Henry John Eustace - child "emigrated" to Canada

[avm228]

My relative Henry John Eustace, born 1867 Paddington, London, was one of a group of children from Feltham (Middlesex) Industrial School sent to Canada on the SS Parisian departing Liverpool 24 May 1883 and arriving Quebec 3 Jun 1883 (according to online info re British Home Children).   

I'm wondering whether anybody can help me trace what happened to Henry thereafter? Canadian records now online at ancestry.com don't seem to list him and I can't find later info on him on the BHC sites either.

Any help would be much appreciated - thanks in advance

Anna

[KarenM]

Hi Anna,

Not sure if you seen this link, but has some useful information

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd.html

Karen

[jorose]

Can't seem to see him on the 1901 census - www.automatedgenealogy.com  Do you know where he was sent after arriving in Quebec? (This might be in the Feltham records or on the ship list).  I have one who arrived into Halifax but ended up in NB since that's where the man at the other end was placing the boys.

Wherever he was placed, he could have left at 18, just two years after he arrived, and ended up just about anywhere! Possibly you could also check US records for him?

[KarenM]

There's a Henry Eustace in Montreal, PQ in the 1911, says he was born in 1876 though and his year of immigration was 1898.  He's married to Helen and has a son Harold?

I read that children from Feltham went to either, Quebec, Ontario or Manitoba.

I looked at the database for Home Children and he is not listed with a "party".  Maybe like Jorose said he could have gone to the States.

Karen

[KarenM]

Maybe he went back to England?  Have you checked the 91 and 01 over there?

Karen

[avm228]

Many thanks for your responses, Karen and jorose. I'm completely flummoxed about Henry as he doesn't appear in later censuses for England/Wales or the US and as Karen rightly says the only Henry Eustace coming up in available Canadian censuses seems to be much younger and immigrated later. The ship's list (or at least the online searchable record of it) doesn't give his destination, so I know nothing about where he went once he got off the ship. I'm thinking it's likely he died young, but I'm keeping fingers crossed that I'm wrong and there was a happy ending for him out there somewhere!

I should perhaps have made clear that I'm not descended from Henry - he's a cousin rather than an ancestor - so it is entirely possible he could have died shortly after arrival in Canada.

thanks again

Anna