Web Links and Research Sources
British Home Children sites
British Home Children Descendants - a site dedicated to the Descendants of British Home Children (BHC); Families of British Child Migrants (BCM); and all home children and child migrants still living, no matter where in the world. They are an extension of the British Home Children Mailing List, hosted by Rootsweb. Includes a growing data base of children.
Library and Archives Canada Home Child Database - a data base of shipping records of the children sent to Canada. This contains the shipping records for almost every Home Child brought to Canada between 1869 and 1930
Roots Mailing List - the British Home Children
Tweety Bird Genealogy - The British Home Children, contains may excerpts from the Barnardo's magazine "Ups and Downs" Its well worth placing your child's name in the search bar.
Brtish Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa - To date, over 100,000 names have been extracted from passenger lists and other records by BIFHSGO volunteers and added to the data base of children.
The Barnardo Hazelbrae Memorial Group
Genealogic - British Home Children
Tweety Bird Genealogy - Census showing home children in Canada
Home Children Canada (Pacific) - Run by Home Child Sidney Barker
Tweety Bird Genealogy - Listing of the Receiving Homes in Manitoba
MIDDLEMORE ATLANTIC SOCIETY, NB, CANADA
Bristol Home Children - The Bristol, children were only a small percentage of the 100,000 who were taken out by many different agencies including Barnardo's, Quarriers, both Church of England and Roman Catholic societies. From the city of Bristol, children went with Maria Rye, Annie Macpherson and the Bristol Emigration Society. This web site includes a data base of children from Bristol sent to Canada
Barnardo's - web site for their offices with contact information. Barnardo Home Children records may be obtained through this office.
British Home Children – Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Fairbridge Kids
Britain's Child Migrants
8,100 Home Children stayed in Stratford
Dr. Barnardo Barkingside Home
The Goldonian - Goldonian web was started in November 2001 Today it contains well over 4,259 files held in 169 folders with 1184 photo images on 998 pages that has 6,912 hyperlinks of the Dr. Barnardo homes in England
Young Immigrants to Canada
The National Children's Home - photo's
Canadian Center for Home Children - opened in 1999 and is located in Cavendish PEI, Contact: P.O. Box 931, Charlottetown, PE, C1A 7M4 EMAIL: cchc@eastlink.ca
Bristol Home Children
The Bristol home children were only a small percentage of the 100,000 who were taken out by many different agencies. Our Wish is that Bristol children will not be forgotten. We have recorded as much information as we could find in various records.
Thy Children Own Their Birth
Masterly thesis on the Canadian Home Children by a British PhD. You MUST have Adobe Reader installed to view it! (Warning--VERY large file, but worth it!)
Pier 21 Canada's Immigration Museum
Pier 21 collects stories from those with connections to the Pier and its history; more broadly, we also collect stories from Home Children during our time period (1928-1971).
CLAN - Care Leavers Australia Network
Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) is a support and advocacy group for people brought up in care away from their family as state wards or Home children raised in Children's Homes, orphanages or other institutions, or in foster care. CLAN is also for anyone who has a close family member who was placed in "care".
Quarriers Homes of Scotland
An informational site on Quarrier's Homes in Scotland. It contains photos of each cottage and changes made to the homes. There is a growing informational base about the Homes as well.
Child Migrants to Australia
A site with information and lists of child migrants
The British Home Children - The British Home Child Registry, Perry Snow
The Golden Bridge - Child migration from Scotland to Canada
Sisters of Providence - BHC Archival Database
The Sisters of Providence recently developed an archival database to help descendants of British "Home Children" trace their family history. Contains Catholic records between 1887-1891.
The Child Migrants' Trust (House of Commons Report)
The House of Commons Report on the The Child Migrant's Trust.
Archives Office of Tasmania - Brief Guide 5: Records Relating to Child Migrants
This is a list of records which contain information about post war child migrants including the records of the State Immigration Office.
On Their own - Britain's Child Migrants
Currently contains only a message board, a collaboration between Australian National Maritime Museum and National Museums Liverpool, UK.
