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Links to Help Research British Home Children

Added February 27, 2008



Birmingham City Archives (archives@birmingham.gov.uk): Holds the archives for Middlemore Homes and Workhouse records.

Bristol Home Children (http://www.bafhs.org.uk/shirley/index.htm): Includes information on the Bristol Emigration Society, who the children were and a database for those Bristol children who emigrated to Canada from 1871 through to 1912.

British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (http://www.bifhsgo.ca/home_children_emigration_scheme.htm): Tracing and Sharing British Isles Family History:  The purpose of this society is to encourage and facilitate research and its publication by people with ancestry in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Among the British Home Children information found on this page is the Middlemore Database.

Cyndi's List: Home Children (http://www.cyndislist.com/gencan.htm): Chose "Home Children" from the Category Index on the top to find links for research.

Heritage Renfrew's Home Children Canada (http://www.orphantrainriders.com/HomeChild/HomeIndex.html): Lots of information, including a research kit on "How to Get Started".

Library and Archives of Canada: Home Children (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/022-908.009-e.html): Contains several links to databases and other websites to help in the search.

Pier 21 (https://www.pier21.ca/): Located in Halifax, NS, many arriving in Canada passed through this building. By entering the key words 'home children' in the search box, ten results are found. Searches can also be done with surnames and ship names.

Workhouse (The) (http://www.workhouses.org.uk/): Pages of information on workhouses, their rules and locations, the staff and administration and those who found themselves at the mercy of workhouses.

Young Immigrants to Canada (http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd.html): A site dedicated to the research of all the organizations that brought children and young women to Canada between 1833 and 1939. Many links to help researchers.



Published in 1980 by Kids Can Press, “The Tin-lined Trunk” by Mary Hamilton is a children's chapter book about a British Home Child who was sent to work in Stratford, Ontario.

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