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From: "Bob Biers" <>
Subject: Re: [Orphanages] London area
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:12:30 -0400
References: <000c01c3f002$aa91f980$fde7add1@hudson> <000701c3f030$70faffe0$33bd4518@pk.shawcable.net>


Warren....you might like to subscribe to this mailing list:
People on the list helped me find all
kinds of wonderful information about my British Home Child grandmother who
had kept her secret to the grave. Fanny KEATING came to Canada from
Bristol, England via Liverpool with four siblings in 1908 (1886-1978).

Sherry
Nova Scotia, Canada


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob & Helen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Orphanages] London area


> Hi Warren, Perhaps London Ancestor-Genealogy will help. Input that in your
> search machine. The largest orphanages in the time period you want would
> most likely have been Dr.Barnardo's Homes but as you are looking for
> Catholic orphanages maybe the Catholic Church in Britain would help. Many
> orphanages in London sent their children out of London ( even overseas)
> during WW11 because of the blitz and even in those dates you mentioned
there
> were still children being sent to Canada and other parts to work on farms
> etc. Some of the children have never been able to find their families.
There
> is a site about Home Children as they were called but I don't have the
> address. Your search machine would find it or try Ask Jeeves/uk Helen in
> Canada
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "whudson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:20 AM
> Subject: [Orphanages] London area
>
>
> > I am finding it very difficult to find information about the residents
of
> > a Catholic Orphanage/School located in the Sidcup-Chislehurst area
> > of southeast London in the 1930-1950 time frame. Would appreciate
> > any information where to start at from anyone.
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> > Warren in USA
> >
> >
>
>
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