Canadian Centre for Home Children
The Centre's founding arose out of frustration with Canadian and U.K. government departments refusing to cooperate in any way with his and other Home Children families in trying to identify and locate documents and actual living family members
Olive Tree Genealogy - Home Children
Olive Tree Genealogy / Home Children section
Automated Genealogy - Home Children Linking Project
A listing of links from records in the index to the 1901 Census to the Home Children records at the Library and Archives Canada web site. Names are as they appear in the 1901 Census.
Middlemore Atlantic Society
The beautifully designed NEW site for Middlemore Atlantic Society. Check out the great photo album!
Library and Archives Canada Home Child Database - a data base of shipping records of the children sent to Canada. This contains the shipping records for almost every Home Child brought to Canada between 1869 and 1930
Roots Mailing List - the British Home Children
Tweety Bird Genealogy - The British Home Children, contains may excerpts from the Barnardo's magazine "Ups and Downs" Its well worth placing your child's name in the search bar.
Brtish Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa - To date, over 100,000 names have been extracted from passenger lists and other records by BIFHSGO volunteers and added to the data base of children.
The Barnardo Hazelbrae Memorial Group
Genealogic - British Home Children
Tweety Bird Genealogy - Census showing home children in Canada
Home Children Canada (Pacific) - Run by Home Child Sidney Barker
Tweety Bird Genealogy - Listing of the Receiving Homes in Manitoba
MIDDLEMORE ATLANTIC SOCIETY, NB, CANADA
Bristol Home Children - The Bristol, children were only a small percentage of the 100,000 who were taken out by many different agencies including Barnardo's, Quarriers, both Church of England and Roman Catholic societies. From the city of Bristol, children went with Maria Rye, Annie Macpherson and the Bristol Emigration Society. This web site includes a data base of children from Bristol sent to Canada
Barnardo's - web site for their offices with contact information. Barnardo Home Children records may be obtained through this office.
British Home Children – Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Fairbridge Kids
Britain's Child Migrants
8,100 Home Children stayed in Stratford
Dr. Barnardo Barkingside Home
The Goldonian - Goldonian web was started in November 2001 Today it contains well over 4,259 files held in 169 folders with 1184 photo images on 998 pages that has 6,912 hyperlinks of the Dr. Barnardo homes in England
Young Immigrants to Canada
The National Children's Home - photo's
Canadian Center for Home Children - opened in 1999 and is located in Cavendish PEI, Contact: P.O. Box 931, Charlottetown, PE, C1A 7M4 EMAIL: cchc@eastlink.ca
Bristol Home Children
The Bristol home children were only a small percentage of the 100,000 who were taken out by many different agencies. Our Wish is that Bristol children will not be forgotten. We have recorded as much information as we could find in various records.
Thy Children Own Their Birth
Masterly thesis on the Canadian Home Children by a British PhD. You MUST have Adobe Reader installed to view it! (Warning--VERY large file, but worth it!)
Pier 21 Canada's Immigration Museum
Pier 21 collects stories from those with connections to the Pier and its history; more broadly, we also collect stories from Home Children during our time period (1928-1971).
CLAN - Care Leavers Australia Network
Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) is a support and advocacy group for people brought up in care away from their family as state wards or Home children raised in Children's Homes, orphanages or other institutions, or in foster care. CLAN is also for anyone who has a close family member who was placed in "care".
Quarriers Homes of Scotland
An informational site on Quarrier's Homes in Scotland. It contains photos of each cottage and changes made to the homes. There is a growing informational base about the Homes as well.
Child Migrants to Australia
A site with information and lists of child migrants
The British Home Children - The British Home Child Registry, Perry Snow
The Golden Bridge - Child migration from Scotland to Canada
Sisters of Providence - BHC Archival Database
The Sisters of Providence recently developed an archival database to help descendants of British "Home Children" trace their family history. Contains Catholic records between 1887-1891.
The Child Migrants' Trust (House of Commons Report)
The House of Commons Report on the The Child Migrant's Trust.
Archives Office of Tasmania - Brief Guide 5: Records Relating to Child Migrants
This is a list of records which contain information about post war child migrants including the records of the State Immigration Office.
On Their own - Britain's Child Migrants
Currently contains only a message board, a collaboration between Australian National Maritime Museum and National Museums Liverpool, UK.
