bishop Armstrong of Grahamstown, and Mrs. Grace Anne Poole, at the latter's expense, to house 26 girls, aged 14-18 years, whose home background necessitated moral and domestic training. On the death of Mrs. Poole, who had acted as Mother Superior, in 1900, the Wantage Community of Sisters undertook management. However, in 1947 they withdrew their Superior and Laundry Sister and the Home was forced to close down in 1949. It was given to the Society of the Incarnation of Birmingham for charitable work of the Church of England and in 1959 the work of the trustees was completed when the proceeds of the trust were paid into the Church Moral Aid Association.

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