100,000 British Home Children (alleged orphans) were sent to Canada by over 50 British Child Care organizations. These 4-15 year old children worked as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants until they were 18 years old. The British Child Care organizations professed a dominant motive of providing these children with a better life than they would have had in Britain, but they had other ignoble and pecuniary motives.

They organizations rid themselves of an unwanted segment of their society and profited when they sold these children to Canadian farmers. Siblings in care in Britain were separated from their families and each other. Siblings were separated from each other when they were sent to Canada. Most never saw each other again. Many spent their lives trying to identify their parents and find their siblings and most were unsuccessful. An unknown number of children ran away from their indentured labour in Canada to the United States. Millions of Americans may be descended from British Home Children.

The 4-5 million Canadian/American descendants of the British Home Children have 20 million British Grandparents, Uncles, and Aunts. How could this many people not know they are related to one another? Their mutual searches have been hampered by the unwillingness of the childcare organizations to readily release vital personal information.

For the past 10 years, I've been collecting every bit of information I can about as many British Home Children as I can and storing this information in the British Home Children Registry. It is a comprehensive database of 56,000 British Home Children records. It is the only multi-sending-organization database of its kind known to exist. It was designed to create an ongoing legacy to preserve BHC identities in perpetuity, and to help Canadian/American descendants and their British relatives restore their family ties so cruelly severed by the organizations involved in the British Child Emigration Scheme to Canada.

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56,000 British Home Children records

4,100 Claimed by their Descendants

4,050 WW1 Orphan Soldiers

800 Killed in Action (20%)

600 Claimed by their Descendants

400 Isle of Man Records

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UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE BRITISH HOME CHILDREN REGISTRY

Frequently Asked Questions	Answers
How many BHC records are in the BHC Registry?	56,000 records have been created.
What records are exclusive to the BHC Registry?	400 BHC Records from the Isle of Man
Did my ancestor enlist in WW1?	4,000 BHC enlisted in WW1.
Was my ancestor killed in WW1?	800 BHC were killed in WW1.
Could my ancestor have had a middle name?	15,000 first and middle names identified.
Could my ancestor’s name have been wrongly transcribed?	750 wrongly transcribed surnames identified
When was my ancestor actually born?	7,000 actual birth dates identified.
What city was my ancestor born in?	5,000 cities of birth identified.
What country was my ancestor born in?	50,000 ENG 4,000 SCL 600 IRL 200 WLS 500 IOM
What ship was my ancestor on?	56,000 ships identified.
When was my ancestor sent to Canada?	56,000 arrival dates identified.
Could my ancestor have been ‘adopted’ by someone?	1,000 informal ‘adopted by’ their masters
Could my ancestor have been known by another name?	250 “Also Known As” names identified.
How many descendants have claimed their BHC ancestors?	4,000 descendants have claimed their BHC ancestors
How many descendants provide email addresses?	4,000 descendants’ email addresses
How many descendants provide mailing addresses?	900 descendants’ mailing addresses
What organization sent my ancestor to Canada?	33,000 records with child care organizations identified.
What Canadian Distributing Home was my ancestor in?	16,000 records with Distributing Homes identified?
What UK Workhouse was my ancestor in?	3,000 records with UK workhouses identified.
Who authorized my ancestor’s emigration to Canada?	3,000 records with UK Boards of Guardians identified.
When did my ancestor and arrive in Canada	30,000 BHC with ships’ sailing details identified.
What Boys/Girls Home was my ancestor in?	3,000 records with UK Boys/Girls Homes identified.
When did my ancestor ‘come into care’?	650 records with admission dates and ages identified.
Where was my ancestor in 1901 in Canada?	2,300 BHC located in the 1901 Canadian Census.
Where was my ancestor in 1911 in Canada?	2,600 BHC located in the 1911 Canadian Census.
Where and with whom was my ancestor indentured?	7,500 BHC indenture masters identified.
Who did my ancestor marry?	1,000 spouses’ identified.
Where and when was my ancestor married?	500 marriage dates and locations identified.
Where and when did my ancestor die?	1,500 death dates identified.
Where and when did my ancestor’s spouse die?	200 spouse death dates identified.
Did my ancestor enlist in WW1?	4,000 BHC enlisted in WW1.
Was my ancestor killed in WW1?	800 BHC were killed in WW1.
What are my ancestor’s parents’ names?	1,500 Father and Mother’s names identified.
When and where did my ancestor’s parents marry?	300 Parent’s marriage place identified.
When and where did my ancestor’s parents die?	400 Father’s and 400Mother’s death dates identified.

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