Canadian Centre for Home Children
The Centre's founding arose out of frustration with Canadian and U.K. government departments refusing to cooperate in any way with his and other Home Children families in trying to identify and locate documents and actual living family members
Olive Tree Genealogy - Home Children
Olive Tree Genealogy / Home Children section
Automated Genealogy - Home Children Linking Project
A listing of links from records in the index to the 1901 Census to the Home Children records at the Library and Archives Canada web site. Names are as they appear in the 1901 Census.
Middlemore Atlantic Society
The beautifully designed NEW site for Middlemore Atlantic Society. Check out the great photo album!
Newspaper Archives
Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers
The titles and issues digitized in this project are rare, they are frequently the only surviving records for that particular newspaper, and they all provide a unique perspective on life in Nova Scotia.
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
The Australian Newspapers Beta service allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.
Google Historical Newspapers
Toronto Star - Images of the Past
The titles and issues digitized in this project are rare, they are frequently the only surviving records for that particular newspaper, and they all provide a unique perspective on life in Nova Scotia.
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
The Australian Newspapers Beta service allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.
Google Historical Newspapers
Toronto Star - Images of the Past
Provincial sites
Manitobia
Manitobia.ca is a perfect place in which to find information about the province and its people, synonymous with a rich archive of newspapers, first-hand accounts from letters, memoirs and diaries, drawings, maps and photos.
Ontario (Upper Canada) Genealogy Database Index
This site represents an ongoing effort to collect information related to the genealogy and history of Ontario County, Ontario.
The Ontario Vital Statistics Project - If you cannot find a registration on this site, then it is because it has not been transcribed. All the transcriptions are done by volunteers, out of their own pocket, on their own time. Also, even though as of July 1, 1869, all births, marriages and deaths were required to be registered, compliance was nowhere near 100%.
Manitoba Vita Statistics
Manitoba History
Searchable Online Data New Brunswick, Canada The links in this section are to useful, searchable online genealogical and historical information for those researching their New Brunswick roots. Most links are free online resources ( free ) however there are also links to some commercial resources ($) that were recommended by satisfied users.
Saskatchewan Homestead Index - many Home Children who were sent to Western Canada claimed land from the Land Dominions. Their homestead files can be ordered from this site. This site contains 360,000 references to those men and women who from 1872 to 1930 who obtained land from the Land Dominions Act.
Library and Archives Canada - Western Land Grants
British Columbia Archives Online Birth, marriage and death indexes for delimited time periods are searchable online.
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Indexed information for births, marriages and deaths in New Brunswick, as well as other digital archives. Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics
Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management is pleased to bring you this outstanding new resource for genealogical research: Births - 1 October 1908-present; Marriages - 1933-present; Deaths - 1958-present
National Archives Online
You will find in the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) resource online access to records in a small selection of historic databases preserved permanently in NARA.
Saskatchewan Vital Statistics Genealogy Index
Saskatchewan Vital Statistics now publishes a genealogical index of those births that occurred more than 100 years ago.
Canadian Divorce Records - LAC 1841 to 1968
Manitobia.ca is a perfect place in which to find information about the province and its people, synonymous with a rich archive of newspapers, first-hand accounts from letters, memoirs and diaries, drawings, maps and photos.
Ontario (Upper Canada) Genealogy Database Index
This site represents an ongoing effort to collect information related to the genealogy and history of Ontario County, Ontario.
The Ontario Vital Statistics Project - If you cannot find a registration on this site, then it is because it has not been transcribed. All the transcriptions are done by volunteers, out of their own pocket, on their own time. Also, even though as of July 1, 1869, all births, marriages and deaths were required to be registered, compliance was nowhere near 100%.
Manitoba Vita Statistics
Manitoba History
Searchable Online Data New Brunswick, Canada The links in this section are to useful, searchable online genealogical and historical information for those researching their New Brunswick roots. Most links are free online resources ( free ) however there are also links to some commercial resources ($) that were recommended by satisfied users.
Saskatchewan Homestead Index - many Home Children who were sent to Western Canada claimed land from the Land Dominions. Their homestead files can be ordered from this site. This site contains 360,000 references to those men and women who from 1872 to 1930 who obtained land from the Land Dominions Act.
Library and Archives Canada - Western Land Grants
British Columbia Archives Online Birth, marriage and death indexes for delimited time periods are searchable online.
