Commemorating British Home Child Day with over 2,000 new records

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By Daisy Goddard | September 27, 2024

We've added important records from Britain and Canada this week.

We've added three brand new Home Children record sets to our existing collection this week. These additions offer a detailed glimpse into an often-forgotten chapter in history.

Search Home Children Collection

With emigration reports, lodgings registers and newspaper cuttings, there are a total of 2,213 new images for you to explore.

Why not use these new records to dive into the story of Britain's Home Children today?

Colonial Office, Emigration to Canada Enclosures to Reports

The first of our trio of new Home Children record sets consists of 1,888 transcriptions and images from the Canadian Colonial Office. These reports document children who emigrated from Britain to Canada between 1887 and 1892

An emigration report from 1888.

In addition to a child's name, age and emigration year, these records may tell you where an individual moved from, and where they ended up in Canada. For many children, there is also a detailed description of their situation within the original record image.

Register of Boys arrived in Toronto House of Industry

This week's second new set is a collection of 250 register entries, documenting boys and men who the Toronto House of Industry received between 11858 and 1864. The Toronto House of Industry was a lodging house that catered to Toronto's poor and was part of the Home Children scheme in the 19th century.

Each record has both a transcription and an original image.

News-Cuttings Of Dr. Barnardo

To further expand our collective understanding of the Home Children scheme, we've also published a collection of browse-only news cuttings about the life and work of Dr Barnado.

Missionary Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin in 1845. From the creation of the first Barnardo's children's home in 1867 to his death in 1905, almost 60,000 children had passed through his various institutions.

A Barnardo's Home in Birkdale, Lancashire.

Barnardo's homes played an important role in the Home Children scheme, and these news clippings provide relevant context for understanding this chapter in history.

New titles from Northumberland and Newport

We added a duo of new titles from Northumberland and Wales to our collection this week, so if you've got roots in Alnwick or Newport, these pages from the 19th and 20th centuries are not to be missed.

Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser, 1 June 1889.

But that's not all - we've also updated 21 of our existing publications, with a total of 146,33 new pages added.

Here's everything we added to our newspaper collection this Findmypast Friday.

New titles:

Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser, 1889, 1910-1911
Newport Pagnell Citizen, 1994

Updated titles:

Barnoldswick & Earby Times, 1957, 1959, 1976-1978, 1994-1995
Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 1951-1959, 1972-1977, 1993
Biggleswade Chronicle, 1994
Brighouse Echo, 1893, 1994-1995, 1997, 1999
Buxton Advertiser, 1965, 1967, 1983
Buxton Herald, 1893-1894, 1900, 1905
Chorley Guardian, 1993, 1996-1997
Derbyshire Times, 1987
Eastbourne Gazette, 1961-1962, 1964, 1966, 1970-1972, 1979, 1984
Eastbourne Herald, 1968, 1973, 1976-1985
Falkirk Herald, 1996
Harrogate Advertiser and Weekly List of the Visitors, 1854, 1860, 1866, 1872
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1992
Hull Daily News, 1916, 1923
Kirkintilloch Herald, 1961
Lancing Herald, 2002
Motherwell Times, 1990
Nelson Leader, 1997
Sussex Express, 1974-1975
West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 2000
Whitley Bay Guardian, 1997

Last week we added Devon parish records and more. Explore the full release here.