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Record #5535
Name :
: Harold BOUCHER (1915 - 2008)


Father
:
Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 23 Oct 1915   Notes : Source: Fairbridge Kids; WWII record

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 16 Aug 2008   Notes : Source: MCB WA
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Staffordshire, Wolverhampton
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialAustralia, Western Australia, Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Died of pneumonia
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: Mar 1928
Country
: Australia

Ship
: Benalla

Placement Family
:
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Fairbridge Homes
NotesA birth registration was found for Harold Boucher: Year of Registration: 1915; Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec; Mother's Maiden Name: Pearce; District: Wolverhampton; County: Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands; Volume: 6b; Page: 919. Parents: Rueben Boucher and May Pearce, married 1908, Dudley, Staffordshire, England.

Harry Boucher told his story on the Coolgardie Gem & Mineral Club website ({website}myweb.westnet.com.au/ausgold1/harry_boucher.htm and reproduced in part):

"My only memory of my mother was of her being loaded into an ambulance and nobody knows what happened to her after that ? none of my living relatives seem to know!

My father married an Irish woman and I went to live with my aunt and was later put into an immigration centre in Birmingham. The boys and girls were separated. One day the matron came and asked which of us would like to go to Canada ? I thought it was too cold so I didn?t put my hand up! Then she asked which of us would like to go to Australia? I had an uncle in the Northern Territory on Jindare Station and my aunty had told me stories about him so I was first to put my hand up! A party of 28 boys from different orphanages were all kitted out with new clothes, suites, overcoats and hats with peaks and a bit of pocket money ready to go. My father and aunty came to see me off and we first went to London where we all stayed at the YMCA for 3 days. The boat for Australia ? The SS Benally [sic], left from Tilbury Docks in London and it took 6 weeks to reach Australia. We left London in 1928 in January and arrived in Fremantle on March 3. I was 12 years old and it was the biggest adventure in my life. The boat called in to different tropical islands on the way and islanders would row out to our ship selling all sorts of tropical fruit we had never seen before. Some of the boys stole books from the Masters cabin and sent them down on ropes to the small boats in exchange for fruit which was then hauled back up in baskets.

At Cape Town we stopped for three days while the ship loaded up with coal as it was a steamer and used the coal for fuel. The Africans carried the coal up in baskets on their heads in a continuous stream for 3 days! We went sightseeing in Cape Town and went up Table Mountain. Wherever we went we had Africans waiting on us and anything we asked for. We were treated like royalty.

After leaving Cape Town the seas became rough and the waves often towered above the ship but it was really exciting. One day we were having races on the deck and my hat blew off and that was the last I saw of it! The crew were good to us and the cook often brought out a big tray of plum pudding for us boys.

Our first glimpse of the Australian coast was disappointing; it looked so dry and desolate. After landing we stayed in the WMCA in Perth for a few days before catching a train to Pinjarra. All 28 of us were sent to the Fairbridge farm. I stayed in the Henry Hudson cottage but left school there at age 14 and started domestic work around the farm. They taught me a lot though.

First I worked in the kitchen with its huge stoves and coppers. The kitchen had to be swept and mopped out every day. Then I went to work in the huge bakehouse and learnt to bake bread. One day I was chopping wood for the oven and eating a crust of bread and the warden slapped me for eating the bread which I was entitled to have because I was working in the bakehouse at the time. I was so upset by this that I ran away and camped in the bush for three days. I actually enjoyed camping in the bush on my own and thought it was a great adventure but when I eventually returned I had to report to the colonel and he made me drop my strides and gave me a good caning. He then gave us all a lecture about going out in the bush and getting lost and how dangerous it was.

I was then sent to work in the piggery, then the market garden and then the orchard. In the dairy I learnt how to milk a cow and in the butchers I learnt how to butcher sheep, pigs and bullocks and how to dress them. We made our own bacon by smoking it in a huge fireplace Then I went to work with the teamster doing ploughing and harvesting. I got a good grounding in every aspect of farming at Fairbridge. They were paying me then 10 shillings to work on the farm but 5 shillings went back to Fairbridge. This 5 shillings was later returned to us as a lump sum when we turned 21 but without any interest!