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Indexed information for births, marriages and deaths in New Brunswick, as well as other digital archives. Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics
Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management is pleased to bring you this outstanding new resource for genealogical research: Births - 1 October 1908-present; Marriages - 1933-present; Deaths - 1958-present
National Archives Online
You will find in the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) resource online access to records in a small selection of historic databases preserved permanently in NARA.
Saskatchewan Vital Statistics Genealogy Index
Saskatchewan Vital Statistics now publishes a genealogical index of those births that occurred more than 100 years ago.
Canadian Divorce Records - LAC 1841 to 1968
Cemetery and Obituary finding aids
Canadian Obituaries Forum
Canadian Gravemarker Gallery
Volunteers collect, process, and completely photographed cemeteries from across Canada and place the photos online as valuable free-access resources.
Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid
The British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid consists of surnames, cemetery names and locations of more than 344,000 entries collected from records and headstone inscriptions associated with 264 cemeteries situated in the province of British Columbia, Canada and 2 from the state of Washington, USA.
Brandon Manitoba cemetery search aid
Deceased Online
Search registers by Country, Region, County, Burial Authority or Crematorium free of charge.
Canadian Gravemarker Gallery
Volunteers collect, process, and completely photographed cemeteries from across Canada and place the photos online as valuable free-access resources.
Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid
The British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid consists of surnames, cemetery names and locations of more than 344,000 entries collected from records and headstone inscriptions associated with 264 cemeteries situated in the province of British Columbia, Canada and 2 from the state of Washington, USA.
Brandon Manitoba cemetery search aid
Deceased Online
Search registers by Country, Region, County, Burial Authority or Crematorium free of charge.
Genealogical Sites
The National Archives - Finding your family in Canada
Free BMD -Birth Marriage & Death registration from England and Wales
Ontario Genealogy Data
Free UK Census Online
UK BMD - This site provides 2195 links to web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses.
Free UK Parish Registers Online
Family Search - Their records span billions of names across hundreds collections—including birth, marriage, death, probate, land, military, IGI extracted, and more.
Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks (OPCs)
The Ships List online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists. They have immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.
NFHS Passenger List Indexing Project
The Nanaimo Family History Society is creating an online index to the arrivals at Halifax and Quebec from 1900 to about 1921.
Our Roots - Canadas Local Histories Online
Our Roots is a library, archive, museum and school all in one. Check the collection to find Canadian local histories in French and English. EXCELLENT site!
Oxford Co Library-Databases
The Oxford County Library system has a Genealogy On line data base of births, marriages and deaths from local papers, past and present. Plus an extensive cemetery listing for the community.
FreeREG
Our objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K.
FreeCEN
This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns.
FreeBMD
FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.
British Genealogy Forum
Really easy to use! Lots of separate help and discussion forums on all sorts of family history topics, and of course, forums for all British counties.
Cumberland, Nova Scotia, GenWeb Page
Welcome to The Cumberland County GenWeb Page, dedicated to collecting and making available genealogical material related to Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
Missing Ancestors
This website contains information from various sources, relating to genealogy/family history during the 19th and early 20th century. It includes information on some emigrant children and poor or abandoned children.
UKBMD
This site provides 2170 links to web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses. A wide range of other indexes and transcriptions are also available.
National Archives-19th Century Poor Law Union and Workhouse Records
You can search and download documents from a number of Poor Law Unions across England and Wales, from series reference MH 12. Free access to the records.
Free BMD -Birth Marriage & Death registration from England and Wales
Ontario Genealogy Data
Free UK Census Online
UK BMD - This site provides 2195 links to web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses.
Free UK Parish Registers Online
Family Search - Their records span billions of names across hundreds collections—including birth, marriage, death, probate, land, military, IGI extracted, and more.
Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks (OPCs)
The Ships List online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists. They have immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.
NFHS Passenger List Indexing Project
The Nanaimo Family History Society is creating an online index to the arrivals at Halifax and Quebec from 1900 to about 1921.
Our Roots - Canadas Local Histories Online
Our Roots is a library, archive, museum and school all in one. Check the collection to find Canadian local histories in French and English. EXCELLENT site!
Oxford Co Library-Databases
The Oxford County Library system has a Genealogy On line data base of births, marriages and deaths from local papers, past and present. Plus an extensive cemetery listing for the community.
