British Home Children - 1890

[J.J.]

This has phone and fax as well...
http://www.csci.org.uk/registeredservicesdirectory/RSSearchDetail.asp?ID=0000048376&Type=

[M.T.H]

Nice one! Thanks J.J.

I will get in touch with them and see what they say.

I googled the address and found that the Catholic Children's Rescue Society (Salford) have their own website;

http://www.ccrsorg.co.uk/index.php

Cheers,

Mick

[Carleton]

Hi,

About 10 days ago I posted a message to Rootschat concerning British Home Children and through my own fault it wasn't posted.  That'll teach me to do things late in the evening!   

I have listed a website below. 

http://www.orphantrainriders.com/HomeChild/HomeIndex.html

Please take the time to read through it and click on all the links.  The letters from Home Children posted by their descendants are more than touching.  Also, on the opening page you will notice the name 'John Sayers - Requests for Records'.  A busy man, to be sure, but a helpful one.  It worked for me.  My maternal grandmother was a Home Child who came to Quebec, Canada, in 1892 aboard the Circassian with Father Seddon's group.

Try writing him.

Dorothy
Ottawa

[M.T.H]

Many thanks Dorothy,

Interesting to hear that you are a descendent of a home child and that you managed to locate her records, I will make a note Mr Sayer's contact details.

I was searching the Canadian Archives online earlier today, and think that I might have found Mary Ellen in Canada!!!

There is this death index (bottom of page), note - my Mary Ellen was born in 1884.

http://tinyurl.com/ypnx9e

and this entry in 1913-1925 looks interesting too...

 http://tinyurl.com/2htjbq

Does anyone have any idea what this second document might be?

Thanks,

Mick

[J.J.]

Looks like a property transaction, Mick... You can send for a copy for the details...and good for you to find her! Nice detective work!

MacDougall may have been a landsman for the Railway...buying up property in
speculation of the railway making the site popular.  J.J.

[M.T.H]

Hi J.J.

I thought it was her, but now I'm not so sure.......

I just did another search of the online archives, this time with only the surname and I got this hit........

http://tinyurl.com/342rs8

Hmmm......

Mick

[J.J.]

A little blurb about them here, and I'm sure you can find out more if you
need to  
 I knew about them purchasing land and then reselling it ( at a premium, mind you...Look! the railway is nearby  )

excerpt:  Lacking land grants the GTP, through the Town and Development Company, purchased land along the main line and developed "towns in precise patterns, at a distance of not under seven miles or more than fifteen miles from each other.

http://railways-atlas.tapor.ualberta.ca/cocoon/atlas/Chapters-9-1/

ooops, sorry we must have put our posts up at the same time, I missed it!
awe....too bad....but look at what a good searcher you are, now!

[M.T.H]

ooops, sorry we must have put our posts up at the same time, I missed it!
awe....too bad....but look at what a good searcher you are, now!

 

Maybe Richard is another brother..........maybe he's her son? 

Maybe I'm clutching at straws here? 

Mick

[Carleton]

You're welcome, Mick.

The two URLs you mentioned are interesting.  Why don't you write the Archives and see if you can get mor information on the sale of that property to M.E. Corless.  It's certainly worth a try.

Keep the list posted as to what you find out. 

Best of luck with your research!

Dorothy