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Re: Dorothy Keating sent to Canada 1894 aged 6
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 26 July 25 20:43 BST (UK) »
Have you thought of adding Dorothy Keating to the special interests  board for British Home Children ?


http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/dbsig/index.php?dbsig_num=1

Added:- Rev Thomas Seddon passed in 1898 on a journey to Canada with Home Children

Evening Standard
London, Greater London, England
Tue, 27 Sept 1898
Page 3

https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard/177518054/

https://britishhomechild.com/resources/sending-agencies-organizations/catholic-child-immigration-from-england-and-liverpool/

If you use facebook - there is a Home Children Canada Research Group.

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Re: Dorothy Keating sent to Canada 1894 aged 6
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 26 July 25 20:49 BST (UK) »
I didn't know about the special interest page so thanks for that, I'll take a look.
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Re: Dorothy Keating sent to Canada 1894 aged 6
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 27 July 25 11:32 BST (UK) »
There was a scheme organised in Manchester’s poorest neighbourhood ,the inappropriately named Angel Meadow,
The worst slum in Europe .
A centre was opened fot the children to get some education,food and clothing and for girls  shelter.
One of the American writer of Hymns - either Sankey or Moody, visited and he instigated the transporting of those children to American farms .There is no real record of how well they fared,but certainly there were accidents and tragedies.
I have no idea if their parents were consulted or even if the children knew their parents.They literally were street urchins ,begging and probably having to steal to keep alive.
The organisation was called “Charter Street Mission “.
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Re: Dorothy Keating sent to Canada 1894 aged 6
« Reply #21 on: Monday 28 July 25 11:00 BST (UK) »
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who contributed and shared their research expertise here.  Your time and efforts are appreciated.

I'm still interested in Dorothy and her life in Canada but it's just out of curiosity, the Keatings aren't in my family tree exactly.  A while ago I discovered that my 3xggrandfather had fathered a child with Mary Keating in 1892.  It was a bit of a shock as he was a 60-ish widower and she was nearly 25 years his junior.  A second boy was born but shortly died.  The three spent most of the next decade in the workhouse in Islington before Mary died of TB in 1902.  Their child took himself off to Canada after a stint in the army and now I imagine that he was looking for his half-sisters?  He stayed and made his own family. 

I didn't know anything about Mary's life before 1892 but found her, with first husband and three older children, in Islington in 1891 I was surprised and curious.  It was easy to track the lives of the two boys but the father seemed to disappear - I think he died in 1920 - as did Dorothy, until I found her on a ship bound for Canada.  Clearly something happened to shatter the Keating family but perhaps it was already fragmenting if Margaret had been placed in an orphanage by 1891!  I expect I'll never know the full story but it's a sad, sorry one.

Thank you again.   ;D
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Re: Dorothy Keating sent to Canada 1894 aged 6
« Reply #22 on: Monday 28 July 25 15:09 BST (UK) »
A sad tale indeed.

I have not been able to find any trace of Dorothy after her arrival in Montreal. I suspect that given her age she might have been adopted into a family there and had her surname changed.

Anyway, food for thought.
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Re: Dorothy Keating sent to Canada 1894 aged 6
« Reply #23 on: Monday 28 July 25 15:30 BST (UK) »


Have you traced the half brother in Canada ?  Perhaps an obituary might mention a name if he did make any contact.

He did use the Keating name on workhouse records but did he use the Keating name in Canada or did he perhaps use his biological fathers name ? 

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