FreeREG
Our objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K.
FreeCEN
This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns.
FreeBMD
FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.
British Genealogy Forum
Really easy to use! Lots of separate help and discussion forums on all sorts of family history topics, and of course, forums for all British counties.
Cumberland, Nova Scotia, GenWeb Page
Welcome to The Cumberland County GenWeb Page, dedicated to collecting and making available genealogical material related to Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
Missing Ancestors
This website contains information from various sources, relating to genealogy/family history during the 19th and early 20th century. It includes information on some emigrant children and poor or abandoned children.
UKBMD
This site provides 2170 links to web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses. A wide range of other indexes and transcriptions are also available.
National Archives-19th Century Poor Law Union and Workhouse Records
You can search and download documents from a number of Poor Law Unions across England and Wales, from series reference MH 12. Free access to the records.
Other sites of interest
Researching UK Naval Records
Index of Old Occupations
This site is incredibly helpful when you are trying to determine what time of job your ancestor was doing at a time in history!
The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project
The County Atlas Digital Project is a searchable database of Ontario property owners' names which appear on the township maps in the county atlases.
Orphanages: Canada
A wonderful listing of known orphanages in Canada. Also listed are orphanages in the USA and Internationally.
Some Older Census Occupations
This list provides explanations about some of the old occupations listed in the UK censuses. (There are also databases re: history &genealogy of Amlwch, Anglesey, England.
Yesterday's Journey
As in any age, people have had to deal with documentation and Officials whether it be for good or bad. Yesterdays Journey records the names of those people (mostly Derbyshire England) who had dealings with those events and the paperwork involved.
Historic Hospital Admissions Project
Database of admission records to the HHARP website: the Royal Glasgow Sick Children’s Hospital. Covering the period 1883 (when the hospital first opened) to 1903.
How to Join a Lancashire County Library
Interested in access to a British public library? The Lancashire library system lets non-residents join for free. There are lots of excellent online resources there including historical newspapers and reference material.
Hidden Lives Revealed
Hidden Lives Revealed provides an intriguing encounter with children who were in the care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th Century Britain.
The Workhouse
The Workhouse often conjures up the grim world of Oliver Twist, but its story is also a fascinating mix of social history, politics, economics and architecture.
The People of the Abyss
The poor in London as seen by writer Jack London, written in 1902. An excellent reference for researching poverty in the 20th century.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
A select list of records which can be found at Department of Commerce, State Records Authority of New South Wales.
National Library of Australia
Researchers might like to look at this new National Library of Australia website, Trove. Try a search on Fairbridge or child migration.
Two voyages
While the separation from home and family was hard, many children left behind a life of hardship and neglect. Watch two short dramatisations following the voyages of child migrants from different eras.
Fields of Memories - The Scheyville Training Farm and Migrant Accomodation Centre
From 1911 Scheyville farm trained British boys for work on Australian farms. Between 1911 and 1939, 5,595 'Dreadnought Boys' arrived in NSW. Most were trained for two or three months at Scheyville before assignment to a farm.
Fairbridge Kids
Fairbridge Kids is the web presence of The Old Fairbridgians' Association of Western Australia. The Association was formed in 1930 and served, and still does serve, as a benevolent organisation with its main mission to enhance the welfare of Old Fairbridgian's - those children whose home for part of their lives was at the Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School at Pinjarra in Western Australia.
Old Boys & Girls Reunion Club
The intention of this web page is to provide access to photos both of the UK and Australia, and to give old Barnardo boys and girls the opportunity to contribute to the photo album, so we can all share our memories.
Rhodesian Kingsley Fairbridge Scholars Reunion Pages
Any ex-Fairbridge pupils from any country are welcome to share their contact details, and a Brief History. Page contains photos and stories
Child Migrants to Australia
A site for Child Migrants to Australia and Supporters to lobby for compensation
Map of London - 1878
Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs; Or, Stanford's Geological Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs in 1878.
Index of Old Occupations
This site is incredibly helpful when you are trying to determine what time of job your ancestor was doing at a time in history!
The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project
The County Atlas Digital Project is a searchable database of Ontario property owners' names which appear on the township maps in the county atlases.
Orphanages: Canada
A wonderful listing of known orphanages in Canada. Also listed are orphanages in the USA and Internationally.
