George Casbon
Phoebe Grey
British Home Children Stories
Stories on the British Home Children Descendants site
Phillip J Howard
A National Children's Home Child
Alexander Angus
A Quarrier Child and a WWI Veteran
Arthur Lankshear
A Fegan's Home Child and a WWI Veteran
Frederick Humby
A Watts Naval School Child who died on the Titanic
Percy Bint
A Fegan's Home Child and a WWI Vereran
Thomas Gordon Brocklebank
An Ellinor Close Farm Home Child
Susan Jane Robinson
A Maria Rye Home Child
Robert McCaughan
Former child migrant (Australia) found helping others saved him
Teresa Fisher
A Dr. Barnardo Home Child who came to Canada in 1897 from Ireland
Stephen and Leonard Leggins
Barnnardo children, Stephen enlisted with the Candian Overseas Expeditiary Force
Alex and Samuel Kerr
Alice Violet (Lulu) Squires
BOOK - British Home Children: Their Stories
Compiled by the British Isles Family History Society of Ottawa (BIFHSGO)
Alice & Edward Latham
Brought by the Dr. Barnardo Homes 1913
Earnest Brown
Brought in 1910 by Dr. Barnardo's
Maggie & Mary Kerr
Brought by Dr. Barnardo's
William Preston Davis
brought by the Dr. Barnardo Homes, married Maggie Kerr
Dan Irving - Violin symbolizes brush with slavery
Thomas Merchant Crewe Joslin
Minnie E. C. JOSLIN, John J. C. JOSLIN and Thomas M. C. JOSLIN were placed in the care of Dr. Barnardo's home in London in July 1906, They were sent, separately to the USA and Canada as child migrants. It is now only possible to relate the story.
Gold Quartz - The Autobiography of an Early Home Child
Rev. W. Bowman Tucker, M.A., Ph.D. was one of the "Home Children", shipped over to Canada from England in 1871. He worked on an Ontario farm, became a Methodist Minister, and founded The Montreal City Mission in 1910.
British Home Child George James Robbins
In 1905 George James Robbins became a British Home Child. This is a collection of photographs, and a brief summary of the family. Includes many interesting excerpts from letters contained in the Catholic Emigration Association's records from England.
Orphans of the Empire by Paul Ham
Between 1913 and 1969, thousands of children from Britain’s slums were sent to school in Australia for a better future. Some found one, but many ended up victims of sexual abuse and child labour. © The Sunday Times July 2007
Migration Memories - Ian Bayleff
Ian Bayleff left the UK on 6th Feb, 1955. He arrived Sydney 14th March, 1955. This page is a place of his memories of Fairbridge in Molong. Fascinating reading.
Migration Memories - Jan Barby
Jan Barby was a child migrant in 1954 with Fairbridge Farm School in Australia. A short piece about her memories.
A Home Child in Grey County
This is a virtual exhibit at Grey Roots Museum and Archives.
Miracles on the Internet
This article was published by Rootsweb and selected to be included in their Great Genealogy Stories collection. It was written and submitted in July of 2000. Since that time, I have traveled to both New Zealand and to Scotland to meet family members of my grandfather, James William Blance. James and his four sisters and brothers were all British Home Children sent by the Quarrier Home in Bridge of Weir, Scotland to Canada. The letters mentioned in this story can be read on this web site. Just find John Hay Blance in the BHC database and they are printed as part of his story.
Walk Towards the Gallows:
The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899
This is a beautifully written story, and a true tragedy. This is the darker side of the British Home Children scheme, assessing how and why Hilda Blake bought a gun and murdered her mistress and providing rich detail about the life she led which help explain, though not condone, the actions that led her to the gallows.
Alfred Roland Mist - A Fegan Home Child
Rebecca Ann Thomas - A Barnardo Child
Alexander Angus
Albert George Jex - A Dr. Barnardo Child, LITTLE Albert Jex had the kind of start in life you wouldn’t wish for a child. The product of a mysterious and hushed-up liaison, he was taken under the wing of the Dr Barnardo’s charity at the age of three because his mother was blind and had no way of earning a living.
