Re: Home Children to Canada

[eeyores4me]

I started to read that earlier its very sad

[bucks]

Hi everyone.

My paternal grandmother was a Quarrier home child.  She and her 3 sisters were "given" to William Quarrier's village at Bridge of Weir in 1906.  My grandmother and one sister arrived at Fairknowe home in Brockville, Ontario in 1908 on the SS Ionian.  Another came to Canada in 1910 on the SS Grampian.  And the final girl came over in 1911.  Only the one sister who arrived in 1910 returned to Scotland ( a very rare occurence) in 1915 on the SS Pretorian. 

There is a lot of information available from the National Archives in Ottawa and on-line you can find many years of ship's lists.  As well, Quarriers Canadian Family has a lot of information to give out.

I wrote Quarrier's at Bridge-of Weir and they sent me the 2 page report from the original log book from when these 4 McTurk girls were taken from the Govan Poorhouse to Quarrier's Village on June 11, 1906.  It cost next to nothing; only postage I believe.

Find the book The Little Immigrant and it will tell you how difficult a life these children had.  Miserable!!!

Good luck.

sue from Ontario

[J.J.]

sue, welcome to rootschat.. Your Glasgow query has had answers... You have lots of information waiting for you here!!! ( there may have been others!)
Wonderful bunch!
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,301930.0.html

[J.J.]

I'm not sure if I had posted this on here for you...
I am adding rootchat BHC urls to the BHC thread in resources, here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,266235.0.html 
(Let me know if there are any mistakes....) It is divided in two as it was too long for one reply...I eventually will probably have to move it all to it's own area...
If anyone sees any queries referring to Home children in Canada that are not on the list, please let me know so that I can add them... Don't post yourselves, as it would get too cluttered, sorry...

Same for the other resource thread further down re: Homes & institutions on censuses...If you find one, let me know, and I will post...OR, feel free to post as long as you plan to find a LOT of them within the same Province..... and have found & listed the adjacent url information as well. I have only a few per reply, right now, myself....but then will modify to add more when I find them.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,284296.0.html

all the best, J.J.

[J.J.]

Hi, Sue...did you find all your children on the censuses? I see that Matilda was already adopted by 1911...She kept her name, so that was something as far as research goes...Often they are lost to a new surname ( sometimes forename as well) ...Monica found you a lot of information...Now the rest of the children need to be accounted for...
If ever you have any questions re: Canadian side, just start a new thread....with BHC  to the left in the subject line...
all the best to you all!!!!
J.J.

[BAK51]

Hello -

Where can I go from here?  I've found my grandmother & her sister on separate passenger lists from Liverpool to Canada, destined to Maria Rye, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario in 1895.  They were 15 & 13 when their father died a few weeks earlier (mother already deceased).  I found the sister in the 1901 census in Toronto and my grandmother was in New York State by the 1905 state census.  What agency should I contact, what more can I find out about their lives until they were "on their own"?

BAK

[showell]

New on here but I've been researching a relative who was a Home Child sent to Canada in 1908 by Middlemore Homes in Birmingham.  The Middlemore records are in the archives in Birmingham Library and are free to search in the secure room, only thing is records are closed for 75years so only useful for early records.  Records are'nt indexed by name but if you know the year the child was sent things are relatively easy to find and the staff are very helpful.

[Soltown]

Between 1869 and the 1940's nearly 150,000 children were shipped to Canada, South Africa and Australia (mostly to those last two countries between 1920s and 1970s). Many were not orphans but were deserted or sent without parental consent.

Listed below are the best sites to use if you have a child in your tree who you cannot find a death for or have lost complete track of.

There are many children in the database who were born and sent in between censuses so do not appear on any UK Census so it is worth searching the database even if you do not have a missing ancestor as you may find a relative that you did not know existed.

www.britishhomechild.org

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/001015-100.01-e.php

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tweetybirdgenealogy/

Please help raise awareness of this subject by visiting these sites and searching for your family names or just simply reading some of the articles.

Thanks

George

[J.J.]

If you haven't this information already, Karen shows you what to do next...to find them on the ship's lists...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,192163.0.html