This message is being sent on behalf of many children of the British Home Children Society -- some of whom might be your ancestors. I am certain many are being transcribed as lodgers or domestics on the 1911 census, some as young as two years. Muriel M. Davidson muriel_davidson@sympatico.ca Brampton, ON NOTE - Any queries to Perry Snow, address below, please! ========================================== British Home Children Society Could one of your ancestors have been a British Home Child? 100,000 children aged 5-15 were sent to Canada to work as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants as part of the British Child Emigration Scheme to Canada (1870-1957). Their familial ties were broken once 'in care' and sent to Canada. Many British Home Children spent their lives trying to find their parents and siblings. Many of their descendants have inherited their ancestors' lifelong search for their identities. Their are an estimated 5 million descendants of the British Home Children in Canada, and another estimated 1 million in the USA - an unknown number of children ran away from their farm placements to the USA, married, and had children. Over 50 childcare organizations (ie Barnardo, Rye, Waifs & Strays) professed a motive of providing these orphaned, impoverished, unwanted children with better lives than what they might have had in England. But, many of these children suffered from child neglect and abuse, and were often treated only as unpaid indentured farm labourers and domestic servants. The primary goal of the British Home Children Society is to create a comprehensive database of individual British Home Children records called the British Home Children Registry. This Registry will collect information about each individual British Home Child to create an ongoing legacy that will preserve their identities in perpetuity. The Registry currently has +50,000 individual records, and an abbreviated online version can be searched on The British Home Children Website The British Home Children Society was formed to assist the millions of Canadian, American, British, and Australian descendants of the British Home Children with re-establishing their familial ties. The sending agencies have been traditionally reluctant to release records to descendants. The British Home Children Society is committed to building an international community of Canadian, American, British, and Australian descendants to assist each other with their searches. Best Wishes Perry Snow BA MA (Hons) Psychologist President: British Home Children Society http://members.shaw.ca/persnow/ Listowner: British Home Children Mail List http://members.shaw.ca/persnow/faq_maillist.htm Webmaster: The British Home Children http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren/