Heworth Moor House, York

The records are divided into 3 series as follows:

• Committee papers, 1914-1998
• Superintendent's papers, 1951-1995, including admission and discharge books 1954-1993 & register of baptisms 1947-1966
• Correspondence, 1952-1989

When it opened in 1947, Heworth Moor House was both the York based branch of the York Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare and its second mother and baby home. Funded by local authority grants, the Family Offering and regular payments from those staying there, the home housed about ten women at any one time, supervised by a live-in superintendent, usually a trained midwife, who was aided by a deputy-superintendent from the mid 1960s. Like the York Diocesan Maternity Hostel, it was run by an executive committee, which met once a quarter, and a House Committee meeting monthly. As demand for traditional mother and baby homes decreased the home took increasing numbers of single women with children awaiting council accommodation. In 1988 Heworth Moor House amalgamated with the St Mary's Home Charity, but closed in 1994.