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Family History Beginners Board / Re: death certificate small to read
« on: Tuesday 13 May 25 14:17 BST (UK)  »
hope not too much annoying but if I seem ungrateful I'm sorry. think emotional baggage from unkind institutional responsibility decisions have given families like ours a disproportionate disadvantage to function like average families,, like our peers in school,  workplace and neighbourhood. oh and I compare my extended family relatives who come down the line which didn't take the fallout of British Child emigration policy's most extreme adverse outcomes.
Understand most prefer to reject this as you describe "dark period of Australian history" .  I don't know of other British policy that had such a vast effect on our country and the security of its average population. This no doubt changes the path of history.  Did the decision makers including uk and Australian government and its local governments (including the law courts who rubber stamped the legal transfer of child ownership from the families to the state, who paid subcontractors eg Fairbridge child emigration society, one of fifty of these bodies responsible  for hundreds of thousands of insecure vulnerable due to sudden death of a parent etc,  children being "stolen " for good, by betraying families to feel it was a beneficial sacrifice to build up with their children's loves the British Empire.
 Welcome constructive feedback on some conclusions from my family's unusual treatment

two generations,  mum's and mine
born to extraordinary disadvantage I have found out about only when I was thirty years old. trying to make a better life  dad disclosed the child abuse mum received. She sat next to him in front of car but didn't add anything as I recall. over the final 15 years mum told me things but I considered my asking questions likely unwelcome due to obvious impact of Fairbridge on her.after she died I received the Fairbridge file.on Grandad. it is valuable telling history.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: death certificate small to read
« on: Tuesday 13 May 25 12:51 BST (UK)  »
that makes me smile, thanking you. There's much I want to know research wise but often struggle to order a lust of important questions. so unsure what your offer includes! sorry if I sound stupid, awkward. one thing I keep wishing to find out is circumstances at end of Reginald Stanley Coville Hallewell life. After grandma Ethel Mary Hallewell ne Knowles died 1969 in Birmingham the chemist shut forever as she had the registration and degree.
They'd been living in a nice detached or semi which mum and I went looking at in 2010s. significant as she left home and married a chap whose family had returned from their life in India owning tea business. he had an Indian father who won a card game, the.man he beat paid with his wife for a night!
anyway sorry I can't recall words i need. Grandad Reginald died 1974 I'm a poor man's tiny bedsit in Stratford upon Avon.  Fairbridge visited it after each of his paralysing strokes. mum only learned he was dead years later from his younger siblings visiting unexpected with.regs suitcase.  there is in mum's diaries mention of trying to see Hugh, a brother,  8n London but think lack of phone working prevented mum's trip to London seeing Hugh.  only just read the diary but mum sadly died 2016.
So sorry my paternal grandmother frim Cork.  think  got Irish way of avoiding scary possible truths.
Point I wonder. why and who made him travel to South Africa for heart surgery in 1970? was in newspaper when he died and I have photo of Reg and more patients in ward.  is Christian  Barnard hospital the famous fir first human heart transplant surgery. any ideas how it can find out more please? Thankyou.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: death certificate small to read
« on: Monday 12 May 25 18:11 BST (UK)  »
thank you for understanding.  its a lonely time because I don't know anymore descendants who ended up with Fairbridge repatriating and so reversing the emigration at age 21. there were 3 or 4 on Grandad's repatriation sailing. called Old Fairbridgians. he received no school lessons as was promised to our family.  is so frustrating they can disadvantage generations by doing such an irrational childcare for profits / foreign policy.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: death certificate small to read
« on: Monday 12 May 25 12:15 BST (UK)  »
 Thankyou for doing Blanche birth certificate translation.  Am very grateful.  I have a struggle trying to research even brief details of my family past.  Knowing that people are suffering worse currently gets me feeling guilty and ashamed to be losing time reading the masses of nfo about the Fairbridge Pinjarra w Australia scheme that my grandad  was emigrated to with no parental informed consent age 12 to 21.
I can't handle possibilities
of unwished for reseults if I did dna test. but he may also be my father due to SA acts he grew up with during 10 years forced labour in solitary confinement. when repatriated in 1937 he seemed to be forced into marriage with a pharmacist and their 2 children were split. mum being younger stayed at home with daily unnatural family SA. Her sister was luckier being sent to live in Lancashire for most of childhood.  safe from whatever he'd turned into. I believe an unsupervised police.jauling for 6 weeks age 15 was criminal sa
for buying a 3nd hand suit frim 2 older boys if he even did. Fairbridge did opposite of their contractual guardian  role,  he was a ward of state from age 12 in Middlemore emigration child hime til shipped to Australia 1929.
I can't accept such cruel policy isn't getting the attention needed fir the intergenerational trauma we suffer.  mum said Philip larkin poem  thus be  the  verse was true

