On Tuesday a report by
Martin McAleese may finally help to write the story of State involvement
in the Magdalen institutions, a shameful chapter in Ireland’s history So much of the story about the Magdalen laundries centres on names;
on identities lost, abandoned or forgotten. Thousands of girls and young
women went through their doors during two centuries. Each had her
Christian name changed by the nuns, her surname unused.
On her marriage to an English soldier after she had fled Ireland, Margaret McCarthy changed her surname to that of her husband, Frederick Permaul.
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On her marriage to an English soldier after she had fled Ireland, Margaret McCarthy changed her surname to that of her husband, Frederick Permaul.
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/justice-for-daughters-of-the-laundries-1.1253895