Home Children:Brookes/Brooks

[Tony55]

Hi,
  One of my Aunt's would love to find out some information on 3 of 4 uncles she never had chance to meet. Of her mother's 4 brother's, 1 was sent to Australia and the other 3 went to Canada.

  Thanks to a link in the Home Children to Canada thread i've managed to find Thomas (11) George (10) and Ernest (7) Brookes shipped out from Liverpool on the 20th June 1905 to Halifax , arriving on 1st July 1905 aboard the Siberian as part of a party of 142 children from Middlemore's Homes, Birmingham.

  My Aunt's mother was brought up from an early age by her grandparent's and had little to do with her brother's, their mother (Emily) died 1904 Q2 Wem  6a 430.
  She would love to know if it's possible to find out what would have happened to them when they arrived in Canada so any pointers as to where to start searching would be much appreciated.

  Thanks for any help you may be able to give, i've no experience at all of searching overseas information.

  Regards, Tony 

[dollylee]

Hi Tony.

Before anyone tried to search further for these boys I just thought I would point out that the ages given are not actually necessarily the correct age at time of sailing see explanation at : http://www.bifhsgo.ca/home_children_index_how.htm

They state that the age could be recorded in one of four ways:

1. age in years on date of application/admission
2. age at a specific date (past or next birthday)
3. age in specified month and year
4. age in a specific year

The record shows:  Ships arrival June 20, 1905

                   Age             Age Date

Thomas        11             November 1, 1904   *suggests date of admission
George         10             December 26, 1904 *suggests date of admission
Ernest            7             November 14, 1905  *suggests age at next birthday

The * statements are mine as I interpret the table for date the age given was/would be right.

dollylee


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[Tony55]

Thanks dollylee 

 for anyone who may be able to help i have the family on the 1901 census.

 RG13/2553/111/8 in Shawbury.

father,mother and the 4 boys:

William aged 11 who went to Australia
Thomas aged 8 to Canada
George aged  6 to Canada
Ernest  aged  3 to Canada

their ages on the census confirms the ages given on the shipping list.

thanks for any assistance.

best wishes,Tony

[KarenM]

Hi Tony,

You can search the 1911 Canadian census for free at www.automatedgenealogy.com

Karen

[KarenM]

Looking at the passenger list they were headed for the Middlemore Home in Nova Scotia.

karen

[Tony55]

Hi Karen, thanks for that information,
 it mentioned something about them being headed for the "lower provinces" could you give me some idea of what area of Canada that would be please?
 dollylee has given me an e-mail address of an organization to contact reguarding any records they may hold, so i'm going to give that a try later tonight.

thanks very much, Tony

[KarenM]

Hi Tony,

The passenger lists said Halifax which is in Nova Scotia. 

I'm not sure exactly what the lower provinces would be at that time  , but I assume the Atlantic Provinces, not including Newfoundland and Labrador because they didn't become apart of Canada till 1949.

I know Upper Canada is now the Province of Ontario and Lower Canada is the Province of Quebec. 

Karen

[Tony55]

  Hi Karen,

  Thanks for that, i've had a quick look at the 1911 but am afraid my geographical knowledge of Canada is limited to say the least! 
  Hopefully it will help to tighten the search a little but i'm pinning my hopes on an e-mail i've sent!
  I'm searching on behalf of an Aunt whose 86 and has no pc access except via myself, but although she's next of kin to her uncles i'm not blood related at all (she's my Aunt via marriage to my father's younger brother) so i hope they'll respond to me!
  Thanks once again, Tony

[KarenM]

LOL Tony, it's a big country.  I used to always get confused with Lower Canada and Upper Canada.  I live in Ontario and Quebec is above us, so it seemed to me that we should be lower Canada   

Did the boys have any middle names? 

Karen