Sharing names - Heritage

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 98886

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mandy" <ExSlytherin at a...> 
> wrote:
> 
> Mandy:
> > Keep in mind too that this was just after the war, and there 
were 
> > many lost, orphaned and unclaimed children who were sent out to 
the 
> > countryside for saftey and who's parents then died in air 
raids.  
> > This obviously didn't happen to Tom Riddle Jr., but the system 
> would 
> > have been over loaded with orphaned children and stretched to 
the 
> > limits.
> 
> Geoff:
> Mandy, You've got your time frame wrong. Tom was about 15-16 at 
the 
> time of COS and that was 1942 (50 years prior to Harry's second 
year 
> which was 1992/3). So he was born about 1926/7. 
> 
> He might have gone to the countryside in the Second World War as a 
> teenager. We had a thread on Stockwell Orphanage and its 
evacuation 
> from London. It was part of a thread on Vauxhall Road and the 
diary 
> and began around message 86880.


Katrina:
On the other hand, that would mean he was born 8-9 years after the 
Great War.  Surely that would affect the orphanages as well?