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The girls show up on the Board of Guardian reports, they were taken into care in the Kensington Union Workhouse.

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/boards-guardians/Pages/list.aspx?Surname=Bond&

I can find Annie Bond in the 1911 census as an inmate of the Kensington And Chelsea, Workhouse Schools,Ewell, Surrey

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Have you tried the Ups and Downs index for any mention of these girls?
http://www.bifhsgo.ca/cstm_upsAndDowns.php

Florence is listed on my web site under deaths and burials.
http://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/park-lawn-cemetery---barnardo-plot.html

Florence Green Walker
Born: 1898
Died: Feb 1912, Toronto, Ontario
Cause: Tubercular pneumonia
 was born in 1898; in the 1901 UK census she is three years old, living with her parents George (26) and Edith (21) in Kettlestone, Norfolk, England. Also listed are her sister Ellen, age one, and her widowed grandmother Martha Walker, 62. George is shown as a carter on a farm.

I haven't been able to determine what happened to Florence's parents.

Florence was 10 when she arrived in 1908 on the Dominion, via Barnardos. Ellen Green Walker, 11, is on the same ship. (I think ellen's age is incorrect either on the passenger list or the 1901 uk census, i suspect the former.)

Unable to find florence on the 1911 census, but Ellen is in Gwillimbury, Ont, a servant for the Hambleys on their farm. I wonder what happened to ellen, and if she knew where her sister was laid to rest.

Florence Walker died Feb 1912 of Tubercular pneumonia in Toronto. Address was given as 50 Peter Street, buried from Bates & Dodds. She was 14.

Lori Oschefski

Thank you for that information Simon! It's amazing the connections and  contacts made. One of the civilian's killed, her Grandson lives 15 mins away from me here in Canada!

Attachments: from the September 1 1895 Barnardo magazine Ups and Downs - mentions Christmas`s placement at that time.

I have a large article written by Peter Aspinall as well - contact me if you`d like a copy of that as well.

I had helped a member of our Facebook Group - British Home Children Advocacy & Research Association do some research on this family and found these articles. She would likely be related...