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Home for the Homeless 1888
Broughall Legacy Letters
THE DOCTOR'S CHILDREN 1995
The Barnardo Publications
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Our Darlings - Barnardo's
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Barnardo's "Our Darlings"
Winter in Canada
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Barnardo Boy's Mag
Taken out of the Gutter
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Watts Naval Training School
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Winnipeg Receiving Home
Barnardo's Musical Boys
E A Struthers Day Book 1905
Crime or Misdemeanors list
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Toronto Maternity Home
Indenture Contracts
Various Barnardo Doc's
Barnardo Government Reports
Alfred B Owen
Excursion's to England
Hotel Dieu, Kingston, Ontario
Good Conduct Medals
Application Fees for children
Agreements and indentures
Catholic Emigration - 10,000 emigrated
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St. Georges Home - Ottawa
Monsignor James Nugent
Father Hudson
Father Seddon
St. Vincent Rescue Home
Annie Macpherson - 8,000 emigrated
Ellen Bilbrough and Robert Wallace
William Quarrier- Brockville Ont 7,200 immigrated
Quarriers - Scotland
Louisa Birt - 6,000 emigrated
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Louisa Birt files (some)
John T Middlemore - 5,000 emigrated
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Middlemore Placement Lists
Guthrie House, London, Ont
Fairview Nova Scotia
Middlemore Letters
Who was John Middlemore
Maria Rye - 4,200 emigrated
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Maria Rye-Niagara on the Lake
Maria Rye Children's Letters
Inspections of Rye Children
National Children's Home 3,600 emigrated
Janet Wallis - Hurst Home
Fegan's
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Fegan's Home in England
Mr. Gold, Melbourne, Quebec
Shaftsbury Homes
various British organizations
Selling Insurance to BHC
Visitor Reports
John Joseph Kelso
1911 Census of Canada
Elinor Close-New Brunswick
Vimy Ridge Training Farm
Fairbrige Farm Vancouver
Emma Stirling of Hillfoot Farm
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Salford Catholic Protection Society
Inspection of children 1893 to 1894
Hillfoot Farm - Emma Stirling
Catholic Emigration Records
The du Pont Inscription
Emma's Paternal History
Grace M Fagan - A Stirling Girl
Delaney Court Records
Florida Humane Association
Emma & Bailey’s Bluff
The Wm Bingham Estate
Bristol Emigration Society
Grosse Isle
MRS. MARGARET BLAIKIE'S
Dakeyne Boy's Farm
Ellen Smyly
St. Patrick's Home in Ottawa
Stanley Boys Home
W. J. Paddy
Charlotte Alexander
Chase Farm School
Bristol Union Children 1905
Manchester & Salford Boys' and Girls' Refuges
Church of England, Waifs & Strays 4,468
Miss Brennans Home - Montreal
House of Providence, Kingston Ontario
The Salvation Army
G.C. Cossar
Mr T. E. Sedgwick
Overseas Settlement Committee
The Children's Friends Society
Church Army
BHC Registry, over 82,000 children registered!
Access to Children's Care Files
BHC's records
Barnardo Home Records
The Children's Society Records
Ups and Down's Magazine
Ups and Downs 1895 - 1896
Ups and Down 1897 - 1898
Ups and Downs 1899 - 1900
Ups and Downs 1901 - 1902
Ups and Downs 1903
Ups and Downs 1904
Ups and Downs 1905
Ups and Downs 1906
Ups and Downs 1907 June
May 1910, 1913 & May & Aug 1912
Dec 1915 Ups and Downs
July 1939, Dec 1940, Dec 1942, Dec 1946
Our Old Friends Directory
some articles
Names of child in the Ups and Downs
Pictures of Children 1903
Alfred Jolly
How to Research Your BHC
BHC Fact Page
First World War Casualty Index
BHC Burial Index
The Park Lawn Cemetery Monument
Children's Trunks & Bibles
Receiving Homes in Pictures
Ships the BHC Came On
History of the BHC - Film
2016 BHC Memory Quilt
The 2010 Memory Quilts
BHC Memory Quilt (Ont)
BHC Memorial Quilt (Ab)
Service in the Wars
First World War Causalities
Second World War Service
Served in Both Wars
Lives Shortened
First World War service
Lists of boys who served
Individual Service Stories
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Private William Francis Conabree
John Mash
Sydney James Bevan
Alfred Mist
Cecil Bennett
Links to stories of BHC WW1 service
Newspaper clips - BHC service
BHCARA Upcoming Events
British Home Child Books
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Perry Snow - Neither Waif nor Stray
The Bitter Cry of Outcast London
Farm Life in Canada
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Silence
Better Life or the Empire Fodder
EMIGRATION WORK IN CANADA 1905
THE EMIGRANT GIRLS HOME IN CANADA 1877
Kennington Cove
The Barnardo Boy
BHC to Nova Scotia
Personal Discovery 1935
The Land of the Lost Children
Rye's Western Home
Church Apologies to Child Migrants
Life in the Workhouse
Woman Miners
Victorian Child Labourers
Evicted London
Historical News Articles
Articles in the British Press
The Hazelbrae Memorial
Stories of British Home Children
Collection of various stories
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Reunited Families
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Gone too soon
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Our Lost Children
1901 census
First World War deaths
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Lost Children
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British Home Children Burial Records
Shorter BHC Stories
Stories A to M
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The Bagley Family
John Bolton
James Arthur Ball
The Bates Family
Hilda Blake
Charles Bradbury
Joseph Barnett
The Lost Children
Augustus Bridle
Percy Brown
Rev A. H. Brace
John & Benjamin Butterworth
The Brocklebank Family
William Joseph Carter
John Cawsey
Two Gun Cohen
Fifi the Clown
Henry Richard Cooper
Violet Elizabeth Chaffee
Edith Cherryholme
BHC Centenarians
Arthur Clarkson & Lily Wood
Albert McCarthy
Ronald Chamberlain
Anthony (Tony) Chambers
Cherryholme-Gizzard-Sharpe Family
Herbert Clifford
James E Cowell
George Daintree
