Home Children:Brookes/Brooks

[liverpool annie]

No, that Thomas is spoken for here is his birth registration in Nova Scotia, delayed registration, but his sister states she was present when he was born.

https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1890-99100244&Event=birth&ID=220870


Karen

Oh no ! .... thought we had a good one !! 

[J.J.]

Oh, so sorry Annie.. all that work......exactly why I shouldn't post spec....but then one never knows... ?

[J.J.]

Creamore, Wem, Shrewsbury, UK
O.K. can finally wrap my mind around the Wales / Shropshire thing...I guess Creamore was once part of Wales, or right at the border? I have to admit my ignorance when it comes to boundaries....
Births December quarter 1894
Brookes, George
dist: Wem  vol. 6a  p.666

an Ernest Brooks died Sydney, Cape Breton County in 1955...but you'll have to send for the image to see if it is the right person...although it might not have much more than what we see here...https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1955-6121&Event=death&ID=375296

[KarenM]

I think what you see is what you get, just that you get a paper copy 

Karen

[Tony55]

 
  Karen,
       I just don't know how to start to thank you and everyone else who have obviously spent hour's delving into their backgrounds, i send you all my most heartfelt thanks and if i can ever do anything to help you out please ask!
       I must admit i've just shed a little  when i read what poor Ernest would have gone through, i'm so glad the other two seem to have faired better!
       I can't understand how they wouldn't have known where they came from, they came from the Wrenbury,Edstaston,Harmer Hill area around Wem.
       One thing puzzles me though, would they have been kept together when they arrived or would they have been sent straight out to placements? The thought that they wouldn't have seen each other again is hard to bear, especialy for 7yr old Ernest in a strange country, i think i will have to be careful what i tell my Aunt.
       I'm going to have another read through cause it hasn't all sunk in properly yet, once again thank you all so much 

   And Karen, please pass on my most gracious thank's to your detective friend, i will be forever grateful to him.

best wishes, Tony

modified  oh, just looked at Georges sign up paper where he cites Ernest as next of kin, so they must have stayed in touch, that's nice to know. Thanks for that J.J.  should read all information before posting.

[J.J.]

Montgomeryshire and Shropshire?..The reason I thought all was making sense was because some of my
ancestor's family were registered as Atcham, Montgomeryshire and some Shrewsbury...
Creamore is only a mile North of Wem... also sometimes people remember where they were raised, rather than where they were born ?

[Tony55]

Hi J.J.

 The Shropshire/ Mongommeryshire border changed quite often over the ages. My OH has family from Newport way and they jump between England and wales a couple of times in the census, yet they didn't move from the same village!
 Makes searching more fun.   

 Tony

[Miss Trees]

Hi Tony,

On arrival in Canada, the 'home children' would have been sent to a 'receiving home', in the Brookes boys case probably the Middlemore home in Fairview, Nova Scotia, until a home was found for them or they were interviewed and 'chosen' by a farmer. From what I've read there was little attempt to keep siblings together or in contact after that.

The farmer would be expected to train them, and provide room and board and education. The children did not always receive education or proper care despite the fact that this was supposed to be monitored and reported on by the agency.  From any little earnings, the child was also expected to reimburse their agency for their passage to Canada (at least in the case of my grandfather - other organisations may have been different).

For some good background on the homechild movement, here is something by the Ontario Heritage Foundation:
http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/userfiles/page_attachments/Library/1/1730820_Home_Children_ENG.pdf

[Miss Trees]

I suppose this does not add much more to what we already know but this appears to be George in the 1911 census:
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/View.jsp?id=72069&highlight=46&desc=1911+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Angus+McSween
Except his age seems wrong...

Getting frustrated trying to view the NovaScotiagenealogy records... keeps crashing my browser!