Hello, I just wanted to remind researchers that for many years the U.K. "shipped out" or "flew out" - needy children - to other countries or colonies. In Canada, this "child migrant scheme" went on from 1860's to 1940's. I'm told that, for Australia and New Zealand, it mostly went on from 1900 to 1970. But, I recently read that children without parents might have been to that part of the world starting in the mid-1800's. The archives of the "British Home Children" List has 10 years of information and stories to read. And last fall I started up a new List, called CHILD-MIGRANTS-UK. It is for discussing all the children sent to every part of the world. The U.K. also sent them to South Africa, (now-called) Zimbabwe, and Malta, etc. And, many initially went to Canada and made their own way down to the United States. An FYI is that over 100,000 "needy children" went to Canada, and you can assume that over 150,000 needy children were "shipped out" of the U.K. - for probably 150 years ! And, if there was room on the ships, older teens and young adults could get on the ships with them. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)