My g-grandfather William Bond was with the Royal Artillery until his discharge in January 1890 at the age of 46. Upon his discharge, he moved his family to the St. George of the East area of London. Civilian life obviously did not agree with my great grandfather. I've found both him and the children in the Raine Street workhouse and infirmary in 1890 and 1891 and the children attended the Plashet school throughout 1891 (St George of the East). William appears to have finally discharged himself from the workhouse and gotten a job as a night watchman by 1892 but in August 1893, towards the end of a weeklong drunk, he swallowed some smelling salts and died of corrosive poisoning, leaving my great grandmother Jessie Bond with four young children, Laura aged 11, Thomas age 9, Frances age 6 and John age 3. By October of 1894, the Bond family was living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. So far, I've been unable to locate the family in either the outbound passenger records from the UK or in the inbound passenger records in Canada between August 1893 and October 1894. I'm assuming that as a young widow with four young children and no money, my great grandmother must have been assisted with her emigration to Canada and am hoping that someone may have knowledge of what agency or group might have sponsored such an emigration from London to Canada at that time. Barbara J Starmans Richmond Hill, ON, Canada website: http://www.bjstarmans.com blog: http://outofmytree.wordpress.com/