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: death certificate small to read
« on: Sunday 04 May 25 00:59 BST (UK)  »
thankyou very much for the translation of my grandma and Great uncle's birth certificates. The strange thing is she is in my Grandad's birth certificate as his birth mother - not called Beatrice Kitson but Blanche Jeanne Kitson. I ordered the online pdf death certificate for Blanche who died age just 36. Her dad is named on death certificate as Benjamin  Shaw who was present  as she was dying in hospital.held her hand. ps. sorry typing is difficult  on my phone but cant find money for a decent screen like a laptop or tablet.  suffered decades coercive  control of my money. dead partner melted my laptop as put on cookers hot plate. always borrowed my laptop, car, meds etc.  He died of a dissecting anyeurism age 54 in January 2020 as emergency dept left him undiagnosed and died 8 hrs into waiting for a Dr to help him. hospital would compensate but Co op lawyer, no win no fee, told me we just cohabited so can't claim tho couple 22 years. sad I'm denied help for old fashioned expectations.. so in hardship. I'm a woeful Wednesday's Child!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: where&who's man1930 Toronto?
« on: Monday 07 April 25 14:58 BST (UK)  »
thank you.  Yes maybe is railway employee.  it seems a good warm working smart coat. I've not been to Canada maybe everyone wore similar type I don't know.  think is very cold sometimes.
Thankyou for link.
Actually Mary maud botten died but her niece who is 91 ish wants to know as they lived together.  Mary did not marry. In August 1929 exactly 00 months  after the trip she was pregnant and Barnardos shipped her to Scotland with girl guides to have baby boy then shipped her back to be a maid in Toronto.  The boy died last year. He knocked on her employer door some time as adult but she terrified lose job so denied being his mum. he had 2 kids. my friend is helping the son apply Barnardos records.  denied to the niece  as told not next of kin. my friend  thinks grandson  will need supply dna evidence.  I wonder we would like to know what happened in Scotland as she described it as very bad. ps she kept a few photos  only. one is a big long grandson institutional  building  with a supposed  shaped tree looks like a phallus. we want  to know where this austere looks place is presumably in Scotland.  she was birn in Kent.  when I locate posted photo will put here.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: death certificate small to read
« on: Monday 07 April 25 14:38 BST (UK)  »
thank you. yes please re offer look up births.

Ps To WILL COXEN.. its VERNON.  to verify is Vernon see my great uncle who died age 21 in ww2 bomber in 1942.
https://www.natwestgroupremembers.com/our-fallen/our-fallen-ww2/h/arnold-hallewell.html

I did not know there were other Rouen births. is one Blanche  Jeanne Kitson 's sister? I recall a census with Blanche (my supposed great grandmother) and I think overnight  guest named Blanche Swain Kitson.  is this one you mean? I think Vernon Harcourt Hallewell was only other person on that census.  it's weird both are Christian name Blanche.

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Ayrshire / Re: barrholm childrens home, largs
« on: Saturday 05 April 25 03:03 BST (UK)  »
hi did Barry Holme have any link to Barnardo's Homes? My elderly friend knows her dead auntie was at Kent Barnardos  hime until they shipped her all the way to Toronto Canada in 1922 ish.  However in 1929 she was made pregnant unconsenually and Barnardo's shipped her ti England then the Girl Guides took her to stay in Scotland.  we want to find out where in Scotland she went as she gave birth to a boy in August 1930 and was sent back to Canada to work as a maid with no freedoms.  please dies anyone know anything

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / where&who's man1930 Toronto?
« on: Saturday 05 April 25 02:40 BST (UK)  »
please can anyone tell me anything about this photo frim November 1929. we are helping the girl who was 17 then. We need to know was it Canadas Toronto railway station and who he is. we understand he probably accompanied her to Barnardo's conference at Hamilton. mayb he was a Minister? did that station go to Hamilton in 1929?  thankyou.

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