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Thank you, all 

Anyway, here's an update, just in case this post ever proves useful to someone else searching for a relative sent to Canada by The Children's Society of London (CAS). 

What I found out is that CAS took boys from various Industrial Schools across the country, in my great-grandfather's case, The Essex Industrial School for Destitute Boys, and sent them to Canada.  These boys were usually teenagers. 

Now, CAS worked with Shaftesbury Homes, so that's why I checked with the LMA, but alas, no joy there: no records of him.

So, I contacted Barnardo's again to double check their records.  It was worth contacting them a second time as I got more information and a better explanation - this time, they confirmed that they Barnardo's does have 'some' CAS records (they double-checked for my great-grandfather), but because the organisation was so fragmented, they have very few. If you are lucky, they may have your ancestor's records, but the chances are quite slim.  It's worth a try.

Marjorie has basically said that my best hope are the Industrial School records.  I have checked the ERO's website and it looks like they have the school's admission records and discharge papers, so hopefully I will find the answers to all my questions there.

So in short, if you cannot find CAS records with Barnardo's, or CAS boys amalgamated with Shaftesbury Homes, then your only option is to search the IS records and hope you find who you are looking for there.

I will go to Chelmsford as soon as I can to see what I can find.

Hooray!!!

Finally, I managed to add.  Thank you Sandra and Bob.

Did you send Berlin Bob a message yesterday as suggested in another thread  - reply 6 ?


http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=763401.0


Quote :- If you still have a problem try sending Berlin Bob - Caretaker -  a pm to see if he can help you.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=655

Sandra

Thanks for your reply.  Yes, I did, Sandra.  He replied and said he had added me and to log out and back in again.  I have done all of those things multiple times and it still does the same thing.  I have sent another message to Bob.  Thought I would ask again in case I am doing something wrong.

There's a Sarah Haff 18 born Romford who is a general domestic servant with the Burrows family in West Ham.

Haff could be taken for Staff perhaps.  This is the family.

Edward Burrows 24
Maud 24
Alice 2
Arthur E 4 months

Thanks, that is possible.  She did enter Chatham Workhouse with 'single servant' on her admission record.

Hi!

I'm searching for a: Sarah Ann Eliza Staff on the 1891 Census, but I cannot find her anywhere. I can find her prior to that on the 1881 Census living with her parents, Alfred and Priscilla.  I can also find her later on in Chatham Workhouse, 1896, where she gives birth to her illegitimate son. Plus, later still where she gets married to a Joseph Garrard, has other children etc.  There is just this gap in her life and I'm trying to find answers.

She was born in Collier Row, Romford on 6th July, 1874.  Her father died (an agricultural labourer) in 1888 and from then on I imagine the family suffered hard times.  She had two children, Minnie and Walter before she was married.

Can anyone help fill in the gaps?  I'm trying to find her on the 1891 Census (to attempt to find something about her circumstances) with no success.

Thanks