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The Hazelbrae Barnardo Home Memorial
Peterborough, Ontario
unveiled on Wednesday September 28 2011
in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
commemorates the 9,000 Barnardo children brought to this home


for information on Hazelbrae please contact
The Hazelbrae Barnardo Home Memorial Group

The Ivy Sucee Story
Ivy Sucee along with John Sayers was instrumental in having this memorial erected


The Hazelbrae Memorial Unveiling Ceremony
 slide show of photographs taken by Lori Oschefski - place curser over top left corner for play button


These Home Children sent to Peterborough passed away and are buried in  Little Lake Cemetery 
They are linked here to online memorials which contain information on each child to date. 

 Ada Sophia Barker 1878-1896
 Rhoda Griggs 1888-1901
Esther Mary Rondeau 1872 1895
 Louisa Boyle 1877-1894
Alice M Rodgers 1881-1897
 Hetty Hart 1884-1896
 Alice Hartfield 1890-1909
Jane Buddle 1888-1898
Jane Wilson 1891-1902
Eleanor Thomas 1888-1904
Emily Coombe 1888-1908
Isabella Bidwell 1896-1920  
Emily Hilda Thompson 1900-1920
May Dorothy Phillips 1901-1920
Bert Emmerson 1909-1934
Mary Knight 1892-1911
Teresa Knott 1890-1911
Hilda Gertrude Wright 1898-1913
May Brindley - 1892-1913
Lillian Tarrant 1900-1913
Rosina Brockley 1903-1914
Alfred William Pennicard - 1900-1914  
Lena Bates 1901-1914 
Catherine Shaw - 1871-1889
Harriet Sophia Bealey - 1872-1888
Peter Devin 1874-1887
George Beagle 1868-1885
Ellen Robinson 1887-1896
Eliza Pope 1875-1893
Henritta Philamore 1869-1890
Mary Davis 1874-1888
Edith Burrows 1885-1896
Isabella Richards 1873-1889
Elizabeth Birch 1877-1889
Mary Lea Plant - 1895-1907 
Ivy Plant - 1896-1913 
Alice Curtis 1896-1908
Dorothy Hamilton Balfe Tait 1890-1904
 Cissy Lynds 1892-1905
Ellen Louisa Stokes - 1887-1903 
Alice Hastie 1887-1904
Ada Annie Pearch - 1889-1903
Ada  Annie Cobear 1891-1909 
Elizabeth Parker 1892-1903
Agnes Lloyd 1893-1909
Bertha Pickering 1879-1896  
William John Ashworth died August 15 1895 
Agnes Lowe  (died at 104 - buried with her husband Stanley Darling


Photographs of the Little Lake Cemetery and the Memorial Markers

taken October 2011 by Lori Oschefski


The names of the Hazelbrae Barnardo Home Children
 as they appear on the memorial

Please contact us for individual photos of child's name 
 please include name of child and  date of immigration

click on photo to see larger view 

The memorial service and unveiling of the 2 Memorial stones in the  Little Lake Cemetery
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Obituaries of children buried in the Little Lake Cemetery
published in editions of the "Ups and Downs"
1896-1903




My Aunt Katie Sanderson's name on the memorial
Aunt Katie was brought to Canada to the Hazlebrae Home in 1907 by the Dr. Barnardo Homes 
Kathleen May Sanderson Read
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British Home Children Descendants 
for more information on the British Home Children & to "claim" your home child 


A  formal petition to the Government of Canada asking for an apology
to the BHC and the BHCD's has been launched 

visit Apology Petition for details 

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