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HOME CHILDREN [see below for a list of Boyd children and additional Home Children information] Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Many siblings were separated from each other upon their arrival in Canada, and never saw each other again. Other siblings were separated when they were sent to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Many spent their lives trying to identify their parents and find their siblings. Most were unsuccessful. The British Child Emigration Scheme persisted until the mid 1960’s when 15-20,000 children were emigrated (deported) to Australia and New Zealand. 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. The database at the National Archives of Canada for the children is now *online.The database is not complete as yet. The British Isle Group in Ottawa are still working on it. NAC says that most of the early years are there. If you do not find the name you are looking for you should try again in a month or so. Related Web Sites National Archives of Canada, Home Children database http://pda.republic.net/othsa/HomeChild/HomeMenu.html Emigration as a Solution Australian Sources The following BOYD children are listed in the database at this time: BOYD, Sarah - Age:16 - Sex:F BOYD, Gaye - Age:16 - Sex:M BOYD, James - Age:4 - Sex:M BOYD, Arthur - Age:4 - Sex:M BOYD, Thomas - Age:8 - Sex: M BOYD, George W - Age:17 - Sex:M BOYD, Lizz - Age:10 - Sex:F BOYD, Amelia - Age:17 - Sex:F BOYD, Maggie - Age:12 - Sex:F BOYD, William - Age:18 - Sex: M BOYD, Maggie - Age:7 - Sex:F BOYD, Kitty A. - Age:18 - Sex: F BOYD, Susanna - Age:18 - Sex:F BOYD, Thomas - Age:16 - Sex:F BOYD, Charlotte - Age:21 - Sex:F BOYD, Eleanor - Age:11 - Sex:F BOYD, George - Age:12 - Sex:M BOYD, Henry - Age:18 - Sex:M BOYD, James - Age:13 - Sex: M BOYD, Samuel - Age:15 - Sex:M BOYD, Mary - Age:10 - Sex:F BOYD, Samuel J. - Age:17 - Sex:M BOYD, Alfred - Age:11 - Sex:M BOYD, James - Age:12 - Sex:M BOYD, William - Age:11 - Sex:M BOYD, Robert J. - Age:18 - Sex:M Neither Waif nor Stray" The Search For A Stolen Identity ISBN 1-58112-758-8 How could anyone steal anyone's identity? Millions of Canadians, Americans, Britons, and Australians do not know they are related to each other. There is a harrowing chapter missing from history books about the British Child Emigration Scheme to Canada. Between 1870 and 1948,
more than fifty childcare organizations deported 100,000 alleged
orphaned, abandoned, illegitimate, and impoverished children to Canada
ostensibly to "provide them with better lives than they would have
had in England." Thousands of 6-to-15-year-old children were
transported without their parents' knowledge or consent to work as
indentured farm labourers and domestic servants until they were 18 years
old. According to Snow, some children were fortunate and were treated as members of Canadian families. But more than half suffered from abuse and neglect. Neither the Canadian government nor the British agencies assumed responsibility for their welfare. Many were not allowed to go to school, nor provided with adequate food, clothing, or shelter. They suffered a unique form of prejudice in Canada because of their presumed "tainted" origins. They were ostracized and accused of being carriers of syphilis. They were unwanted in England and unwelcome in Canada. "My father became a ward of the Waifs and Strays Society when he was four years old. He never saw his family again," Perry said. "When he was no longer in care, he wrote letters, pleading with them to 'help one who has been in darkness, and ignorant as to who he is,'" Perry said. For 50 years his father wrote to the Waifs and Strays Society trying to get information about himself and his family. "He never had a birth certificate. He had nothing to verify who he was for the first 33 years of his life," Perry said. "For the next 15 years, he carried a tattered To Whom It May Concern letter stating his name and identifying him as 'of British nationality.'" According to Perry, his father received his Baptism Certificate when he was 48 years old, but was still unable to identify his parents or locate his family at the time of his death on his still-unconfirmed 85th birthday in 1994. It took a year for Perry to obtain his father's case file from the Children's Society: "I discovered they withheld from my father the information he so desperately sought all his life and they didn't readily give it to me," Perry said. "They denied they had information, presented false information, and lied to my father and me," he added. After four more years of searching, Perry finally identified his grandparents and located four uncles and aunts. Perry wonders why this organization didn't want his father to know who he was, and was intrigued by the lengths to which the agency went to irrevocably sever family ties. He can't understand why many of the sending agencies continue to withhold information that would allow millions to reunite with their families. "I hope the
successful conclusion of my search will inspire others to persist until
they re-establish their familial ties," Perry said. "No
one should live their lives without knowing who they are and to whom
they belong -- it is your birthright to know your heritage," he
concluded. Further information about the book and the author are available at http://www.cadvision.com/psnow.waifnorstray.htm. For publication details, and information about discounts for multiple purchases, contact youngj@upublish.com. " researchers with Home Children in their family trees should devour and savour Neither Waif Nor Stray . genealogists in search of the backgrounds and records of Home Children will benefit from the insights, direct contacts and avenues discussed by the author. Both the bibliography and the appendix are hand- books in themselves, full of useful information and encouraging sidebars. ... Snow makes strong and unmistakable political statements denouncing both the past and current attitudes of government officials towards young 'waifs and strays' shipped like cattle to Canada" (Global Gazette, 2000) Snow developed a website with the names of +3,000 British Home Children listed at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren He created an email list of +300 international subscribers who help each other with their searches. To subscribe click on this email
link and type SUBSCRIBE in the message. NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
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