IRELAND
Galway Independent
A relative of a Tuam Home resident has called for a full exhumation of an unofficial graveyard at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home.
William Dolan is purported to have died in the Tuam Home in 1951, but no death certificate has been found for him. A relative, who wishes to remain anonymous, believes that he was adopted to North America, and wants the site examined to determine the truth.
Records also indicate William’s brother John died at the home in 1947.
Research conducted by Tuam historian Catherine Corless revealed that 796 children, most of them infants, died between 1925 and 1961 at the home. She discovered that there were no burial records for the children and that they had not been interred in any of the local public cemeteries, concluding that many of the children were buried in an unofficial graveyard.
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