Regarding the comment by Mr McAllister about Irish neutrality. That did not include Northern Ireland and I know that Belfast harbor had large ship yards. I would think it would be seen as a potential target. The rest of Ireland was neutral. In a message dated 1/19/2008 3:21:47 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, mcallisterfamily@btopenworld.com writes: Hi all, this sort of thing happened in England from many of the main areas when the Germans were bombing strategic targets. My father-in-law was sent from Birmingham, he lived near to the Dunlop factory, out to the wilds of Derbyshire. My mother's family were sent from south-east London up to Yorkshire, a trip of several hours by train, most of them went back many years later and settled there too. Rather than the phrase 'children sent away', the term 'evacuee' was deemed a suitable description of these children, many of whom were also evacuated to Canada, but some of these were home children, already orphans. Many were killed also after the ships they were traveling on were sunk. It is only reccently I have found out that there were bombings that had taken place in Ireland too! I thought the IRish were neutral during WW2! Regards, Michael McAllister > From: "Claire McConville" <clairybums@dsl.pipex.com> > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII > Hi All, > > > > I have been contacted by a lady whose father and his siblings were > children > during WWII and were sent, from Belfast, to live on a farm in Lisbellaw. I > know it was common practice in England, as well as Ireland, for children > to > be sent away to live with other families. > This lady has posted to the Belfast mailing list but unfortunately not had > any response so I am posting here as the two places mentioned fall into > the > boundaries and also, as I know how helpful and knowledgeable you all are. > Is there any way of finding out information about children sent away to > live > on farms? Government lists perhaps? I have emailed the lady back to get a > surname just in case someone has already been researching this, I have to > say most interesting, topic. > ------------------------------- 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 **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489