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• Articles on Child Migration

  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
  

• Barnardo's

  In 1870, Dr. Barnardo opened his first home for children in London’s impoverished East End.

  • Former Child Migrants of Australia

  • Home Children - Canada

• British Home Children

  A site for listing the names of the individual British Home Children.

• British Home Children Mailing List

  A mailing list for those interested in researching the 100,000 British Home Children who were emigrated to Canada by 50 child care organizations to work as indentured farm labourers (1870-1940). Archives: browse or search.

• Canadian Centre for Home Children / Centre Canadien Du Home Children

  Dedicated to the Home Children that were sent to Canada between 1869 and 1948. The Canadian Centre was founded to assist the Home Children and their families in locating their real identities, confirming documents (i.e., birth certificate) and to help them reunite with living family members where possible.

• Child Migrants from the United Kingdom

• Child Migrants Information

  From the UK Department of Health.

• Empty Cradles

  A book by Margaret Humphreys.

• Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939

  A book by Marjorie Kohli.

• Home Children Canada (Pacific)

  Organization to help Home Children and their descendants to discover their past.

• Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924

  A book by Joy Parr.

• List of Girls in Miss Rye's Peckham Homes 1881

  Search for ancestors in a list of orphaned and impoverished Home Children.

• Nation Builders: Barnardo Children in Canada

  A book by Gail H. Corbett.

• National Archives of Canada - Home Children (1869-1930)

  Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. 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.

  • Home Children Search

    A searchable online index for the years 1865 to 1919 is available online.

• Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search For A Stolen Identity

  A book by Perry Snow.

• Organisations Helping Former Child Migrants To Find Family Members

• PHIND - Personal History Index

  Computerised index detailing the location of records held in Australia for former child migrants to Catholic Homes between 1938 and 1965.

• Quarriers Charity

  Originally Orphan Homes of Scotland located at Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire.

  • Genealogy

    For assistance in tracking relatives cared for by Quarriers in the past, including those who went to Canada.

  • History

    • Canada

• Ragged School Museum

  The museum resides in three canal-side warehouses in Copperfield Road, East London. These buildings were previously used by Dr Barnardo to house the largest ragged school in London.

• Records Relating to Child Migrants

  From the Archives Office of Tasmania.