George Martin Day
Esther & Elizabeth Dawson
Leslie Henry Baden Fielding
Charlie, Ted and Bill Elliott
Wallace Ford
George Frost
Gladys Fudge
Annie Garwood Letters
John Lydiet George
Annie Gevaux
Albert Edward Gill
Arthur Mcgregor GODSALL
Harry Gossage
George Everett Green
Robert "Robbie" Gray
Elsie Hathaway
Books and mentioned children
Stewart Harris
Margaret Healey
George Hollingshurst
The St. George's Memorial
Walter Leigh Lockett/Rayfield
Bill Holtum
Tom Isherwood
General information - Heritage
Edward Jones
Cecelia & Ethel JOWETT
Frederick John Kempster
George Marlow Leeson
George & Annie McMaster
Edgar Evan Marselle
Will, Elsie & George Maybury
The Mintram Family
Stories N to Z
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Herbert Owens
Fred W. Palmer
Lizzie Poole
Liela Eliza Preston
Nellie Page
Francis James Preston
Edmond Roberts
Dr. John R. Seeley
Frederick Robert Shaw
Ellen, Martha & Rachel Birch
Walter Tompkins
Gipsy Simon Smith
Robert Rankin and George Nelson
Kate, Sarah & Jamie Stewart
The Stacey Family
The Richardson Sisters
Albert Stone
The Lois Stanford Collection
The Taylor's and Usher's
Charlie & Matthew Tyler
John Vallance
Arnold Walsh
The Ward and Seymour Family
Joe & Bob Waterer
Richard Weston
Hilda Williams
Walter Wilson
Children's Placement Lists
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Making the Canadian Flag
Apologies to BHC & Families
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Frederick Nicholls
Dr. C. K. Clarke
House of Commons Reports
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Paying Agents in England
Traveling Immigration Agent Reports
Immigration Stats
Bonus's Paid for Children
Propaganda in the press
MISS EFFIE BENTHAM
Diseased Savages Quote
Child Saving Conference 1894
John D. S. Campbell
Canadian recognition
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The Canadian Goverment
Britain's will never be slaves
Migration Legislation
Pauper Children Emigration Bill
British Legislation
Canadian Legislation
The Doyle Report 1875
Home Child Interviews
Collection/Penny Boxes
LAC and Heritage Canada
Deported Children
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Report of inspection of Home children
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costs of Inspection Reports
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Lori Oschefski
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GRIMES, Arthur
WWll, Korean and Boer War Project
Sydney Howarth
Second world war - boer war/south africa - korean war
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British home child AND immigration information
Please look up the Registry Number for your BHC here:
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If not in the BHC Registry provide link to LAC immigration
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Provide as many details as possible for the immigration,SENDING ORGANIZATION leaving date, arrival date, boat, organization, receiving home .
To find the LAC immigration record vist:
Library & Archives Canada BHC & Youth Immigration Lists
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Birth Day/Month/Year
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City / Village / District
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Sending Organization
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Arrival Year
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Arrival Age
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Juvenile Inspection Report Cards 1913-1932
Most of the BHC who enlisted will have an inspection report on their BHC placements and progress. These were published by the Library & Archives Canada on the Heritage Canada site. It is important that each person submitting search the files to find the soldiers report. There is vital information contained in these reports. The links are provided below, once found. copy the URL to submit in box below.
Abbott, A.W to Cardigan, M
Cardwell, A to Evans, A.E.
Evans, A. to Henderson, A
Henderson, H. to Lock, A
Lock, H. to O'Brien, S
O'Brien, S. to Shaw, V.
Shaw, W. to Weale, W
Wealls, E. to Zyczynski
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Service information
Only files for the War Dead have been released
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To find service information of the War Dead visit these links:
Service Files of the Second World War - War Dead, 1939-1947
- Library & Archives Canada
Canada, WWII Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947
- Ancestry (most files from the War Dead are here)
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- to find Second World War casualties who served for Britain
The Boer War Records can be accessed at The Library and Archives Canada:
South African War, 1899-1902 - Service Files, Medals and Land Applications
For more information on access to Military Records visit:
The Library and Archives Canada
War(s) Served In
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Boer War South Africa 1899 – 1902
First World War 1914 to 1918
Second World War 1939 to 1945
The Korean War 1950-1953
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Attestation Date D/M/Y
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Next of Kin & Relationship EX Bob Hope, Brother
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second war served in
War Served
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Attestation Date D/M/Y
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Prov/State/UK County/Country
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Battalion /Regiment EX: Royal Rifles of Canada
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Next of Kin & Relationship: EX: HOPE, Bob - brother
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Death and burial INFORMATION
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Age at death
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Burial Cemetery
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www.findagrave.com
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