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I will try to keep you informed of any new sources of information I come across as I do my research. There is a group in the Ottawa area working to create an index from the ships passenger lists. I will try to find out more about this project and keep you informed of their progress.

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Article from New Brunswick

New Announcement From the British Government

The British Government has announced that £1.6million has been set aside to help reunite home children with their families. For details see CBC NewsWorld .

British Government Report on Child Migrants

The British Government Subcommittee on Child Migrants handed out their report on July 28, 1998. This report recommends that a database be set up containing the names of the children and that financial assistance be offered to those seeking their families. The full report is available on the House of Commons web pages.

Home Children Reunion

Middlemore Reunion 2002 - Saturday, September 7th, 2002, at the Sussex Lions Den Hall, was the site of this years Home Children and descendants reunion. An enjoyable day was spent by over 135 individuals from as far away as Vancouver, Calgary and Ontario, and with 20 registered from Nova Scotia. The remainder of our gathering came from Campbellton, Moncton, Fredericton, Centerville, Woodstock, Saint John and our local surrounding area.

Three surviving Home Children from the Middlemore Homes of Birmingham, England were our Honored guests. Annie Cairns of Fredericton, Sid Coles of Fredericton, and Arthur Weston of Centerville were able to reunite with several other friends for the day. Unable to be present was Elsie Hatheway of Plaster Rock, William Bell of Bible Hill, NS, and Gwen Pottie of Cape Breton, NS.

In 1995, Annie Cairns had the privilege of assisting in the presentation of a special plaque to honor the Home Children at the Wandlyn Inn in Bedford, NS, the site of the Middlemore Home known as the Fairview Station. In 1999 due to receivership of the Inn, the plaque disappeared. It has been with great interest to our Nova Scotia constituents that a new plaque is erected at this original site and they wish to pursue the issue through the assistance of Heritage Canada to replace this plaque on a monument at this the original site.

Books

For those who might be interested, The Liverpool Catholic organization has been renamed to The Nugent Care Society. They have reprinted a book published in 1949 on the life of Father Nugent called Father Nugent of Liverpool. The book is available for £5 plus £1 postage from
Publications & Appeals Department,
The Nugent Care Society
150 Brownlow Hill
Liverpool, L3 5RF
Phone: 0151-708 0566 (and they will take Visa or MasterCard).
Since postage to Canada costs a little more you might want to add a little extra to cover that as this is a charitable organization.

Church of England Waifs and Strays

"An item from the summer magazine of the Children's Society (formerly the C of E Waifs and Strays Society) is sent by Prebendary Arthur Royall (2496) which will be good news to those researching into children's care. The British Library has awarded the Children's Society Archive a grant of 10,000 pounds to start cataloguing an index project involving the first 6,000 children's care files, covering the years 1882-1896. This will allow the files to become a readily accessible resource for Society staff, the relatives of people who have been in care, together with family historians and academic researchers."

This is from the COCKNEY ANCESTOR, the newsletter of the East of London Family History Society.

NAC

These records are now available.

NAC has the Middlemore records and a list of all of the children which came with the Church of England's Waifs and Strays Society.

And these will be soon.

LDS

The LDS people are microfilming the records from the Gibbs Home, Sherbrooke, Quebec. This home was run by the Church of England, Waifs and Strays Society.

If any one has additional information please contact me.

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