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Home Children in Ontario

There were more placement organizations than just Barnardos Home, although it relocated the most children.

Home Children in Orphanages in Ontario and England

Miss Rye's Party 1881 on SS Sarmation to Quebec (New Nov. 2005)

Father Nugent's Orphans to Quebec 1881 on SS Sarmation ( (New Nov. 2005)

Father Nugent's Orphans to Quebec 1870 on SS Austrian (New Nov. 2005)

Home Children in the Guthrie Home, London Ontario 1888

Home Children in the House of Providence, Kingston Ontario 1888

Names of 354 Home Children sailing from England to Canada in 1869 [NAC online database, more details available on their site]

Names of 866 Home Children sailing from England to Canada in 1870 [NAC online database, more details available on their site]

Names of 1,877 Home Children sailing from England to Canada in 1871 [NAC online database, more details available on their site]

Names of 1,298 Home Children sailing from England to Canada in 1873 [NAC online database, more details available on their site]

Miss Rye's Peckham Homes in 1881

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The website for British Home Children researchers at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren has the names of +3000 children that people are researching.

The email list has grown to +300 international subscribers in a few months at: BRITISHHOMECHILDREN-L-request@rootsweb.com

Addresses for Home Children Information

Address of Barnardos is:

Barnardos After Care Section
Tanners Lane
Barkingside
Ilford, Essex
1G6 1QG

There is an agency in Canada devoted to helping the families of Home Children The address is:

Home Children Committee
107 Erindale Ave
Renfrew, Ontario
K7V 4G3 Canada
phone 613 432 2486

The Child Migrants Trust
8 Kingston Road
West Bridgford
Nottingham, NG2 7AQ, UK

Other placement agencies were Church of England Children's Bureau, The National Children's Home, Fegan Home, Middlemore Home and the Quarriers Home Of Scotland among others.

Address forChurch of England's Childrens Bureau

The Children's Society
Edward Rudolf House
Margery Street
London
WC1X 0JL

There have been several excellent books written explaining the plight of The Home Childrenask at your public library for

• Barnardo Children in Canada, Gail H Corbett
• Empty Cradles Margaret Humphreys
• The Home Children, edited by Phyllis Harrison
• The Little Immigrants Kenneth Bagnell