THE BRITISH HOME CHILDREN

THE BRITISH CHILD EMIGRATION SCHEME TO CANADA (1870-1957)

100,000 British Home Children (alleged orphans) were sent to Canada by over 50 British Child Care organizations. These 4-15 year old children worked as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants until they were 18 years old. The organizations professed a dominant motive of providing these children with a better life than they would have had in Britain, but they had other ignoble and pecuniary motives… More at --
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~britishhomechildren/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Children 
Please contact Library and Archives Canada concerning copies of any documents. Website: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html 

For more information on British child emigration to Australia, see: 
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs124.aspx

	Surname	Given Name	Age	Sex	Ship	Year of Arrival	
1.	GILLILAND	David	18	M	Melita	1929	
2.	GILLILAND	James	16	M	Duchess of York	1930	
3.	GILLILAND	Rebecca	11	F	Parisian	1896	

Surname: GILLILAND Given Name: David
Age: 18
Sex: M
Ship: Melita
Year of Arrival: 1929
Departure Port: Belfast
Departure Date: 1929-06-01
Arrival Port: Quebec
Arrival Date: 1929-06-08
Party: London, England
Destination: Norval, Ontario
Comments: 16 Irish boys going to the United Church of Canada Hostel at Norval. Film T-14754
Notes: Vol. 9, p. 36
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Reference: RG 76 C1a
Microfilm: T-14754
Type of Record: Passenger Lists

Surname: GILLILAND
Given Name: James
Age: 16
Sex: M
Ship: Duchess of York
Year of Arrival: 1930
Departure Port: Belfast
Departure Date: 1930-06-27
Arrival Port: Quebec
Arrival Date: 1930-07-04
Party: British Immigration and Colonization Association
Destination: British Immigration and Colonial Association Hostel, Montreal, Quebec
Notes: Vol. 11, p. 57
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Reference: RG 76 C1a
Microfilm: T-14765
Type of Record: Passenger Lists

Surname: GILLILAND
Given Name: Rebecca
Age: 11
Sex: F
Ship: Parisian
Year of Arrival: 1896
Departure Port: Liverpool
Departure Date: 1896-05-07
Arrival Port: Quebec
Arrival Date: 1896-05-16
Party: Liverpool Sheltering Home, Mrs. Birt
Destination: Knowlton, Quebec
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Reference: RG 76, Vol 32, File 724, Part 1, Documents from Immigration Branch, Central Registry Files
Microfilm: C-4690