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THE BRITISH HOME CHILDREN

                                                             

1927 - 1984 Search

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    Frederick George Snow

 

    17/09/1909 – 17/09/1994

  

    A British Home Child

   

 

 

 Perry Snow MA Psychologist

 

 A Stolen Identity Reclaimed

 

 Meeting British Relatives

 

 

 

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The

British

Home Children

Registry

 

 

56,000 BHC Records

  3,800 Claimed by Descendants

 

  4,000 WW1 Orphan Soldiers (A-K)   (L-Z)

  1,000 Killed in WW1

     500 Claimed by Descendants

 

2,300 Found on 1901 Canadian Census

2,600 Found on 1911 Canadian Census

7,500 Found on Farm Indentures

1,000 “Adopted by” Name Changes

   375 Isle of Man BHC Records

 

Sample of Complete BHC Registry Record

 

 

            THE BRITISH CHILD EMIGRATION SCHEME TO CANADA (1870-1957)

 

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 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.

 


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