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From: Annie Newnham <>
Subject: Re: [AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH] [nz] New List: CHILD-MIGRANTS-UK
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:09:41 +1200
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Thanks Betty

I'm one of those....child migrants that is....England to NZ 1951.

Cheers
Annie

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ms Betty Fredericks <>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I hope the Administrator of this List does not mind if I tell the
> researchers on this List that I have just been approved to start up a new
> List:
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> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/UK/CHILD-MIGRANTS-UK.html
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> It is meant for all the "child migrants" which were either shipped to or
> flown to the British Colonies. This "child migrant scheme" went on from
> 1860 to 1970 - about 100 years. And, possibly close to 150,000 unwanted or
> needy children were sent of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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> If it is not a problem, I will offer more information on another day.
>
>
> Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)
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> ( on Lists for almost 9 yrs.; now an Admin for 9 Lists,
> including CORKILL and CAN-USA-Migration )
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> (My great-grandparents, "Stanley" LEWIS and Mary CORKILL, were born in
> ~1860 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, and were shipped to Canada in 1874.
> They and Mary's siblings all went to different families in Nova Scotia.
> In Canada this is "2010, the Year of the British Home Child.")
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