Commemorating British Home Child Day with over 2,000 new records
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By Daisy Goddard | September 27, 2024
We've added important records from Britain and Canada this week.
We've added three brand new Home Children record sets to our existing collection this week. These additions offer a detailed glimpse into an often-forgotten chapter in history.
With emigration reports, lodgings registers and newspaper cuttings, there are a total of 2,213 new images for you to explore.
Why not use these new records to dive into the story of Britain's Home Children today?
Colonial Office, Emigration to Canada Enclosures to Reports
The first of our trio of new Home Children record sets consists of 1,888 transcriptions and images from the Canadian Colonial Office. These reports document children who emigrated from Britain to Canada between 1887 and 1892
In addition to a child's name, age and emigration year, these records may tell you where an individual moved from, and where they ended up in Canada. For many children, there is also a detailed description of their situation within the original record image.
Register of Boys arrived in Toronto House of Industry
This week's second new set is a collection of 250 register entries, documenting boys and men who the Toronto House of Industry received between 11858 and 1864. The Toronto House of Industry was a lodging house that catered to Toronto's poor and was part of the Home Children scheme in the 19th century.
Each record has both a transcription and an original image.
News-Cuttings Of Dr. Barnardo
To further expand our collective understanding of the Home Children scheme, we've also published a collection of browse-only news cuttings about the life and work of Dr Barnado.
Missionary Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin in 1845. From the creation of the first Barnardo's children's home in 1867 to his death in 1905, almost 60,000 children had passed through his various institutions.
Barnardo's homes played an important role in the Home Children scheme, and these news clippings provide relevant context for understanding this chapter in history.
New titles from Northumberland and Newport
We added a duo of new titles from Northumberland and Wales to our collection this week, so if you've got roots in Alnwick or Newport, these pages from the 19th and 20th centuries are not to be missed.
Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser, 1 June 1889.
But that's not all - we've also updated 21 of our existing publications, with a total of 146,33 new pages added.
Here's everything we added to our newspaper collection this Findmypast Friday.
New titles:
- Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser, 1889, 1910-1911
- Newport Pagnell Citizen, 1994
Updated titles:
- Barnoldswick & Earby Times, 1957, 1959, 1976-1978, 1994-1995
- Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 1951-1959, 1972-1977, 1993
- Biggleswade Chronicle, 1994
- Brighouse Echo, 1893, 1994-1995, 1997, 1999
- Buxton Advertiser, 1965, 1967, 1983
- Buxton Herald, 1893-1894, 1900, 1905
- Chorley Guardian, 1993, 1996-1997
- Derbyshire Times, 1987
- Eastbourne Gazette, 1961-1962, 1964, 1966, 1970-1972, 1979, 1984
- Eastbourne Herald, 1968, 1973, 1976-1985
- Falkirk Herald, 1996
- Harrogate Advertiser and Weekly List of the Visitors, 1854, 1860, 1866, 1872
- Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1992
- Hull Daily News, 1916, 1923
- Kirkintilloch Herald, 1961
- Lancing Herald, 2002
- Motherwell Times, 1990
- Nelson Leader, 1997
- Sussex Express, 1974-1975
- West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 2000
- Whitley Bay Guardian, 1997
Last week we added Devon parish records and more. Explore the full release here.
Commemorating British Home Child Day
In honour of Home Child Day, Findmypast's Jen Baldwin will be joined by Lori Oschefski, President of Home Children Canada, for a session on Friday at 4 pm.
Together Jen and Lori will be digging into the experiences of some British Home Children using the record collection and shining a light on life stories that deserve to be told.