Fredrick John Hothersoll Foster - November 2006 Ancestors in the Attic episode entitled "Dog Tags", A chance discovery of a WWI dog tag in his backyard leads an Englishman on a journey to three continents in search of the Canadian soldier who wore it and his mysterious past
Gipsy Simon Smith
George Frederick Burlton
Gertrude Herridge
Phoebe Grey
British Home Children Stories
Stories on the British Home Children Descendants site
Phillip J Howard
A National Children's Home Child
Alexander Angus
A Quarrier Child and a WWI Veteran
Arthur Lankshear
A Fegan's Home Child and a WWI Veteran
Frederick Humby
A Watts Naval School Child who died on the Titanic
Percy Bint
A Fegan's Home Child and a WWI Vereran
Thomas Gordon Brocklebank
An Ellinor Close Farm Home Child
Susan Jane Robinson
A Maria Rye Home Child
Robert McCaughan
Former child migrant (Australia) found helping others saved him
Teresa Fisher
A Dr. Barnardo Home Child who came to Canada in 1897 from Ireland
Stephen and Leonard Leggins
Barnnardo children, Stephen enlisted with the Candian Overseas Expeditiary Force
Alex and Samuel Kerr
Alice Violet (Lulu) Squires
BOOK - British Home Children: Their Stories
Compiled by the British Isles Family History Society of Ottawa (BIFHSGO)
Alice & Edward Latham
Brought by the Dr. Barnardo Homes 1913
Earnest Brown
Brought in 1910 by Dr. Barnardo's
Maggie & Mary Kerr
Brought by Dr. Barnardo's
William Preston Davis
brought by the Dr. Barnardo Homes, married Maggie Kerr
Dan Irving - Violin symbolizes brush with slavery
Thomas Merchant Crewe Joslin
Minnie E. C. JOSLIN, John J. C. JOSLIN and Thomas M. C. JOSLIN were placed in the care of Dr. Barnardo's home in London in July 1906, They were sent, separately to the USA and Canada as child migrants. It is now only possible to relate the story.
Gold Quartz - The Autobiography of an Early Home Child
Rev. W. Bowman Tucker, M.A., Ph.D. was one of the "Home Children", shipped over to Canada from England in 1871. He worked on an Ontario farm, became a Methodist Minister, and founded The Montreal City Mission in 1910.
British Home Child George James Robbins
In 1905 George James Robbins became a British Home Child. This is a collection of photographs, and a brief summary of the family. Includes many interesting excerpts from letters contained in the Catholic Emigration Association's records from England.
Orphans of the Empire by Paul Ham
Between 1913 and 1969, thousands of children from Britain’s slums were sent to school in Australia for a better future. Some found one, but many ended up victims of sexual abuse and child labour. © The Sunday Times July 2007
Migration Memories - Ian Bayleff
Ian Bayleff left the UK on 6th Feb, 1955. He arrived Sydney 14th March, 1955. This page is a place of his memories of Fairbridge in Molong. Fascinating reading.
Migration Memories - Jan Barby
Jan Barby was a child migrant in 1954 with Fairbridge Farm School in Australia. A short piece about her memories.
A Home Child in Grey County
This is a virtual exhibit at Grey Roots Museum and Archives.
Miracles on the Internet
This article was published by Rootsweb and selected to be included in their Great Genealogy Stories collection. It was written and submitted in July of 2000. Since that time, I have traveled to both New Zealand and to Scotland to meet family members of my grandfather, James William Blance. James and his four sisters and brothers were all British Home Children sent by the Quarrier Home in Bridge of Weir, Scotland to Canada. The letters mentioned in this story can be read on this web site. Just find John Hay Blance in the BHC database and they are printed as part of his story.
Walk Towards the Gallows:
The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899
This is a beautifully written story, and a true tragedy. This is the darker side of the British Home Children scheme, assessing how and why Hilda Blake bought a gun and murdered her mistress and providing rich detail about the life she led which help explain, though not condone, the actions that led her to the gallows.
Alfred Roland Mist - A Fegan Home Child
Rebecca Ann Thomas - A Barnardo Child
Alexander Angus
Albert George Jex - A Dr. Barnardo Child, LITTLE Albert Jex had the kind of start in life you wouldn’t wish for a child. The product of a mysterious and hushed-up liaison, he was taken under the wing of the Dr Barnardo’s charity at the age of three because his mother was blind and had no way of earning a living.
Fredrick John Hothersoll Foster - November 2006 Ancestors in the Attic episode entitled "Dog Tags", A chance discovery of a WWI dog tag in his backyard leads an Englishman on a journey to three continents in search of the Canadian soldier who wore it and his mysterious past
Gipsy Simon Smith
George Frederick Burlton
Gertrude Herridge
