The Barley Grain For Me (O.J. Abbott and Pete Seeger)
O.J. [Oliver John] Abbott, Home Child, singing “The Barley Grain For Me” with Pete Seeger, at the Newport Folk Festival,…
Home Children
How many Home Children?
How many Home Children have I come across in the 1891 and 1901 Canadian census returns, while searching for my…
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James Fitzpatrick: Home Child
Found in the household of John Rowan and his wife Emma Hogan (Emily Julia Hogan, daughter of John Hogan and…
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Home Children: Open Secrets (Part 1)
“Could you look up Mary Hogan?” asked my dad’s cousin Aggie. “I think she may have been,” and this added…
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Bridget McCann: Friend or Relation?
In records pertaining to my McGlade-Dunne ancestors, who emigrated from Co. Armagh, Ireland to Counties Leeds and Lanark, Ontario, the…
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Elizabeth Bowles: Home Child
Found in the household of Richard Tovey and his wife Catherine Gorman1 in the 1891 census of Bathurst township (Lanark…
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Lizzie Dickens (Dickinson?): Home Child
Found in the household of James Quinn and his wife Mary Ann Vallely in the 1891 census of Lanark (Lanark…
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William Dickison (Dickinson?): Home Child
Found in the household of the widowed Michael Vallely in the 1891 census of Lanark (Ontario, Lanark North, p. 34,…
