I see in my posting regarding the book Empty Cradles, I missed a 0 in the total number of children It was 150,000 children not 15000 - quite disturbing really. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Williams" <dawnewil@verizon.net> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII > Thanks for the book suggestion. I'll try to get it. I have a cousin born > in > England at the end of WWII who was sent to Australia along with his > brothers, as orphans. When a law change allowed him access to his records, > he found out that his parents had not died until much later when he would > have been able to meet them had he known. I guess it was his parents > economic conditions during and after the war that led to the > circumstances. > Dawn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lyn Whelan" <johnwhelan@xtra.co.nz> > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:49 PM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII > > >> As a child, my former mother-in-law lived in Glasgow. She was evacuated >> to >> Blair Athol during the war. She did return to her family home afterwards. >> >> It appears this did not just happen in time of war and often the move was >> more permanent. I have a book by Margaret Humphreys (1997) called Empty >> Cradles. (Corgi Books, London). This book is about an estimated 150,00 >> children who were "deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped >> off >> to a "new life" in distant parts of the Empire" - the last as recent as >> 1967. Many children were told their parents were deceased. >> >> Margaret Humphreys was a Nottingham social worker. She investigated the >> case of a woman who claimed that at the age of 4, she had been put on a >> boat >> to Australia by the British government. >> >> This is well worth a read for those interested such a topic. Warning >> though - some of the content could be considered sensitive - it is an >> emotional account of life for these children. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message