Hi, JJ
I have just come across these posts on the 'British Home Children In Nova Scotia' and searches for Clara and Harriet Hampton. My mother Amy Hampton would have been a distant cousin of the two girls Clara and Harriet. I have been researching the various parts of the family for the last 20 years. I have recently made contact with a number of other researchers in the last year who have helped in finalising what happened to the two girls. They were the children of John Hampton (1870-1901) and Mary Ann Drayford (1871-1951). John and his family worked on the canals as did his father Absalom and his grandfather William before him. John died in in 190l and the family got into difficulties. Clara and Harriet were taken into care and passed on to the Middlemore Children's Home. A picture exists of their departure to the the Fairview Home in Nova Scotia, Canada. Their brother, Joseph was placed in a Dr Barnardo's Home. He eventually ended up in Newcastle on Tyne and worked as a Waterman for the Tyne Commission. Eliza their eldest sister is tracked to London and marries an Australian Soldier.
Eliza sailed out to Australia with her new son after her husband was demobbed. Unfortunately she died in 1920. To end quickly, I have been in touch with David Smith, the son of Harriet (Hampton) and Ernest Bayne Smith Bayne Smith. Pleased to pass on further information or contact researchers who have posted on this forum in the past.