It was very common for young children, both boys and girls, that had been placed in orphanages i.e. Dr Barnardo's to be sent as farm children/servants to Canada and Australia in the early 20th century, poverty was great in the UK and families could not afford the children also it might have been the case that after being widowed a woman would remarry and her husband would not keep the children from her first husband. They were sent with just a few bits and pieces, about the age of seven, this happened to the three Bonwick boys in my family who were sent to Canada, the second husband allowed the girls to stay in at the marital home but put the boys in the orphanage. All three boys did well in Canada becoming businessmen in fact their descendents I believe became involved in politics. My greatest joy was being able, through research, to reunite the family left here to their relations in Canada. Joan -----Original Message----- From: sackett-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sackett-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ted Smith Sent: 12 April 2013 00:21 To: sackett@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SACKETT] A special day for Ivy Sackett Interesting, Chris. I had not heard of Barnado's before. A search of the web found a number of sources that mentioned Barnado's homes, including a few that mentioned kidnapping charges. I wonder how widespread the practice was of shipping young girls from England to Canada. --------------------------------- Ted Smith tcsmith@surewest.net -----Original Message----- From: Chris Sackett Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:37 PM To: Sackett Family Mailing List Subject: [SACKETT] A special day for Ivy Sackett Ivy Florence (Sackett) Alger celebrates her 106th birthday today. We wish her a joyful day and many happy returns. See http://thesackettfamilyassociationblog.blogspot.com/ Thank you to Sandy Alger for information and the photograph. Chris Sackett ------------------------------- The Sackett Family Association website is at http://www.sackettfamily.info/. To contact the Sackett List Admin, send a message to SACKETT-admin@rootsweb.com. See list information and search the archives at http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/s/sackett.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SACKETT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- The Sackett Family Association website is at http://www.sackettfamily.info/. To contact the Sackett List Admin, send a message to SACKETT-admin@rootsweb.com. See list information and search the archives at http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/s/sackett.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SACKETT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

There were thousands of them Chris, a good article in Wiki about it, plus there is a feature length film about the Australian children - around 14,000 went to Canada. I think the article is either Care home or Care children, but if you put orphan transport to Canada and Australia it will come up. Hope this it helpful to you On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Joan Leary <joan.leary@ntlworld.com> wrote: > It was very common for young children, both boys and girls, that had been > placed in orphanages i.e. Dr Barnardo's to be sent as farm > children/servants > to Canada and Australia in the early 20th century, poverty was great in the > UK and families could not afford the children also it might have been the > case that after being widowed a woman would remarry and her husband would > not keep the children from her first husband. They were sent with just a > few bits and pieces, about the age of seven, this happened to the three > Bonwick boys in my family who were sent to Canada, the second husband > allowed the girls to stay in at the marital home but put the boys in the > orphanage. All three boys did well in Canada becoming businessmen in fact > their descendents I believe became involved in politics. My greatest joy > was > being able, through research, to reunite the family left here to their > relations in Canada. > Joan > > -----Original Message----- > From: sackett-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sackett-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Ted Smith > Sent: 12 April 2013 00:21 > To: sackett@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SACKETT] A special day for Ivy Sackett > > Interesting, Chris. I had not heard of Barnado's before. A search of the > web > found a number of sources that mentioned Barnado's homes, including a few > that mentioned kidnapping charges. I wonder how widespread the practice was > of shipping young girls from England to Canada. > > --------------------------------- > Ted Smith > tcsmith@surewest.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Sackett > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:37 PM > To: Sackett Family Mailing List > Subject: [SACKETT] A special day for Ivy Sackett > > Ivy Florence (Sackett) Alger celebrates her 106th birthday today. We wish > her a joyful day and many happy returns. > > See http://thesackettfamilyassociationblog.blogspot.com/ > > Thank you to Sandy Alger for information and the photograph. > > Chris Sackett > ------------------------------- > The Sackett Family Association website is at > http://www.sackettfamily.info/. > > To contact the Sackett List Admin, send a message to > SACKETT-admin@rootsweb.com. > > See list information and search the archives at > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/s/sackett.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SACKETT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > The Sackett Family Association website is at > http://www.sackettfamily.info/. > > To contact the Sackett List Admin, send a message to > SACKETT-admin@rootsweb.com. > > See list information and search the archives at > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/s/sackett.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SACKETT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > The Sackett Family Association website is at > http://www.sackettfamily.info/. > > To contact the Sackett List Admin, send a message to > SACKETT-admin@rootsweb.com. > > See list information and search the archives at > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/s/sackett.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SACKETT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >