This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: southard Surnames: CARROLL Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.carroll/7494.4.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: One of the news articles for which I gave the URL in my Nov. 15 query says, "Officials are consulting survivors of the programme so that a statement can be made in the new year." Let's watch the news from England after the first of the year. If someone sees that the formal apology has been made, then Post it to the message board. I don't know if they will publish any lists of those transported or not. Peter Wilson Coleman has spent many years trying to find the names of all who were shipped to America. My May 26, 2009 query above lists the CARROLLS I found on a CD containing the books of Mr. Coleman which I purchased from AncestorStuff.com. I don't think these were children however. Some were prisoners and some were indentured for a period of time to the person who paid their transportation to the colonies. In a sense they became slaves for an agreed period of time. Legal papers were recorded in court for that indenture. You will see on the list that there were many runaways who didn't fulfill the agreement. The sentence for some of the prisoners was that they could never return to the British Isles. I see that a Thomas Carroll stole a cow in County Cork, Ire. in 1757 and was transported for life. But he returned to Ire. and was executed in 1767. The population had grown to more than those small countries could feed. Many of the people turned to stealing what they could to feed their families. Apparently that is what a lot of the children were doing on the streets... just stealing whatever they could find to steal. I believe the king approved at one time for 100 to be taken from the streets of London, and it didn't take long to get them. It sounds horrible, but I am personally glad it happened.... if that is how any of my ancestors got here. I'm thankful this week of Thanksgiving to live in this USA. The Prime Minister in Australia has already apologized there. Apparently a lot of those children were abused. I think in the N. Am. colonies they probably just had to work. Hard physical work with nourishing food is just what the doctor wants now for all of us. I think whatever their conditions in the colonies was better than poverty on the streets in London. Lura Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.