This week’s Findmypast Friday includes the following new & updated collections.
Home Children Collection – Canada
This Findmypast Friday see three new sets added to Home Children collection this week, enabling the tracing of the migrations of 130,000 children in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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
This Home Children set comes from Poplar in East London and contains the names of 76 children who participated in the scheme.
Criminal Records
Details of women who ran into trouble with the law between 1865 and 1907, you may find ancestors within this new set of crime records.
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