Vauxhall Road again

[gbannister10 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 87236

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, annemehr at y... wrote:

Annemehr:
> First of all, thanks so much for the research you've been doing!  As
> one of the first adherents to Carolyn's theory that Riddle/Voldemort
> actually has some powerful Muggle backers, I've been reading with
> extreme interest. (BTW, I've playfully dubbed her theory
> D.I.A.R.I.S.T.: Dual Intrigue: Amagical Rich Influence Slytherin's 
Tom)
> 
> But I'm afraid I have a complication for you.
> 
> Shaun:
> 
> > Several people have already mentioned the Spurgeon Orphanage 
> > which was very close to the area in question<snip>
> > 
> > So if Tom Riddle had wound up in that orphanage, it's 
> > perfectly plausible he could have gone to Vauxhall Road.
> > 
> > The Spurgeon Orphanage was evacuated on September 1st 1939, 
> > and the children were move to Reigate.
> > 
> > If Tom was born in 1927 (which is the Lexicon date), he 
> > would have potentially started at Hogwarts in 1938. I don't 
> > think we have any indication on when the diary was purchased 
> > - but it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume he might have 
> > obtained it around the time he started at Hogwarts, even if 
> > he didn't enchant it until a little later.

<Snip>
 
> > Now - the question has been asked why would Tom have wound 
> > up at an orphanage in London - some people feel it would 
> > make more sense for him to have been in an orphanage nearer 
> > where he was born and on the face of it that seems quite 
> > reasonable.
> 
> Annemehr:
> 
> I don't see this as much of a problem.  If there was no orphanage
> particularly near Little Hangleton that could have taken the infant
> Tom, they could have sent him almost anywhere, depending on who took
> on the task and who they knew with connections to an orphanage. 

Geoff:
I've been digging around a little bit re Stockwell Orphanage and I 
think I found the same source which Shaun mentioned, the 1881 census 
at:
 
http://chrisb.4ce.co.uk/schools_site/create_pdf.php?ID=1339

In there, I skimmed and found that, although the great majority of 
names were from the London area and from areas then in Surrey, 
Middlesex etc which finished up in London, there were some from 
places such as Luton, Newbury, Cambridge, Oxford, Swindon, 
Southampton - all between 45-80 miles away and even one from Glasgow. 
So Little Hangelton is still in the frame, though I still feel it has 
a West Country feel about it, rather than the north, speaking as 
someone who grew up in the north myself.

I am still following upone or two lines about Vauxhall Road itself 
and will hold commenting until later.

Geoff