Hello, I've been posting about my  LEWIS / CORKILL great-grandparents for over 10 yrs., and used to post many times.    So, there is information in the archives.    I'll just try to briefly tell my great-grandmother's story. In 1852,  Evan CORKILL born ~1827 IOM  married Elizabeth QUAYLE from Whitehaven, Cumberland.    They seem to have initially lived in both Whitehaven and Liverpool.    Between 1852 and 1872, they had 7 children.    They had 2 sons, and then in 1860 a daughter, Mary Elizabeth.    During the 1860's they had 4 more children, so a total of 7.    Unfortunately, Mrs. CORKILL died in ~1872.    Since Evan was a mariner and always out to sea, most of the children went to live with their Uncle John CORKILL, also in Liverpool.    When the Liverpool Sheltering Homes opened in 1873, the 5 younger children were placed there.    They were put on ships to head to Nova Scotia in 1874 and 1875.    Mary was the oldest, and the youngest were little boys, 5 and 3. At the "Home"  Mary made friends with a teen-age boy who had also been placed there in 1873.    He was John "Stanley" LEWIS, born 1859 in Liverpool.    He was put on a ship to Nova Scotia in 1874, but Mary didn't leave until 1875.   The arrived in Halifax but found each other, and married in Truro in 1879.   They had their first child there and then, while pregnant, traveled to Boston.   They settled in nearby Stoneham, MA, where they continued to have children - to a total of .13.        "Stanley" was a newspaper man, and opened up a printing shop, and then started up 2, independent newspapers.    Many of their children worked with him. The children all lived to adulthood, but 2 died unexpectedly after marrying while in their 20's.    Because of my research, I have been able to contact descendants of most of the children.    Most did not know their grandparents' story.    So, I sent each a summary of what I knew. Unfortunately, Stanley and Mary both died of cancer in 1923 and 1924.   So, my father never got to know them, and, of course, I had only some knowledge of my father's uncles and aunts.    I was told, and read, that Stanley was a well-liked man in Stoneham, MA,  from 1881 to 1923.    I haven't been able to hear about the personality of Mary - while here.    The reason she couldn't travel with her siblings to Canada in 1874 is that she had "misbehaved" at the "Home" and the officials wouldn't let her go.    She "pleaded" with them to let her go in 1875. Mary was about 13 when she lost her mother, and she had 4 young siblings, 2 as babies.    So, she probably had to be a substitute mother for a time.    They had lost one brother who had died at Age 10.    And, maybe ~1870, their oldest brother, Edward, had been placed on the Akbar Training Ship.    It seems he somehow made his way to Canada in 1873  (B.C.). As I've said many times,  I've never been able to find out if Evan CORKILL  (1827-1899) remained in contact with his 6 children in Canada.    And, I don't know if he ever saw them again.    And, did his children find out that he had remarried in Liverpool - after they left? I have pictures of "Stanley" and Mary, portraits with their children.   One of the pictures is included on one of the "BHC QUILTS" on display in Canada.   I don't think the  "UK's Child Migrant Scheme"  and in Canada, the "British Home Children" have been mentioned on this List in a long time. Betty                 (near Lowell, MA, USA) (on Lists and Boards for 12+ yrs.;   now an Admin for 11 Lists and 5 Boards) FYI: On the ship with Stanley in 1874 were 3 LEWIS girls.    Since he was an only child, it is assumed the girls were not related to him, and they seem to have not been related to each other.