Dec 10 2005

Canadian Orphans & Home Children Records online

Olive Tree Genealogy has added a list of orphans in the Loyal True Blue Orphanage in Picton Ontario in 1901, plus two postcard photos. Also you will find four  lists of Home Children from England to Canada Miss Rye’s Peckham Homes in 1881  Miss Rye’s Party 1881 on SS Sarmation to Quebec Father Nugent’s Orphans [...]

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Dec 2 2005

Child Apprentices in America from Christ’s Hospital, London England 1617- 1778

A new database has just been put online for Child Apprentices in America from Christ’s Hospital, London 1617- 1778. This is an index only (full name plus page number) but a link is provided for lookup requests on Books We Own. Christ’s Hospital was established in 1553 for the benefit of orphaned children or those [...]

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