Discover new Home Children stories
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By Daisy Goddard | February 28, 2025
Explore new records from England, Canada and beyond.
We added three new sets to our Home Children collection this week, so it's easier than ever to trace the migrations of 130,000 children in the 19th and 20th centuries.
We can illuminate Home Children's stories in vivid detail with Poor Law lists and local government records.
We also added 220, 681 pages to our newspaper archive this Findmypast Friday.
Boarded-out Children and Home Children sent to Canada
These records document children who were placed with British families before being sent to live in Canada under the Home Child scheme.
Emigration of Poor Law Children
The 261 records in this new set contain key details, such as the name, birth year, and age of each child who moved overseas.
Poplar Poor Law Union, Home Children lists
The last of our new Home Children sets comes from Poplar in East London and contains the names of 76 children who participated in the scheme.
Women Sentenced, 1865-1907
If your female ancestor ran into trouble with the law between 1865 and 1907, you may find her within this new set of crime records.
New pages from Matlock to Mitcham
220,681 new pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with three new English titles and updates to a further 53 publications.
New titles:
Hastings and Bexhill Independent, 1873-1895
Howdenshire Chronicle, 1895, 1897, 1901, 1910, 1913-1914, 1920-1926, 1928-1938
Mitcham Advertiser, 1909-1930, 1932-1933
Updated titles:
Banbury Guardian, 1992
Banffshire Herald, 1987-1989
Barrhead News, 1918
Berwick Advertiser, 1980-1982
Bournemouth Times and Directory, 1889
Bridgnorth Journal, 1951-1952, 2004
Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press, 1964-1969
Buteman, 1871, 1879-1881, 1883, 1886, 1890-1891
Caithness Courier, 1967-1969, 1980-1985, 1987, 1990, 1994
Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, 1986-1987, 2004
Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, and Penrith Literary Chronicle, 1876, 1878, 1894-1896
Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware’s Whitehaven Advertiser, 1880-1881
Dromore Leader, 1989
Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1998
Dundee Weekly News, 1988, 1994-1998
Dunstable Gazette, 2004
Durham County Advertiser, 1842-1848, 1860
East Anglian Daily Times, 1897, 1912
Eastbourne Gazette, 1992, 1997
Eastbourne Herald, 1959, 1967
Falkirk Herald, 1992, 1995
Fife Free Press, 1957, 1987
Garstang Courier, 1990, 2004
Grimsby News, 1877, 1889
Halifax Evening Courier, 1990
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1959, 1968
Hereford Journal, 1864-1865, 1870-1871, 1922-1923
Huntly Express, 1993
Lancashire Evening Post, 1989, 1992
Lancaster Observer and Morecambe Chronicle, 1875-1876, 1896, 1910-1912, 1914, 1927, 1929
Leamington Spa Courier, 1983
Louth Leader, 2003
Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle, 1963, 1967
Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail, 2004
Matlock Mercury, 1991
Mid-Ulster Mail, 1987
Montgomeryshire Express, 1889, 1950
Newton and Earlestown Guardian, 1889, 1910, 1913, 1963-1964
Northern Scot and Moray & Nairn Express, 1993
Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald, 2004
Pearson’s Weekly, 1914-1917
Rugby Advertiser, 1872, 1975, 1991
Ruislip & Northwood Informer, 1997
Shropshire Star, 1992
Skegness Standard, 1960-1962
Sleaford Standard, 1992, 2004
South Shropshire Journal, 1995
Todmorden & District News, 1986-1987, 1995, 1997
Todmorden Advertiser and Hebden Bridge Newsletter, 1870, 1912
Ulster Star, 1988
West Sussex County Times, 1999
Yarmouth Independent, 1928-1931
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1961, 1964, 1971, 1984, 1992