Some Older Census Occupations
This list provides explanations about some of the old occupations listed in the UK censuses. (There are also databases re: history &genealogy of Amlwch, Anglesey, England.
Yesterday's Journey
As in any age, people have had to deal with documentation and Officials whether it be for good or bad. Yesterdays Journey records the names of those people (mostly Derbyshire England) who had dealings with those events and the paperwork involved.
Historic Hospital Admissions Project
Database of admission records to the HHARP website: the Royal Glasgow Sick Children’s Hospital. Covering the period 1883 (when the hospital first opened) to 1903.
How to Join a Lancashire County Library
Interested in access to a British public library? The Lancashire library system lets non-residents join for free. There are lots of excellent online resources there including historical newspapers and reference material.
Hidden Lives Revealed
Hidden Lives Revealed provides an intriguing encounter with children who were in the care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th Century Britain.
The Workhouse
The Workhouse often conjures up the grim world of Oliver Twist, but its story is also a fascinating mix of social history, politics, economics and architecture.
The People of the Abyss
The poor in London as seen by writer Jack London, written in 1902. An excellent reference for researching poverty in the 20th century.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
A select list of records which can be found at Department of Commerce, State Records Authority of New South Wales.
National Library of Australia
Researchers might like to look at this new National Library of Australia website, Trove. Try a search on Fairbridge or child migration.
Two voyages
While the separation from home and family was hard, many children left behind a life of hardship and neglect. Watch two short dramatisations following the voyages of child migrants from different eras.
Fields of Memories - The Scheyville Training Farm and Migrant Accomodation Centre
From 1911 Scheyville farm trained British boys for work on Australian farms. Between 1911 and 1939, 5,595 'Dreadnought Boys' arrived in NSW. Most were trained for two or three months at Scheyville before assignment to a farm.
Fairbridge Kids
Fairbridge Kids is the web presence of The Old Fairbridgians' Association of Western Australia. The Association was formed in 1930 and served, and still does serve, as a benevolent organisation with its main mission to enhance the welfare of Old Fairbridgian's - those children whose home for part of their lives was at the Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School at Pinjarra in Western Australia.
Old Boys & Girls Reunion Club
The intention of this web page is to provide access to photos both of the UK and Australia, and to give old Barnardo boys and girls the opportunity to contribute to the photo album, so we can all share our memories.
Rhodesian Kingsley Fairbridge Scholars Reunion Pages
Any ex-Fairbridge pupils from any country are welcome to share their contact details, and a Brief History. Page contains photos and stories
Child Migrants to Australia
A site for Child Migrants to Australia and Supporters to lobby for compensation
Map of London - 1878
Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs; Or, Stanford's Geological Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs in 1878.
Online Excerpts of Books on the Home Children
Nation Builders: Barnardo Children in Canada
By Gail Helena Corbett
The Little Immigrants: the orphans who came to Canada
By Kenneth Bagnell
The Golden Bridge: young immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939
By Marjorie Kohli
The Official Year-book of the Church of England
By Church of England, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Thank you to Dr. Barnardo
Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 By Roy Parker
Labouring children: British immigrant apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 By Joy Parr
Depicting Canada's children By Loren Ruth Lerner
Record of Christian Work Volume 17 -Dr. Barnardo's Institutions for Homeless and Destitute Children
By Gail Helena Corbett
The Little Immigrants: the orphans who came to Canada
By Kenneth Bagnell
The Golden Bridge: young immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939
By Marjorie Kohli
The Official Year-book of the Church of England
By Church of England, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Thank you to Dr. Barnardo
Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 By Roy Parker
Labouring children: British immigrant apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 By Joy Parr
Depicting Canada's children By Loren Ruth Lerner
Record of Christian Work Volume 17 -Dr. Barnardo's Institutions for Homeless and Destitute Children
Home Children Facebook Groups
British Home Children/Child Migrants in Canada
Families of British Home Children / British Child Migrants
British Home Children
British Home Children of Chatham Kent, Ontario, CA
RECLAIM OUR BRITISH HOME CHILDREN
Families of British Home Children / British Child Migrants
British Home Children
British Home Children of Chatham Kent, Ontario, CA
RECLAIM OUR BRITISH HOME CHILDREN
