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Orphan & Orphanage Records Father James Nugent's Party of Home Children Ireland to Canada SS Sarmatian from Liverpool via Londonderry left Liverpool 30 Jun 1881 arrived Quebec 10 Jul 1881 In excess of 130,000 children were sent from United Kingdom to Canada & Australia from 1860 to 1930 There were more placement organizations than just Barnardos Home, although it relocated the most children. The Archives of Ontario has created a searchable online database for Home Children. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in passenger lists in the custody of the National Archives of Canada Father James Nugent was born in 1822. In 1849 he opened a Ragged School at Copperas Hill to take homeless children off the streets. Father Nugent established a night shelter and refuge giving homeless boys food and lodging but in 1867 there were so many boys needing his help that he decided to set up a residential school The Boys Refuge was opened in 1869. There impoverished boys learned shoe making, tailoring, joinery and printing. Father Nugent also participated in the child emigration to Canada from 1870 to 1930. In 1880 he took over 300 people from Galway Ireland to St Paul’s, Minnesota, USA. He also took his first group of 35 Irish children to Canada on 18 August 1870 on the SS Austrian from Londonderry to Quebec. On 30 June 1881 Father Nugent sent more children to Quebec on the SS Sarmatian SS Sarmatian from Liverpool via Londonderry left Liverpool 30 Jun 1881 arrived Quebec 10 Jul 1881 Microfilm reel: C-4531 List of Home Children on the SS Sarmatian in Father Nugent's Party Only 15 children on the SS Sarmation Passenger List can be identified as part of Father Nugent's Party although there were supposed to be 18 DAREY A 2 DAREY Kate 8 JONES John 13 JONES Thomas 11 JONES Mary 13 HUGHES George 4 (see Lorine's Note A) HUGHES Richard 8 (see Lorine's Note A) HUGHES William 10 (see Lorine's Note A) HUGHES Sarah 17 (see Lorine's Note A) McDONALD James 6 ROWLAND Ried 13 (Note - manifest difficult to read, child's first name uncertain) (see Lorine's Note B) ROWLAND Catherine 6 (see Lorine's Note B) ROWLAND Jane 4 (see Lorine's Note B) LOFTUS Esther 5 (see Lorine's Note C) LOFTUS Margaret 3 (see Lorine's Note C) McDONNELL Annie 24 (probably sent to look after the children) Some of the children on board SS Sarmation were girls who were part of Miss Rye's group of Home Children. Lorine's Note A The 1881 census for Liverpool, Lancashire, England shows the HUGHES children living with their mother and other siblings in the home of Elizabeth KELLY and her children. The Hughes family consists of: Ann HUGHES married 38 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Mary HUGHES 18 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Servant Sarah HUGHES 14 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Shop Girl John HUGHES 12 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar William HUGHES 10 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar Richard HUGHES 8 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar George HUGHES 3 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar Lorine's Note B The 1881 census for Liverpool, Lancashire, England shows the Rowlands children with their widowed mother Eliza Eliza ROWLANDS Head Widow, 28 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Richd. ROWLANDS 15 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Cathne. ROWLANDS 6 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Jane ROWLANDS 5 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Lorine's Note C The 1881 census for Liverpool Lancashire England shows the Loftus sisters living with their uncle George HUYTON, age 36 and mother Hannah LOFTUS age 31 Hannah LOFTUS age 31 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Warehouse Woman (6/4) Margaret LOFTUS 6 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar Esther LOFTUS 6 born Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar * Search for Your Immigrant Ancestor in Ports of Arrival U.S.A. | Canada | Australia & New Zealand | South Africa | England * Find Ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists Outbound from USA & Canada * Find Ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists by Year of Arrival

 
 

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