This is probably the wrong place to lodge this request - so apologies. Is anyone aware of the "rules" governing which children's home a child was placed in?
In my tree I have a girl, born in 1900 in South Shields, Durham - but in the 1911 Census she is in the Barnardo's Home in Essex. Her father had died in 1903 in Durham, and I can't find her mother in the 1911 census, although she died in South Shields in 1918. How was it possible for a child from Durham to end up in a home in Essex? The following year the child was sent to Canada, where her brother had been sent in 1909.
Thanks