Group finds more babies who died at Protestant Bethany Home

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Group finds more babies who died at Protestant Bethany Home
‘The only difference between us and the children in Tuam is that we had the names’
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A memorial carrying the names of 222 Bethany children who were buried in an unmarked grave at Mount Jerome cemetery between 1922 and 1949 was unveiled in 2014.
However, the Bethany Home Survivors Group said it recently uncovered the names of more children through the records of undertakers who interred the bodies in the paupers’ grave, and other sources.
In all, the group now believes that 247 children died in the Protestant children’s home .
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Many of the children’s death certificates carried the word “marasmus”, a form of severe malnutrition. The home also sent children to Northern Ireland, England, and the United States.
Denies responsibility
While the Bethany home was Protestant-run, the main Protestant churches have denied denied responsibility for it. The Church of Ireland said it “did not own or run the home” and, while it has three management committee minutes books, these were “found by a member of the public and deposited in the Representative Church Body Library for safe keeping”.
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Survivors say members of the Presbyterian and Methodist communities also took part in its running alongside evangelicals. The Bethany Home Survivors Group said it was disappointed in the response from individual churches and particularly in the State which blocked access to compensation through the Redress Board.