British Home Children - Sullivan (1912)

[maisie666]

Hi - can anyone tell me if there is a way to trace what happened to British Home Children after they arrived in Canada please.  As they travelled over in 1912 there is no census information available yet.  Any ideas gratefully received.

Thanks very much
Maisie

[Treetotal]

This might help Maisie:

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/index-e.html

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/022-908.009-e.html

Carol

[KarenM]

Hi Maisie,

Do you have any names?

Karen

[KarenM]

Is it Fred and Matthew?

[lilybell]

 Another website to try www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tweetybirdgenea





Lilybell

[maisie666]

Wow - that was quick!  Yes, Karen, it is Fred (also known as Charles) and Matthew.  I think another brother, Thomas, was also sent seperately, but I haven't looked into that at all yet.  I know the ship (Corsican) and the date that Fred and Matthew arrived (July 1912), but would like to find any info about them from then on if possible.

Many thanks
M

[KarenM]

It looks like Matthew served in the First World War.  He lists Chas. Sullivan, his brother as his next of kin.  Chas is living in Quebec at the time, and Matthew signed up in Haileybury, Ontario

http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gat3/124387a.gif

You can order Matthew's full military file from Library and Archives Canada.

Karen

[maisie666]

Hi Lilybell - thanks for posting the link, but I think it is broken.  It takes me to British Military records on Ancestry - can I do a search for it? 

[KarenM]

The 1921 Canadian Census is due to be released June 1, 2013.  Not sure how long it will take for it to be made "available" to everyone as Library and Archives Canada will have to digitize it, but hopefully it won't take long.

Karen