At age 15 Fairbridge sent me to work on a sheep and wheat farm at Dalwallinu called Petworth Park and it was here that I got my first sniff of gold. The station was owned by Phil Gaucher (who painted the curtain in the Boulder Town Hall). Phil would come to the farm and one day he brought up Charlie Newman a signwriter with him and he pointed out the low bare hills which had been cleared and which looked just like the ones near Kalgoorlie.

Charlie walked up to those hills and came back with a quartz rock with gold in it. I spent a lot of time looking for more gold specimens there but with no luck but at the time I didn?t know anything about dollying for gold.

A neighbouring farmer came along and offered me 15 shillings a week to work for him ? I was rich! It was the most money I had seen in my life but Fairbridge wanted me back and I had to go back but got my first ride then in a motorcar.

Fairbridge then hired me out to other farms but all I got was 5 shillings again.

After being sent to a very primitive dairy farm at Capel I decided to jump a goods train to Pinjarra and that is where I struck another bloke and we both jumped trains to Merredin and then Kulin. My mate told me to chuck my gear away and just make a swag with a blanket. So we went ?on tramp? like swagmen getting odd jobs in return for food and camping in creek beds. I ended up jumping a train to Coolgardie and I was about 16 then. At the time blokes ?on tramp? camped in the loco room at Coolgardie because it was warm and there was always a fire going. I got a few odd jobs around town and got a job as a woodchopper at the Convent for 2s. 6d. plus tucker. They couldn?t believe how quickly I got through all their mallee wood pile and I soon ran out of work with them. I then jumped the train to Kalgoorlie and ended up digging septic drains for a realestate agent. I had to shovel out the rubbish and rocks, deepen the trench and cover them over. There were 15 to do and I was paid two pound a day. I considered myself a rich man and booked into a boarding house. By then Fairbridge had tracked me down again and a policeman came to see me. I was put on another farm and then on a sheep station in Carnarvon, which was a real rough squatters farm and the work, was long and hard. I was then about 20 and decided to write to my uncle in Pine Creek telling him I would work my way up to the Northern Territory when I left there. At age 21 Fairbridge let me go and sent me the 90 pound they owed me.

I always felt like an outsider when I worked for Fairbridge as there was a bit of a stigma attached to being a ?Fairbridge Boy?.

I then got some odd jobs in Carnarvon but a policeman came looking for me to tell me that my uncle in Pine Creek had just died from lockjaw after cutting his hand. So I changed my mind about catching a boat going north and took a boat to Perth instead and made my way back to the Goldfields. I suppose my life was set out for me from that point onwards as I then went to work in the gold mines.

I got my first job in a gold mine at Paynes Find as a machine offsider and here they taught me how to use a jackhammer but my main job was to shovel the dirt. I was still only 19 or 20. I then got another job at another mine near-by. The work was dirty and dusty as the owner wouldn?t allow us any water to keep the dust down. I persuaded the other guys to go on strike as I told them the quartz dust would kill us but the other blokes ended up going back to work but I decided to leave. I got a lift to Mount Magnet but there was no work there. I met a bloke who told me I should go to Big Bell near Cue as there was work there. As soon as I got there I stood outside the office every morning with a mob of others looking for work. There they took your name and waited for them to call you up. At the time they preferred the young fellas with no experience as they could teach them up the way they wanted. So I got a job straight away. They were desperate for men at that time and needed 400. This was the most modern mine in Australia at the time.

My first job in Kalgoorlie was as an undeground ?trucker? at the Great Boulder shovelling dirt into a truck for two bob a truckload. You had to push the truck out to the shaft and pick up an empty one take it back, fill it up and do that all day. There was always plenty of work for a trucker. Then I was offsider to a machine miner and I learnt how to drill and fire and sink shafts, man-ways and stoping, I worked on every shaft in the mine ? six in all. One day I picked up a very heavy rock from a rich stope and dropped it down the man-way to the level down below without looking and it fell right at the feet of the shift boss. That rock was nearly all solid gold and the shift boss said thank-you and took it away!

We would take the rubber out of the fracture box and make crib bags out of it. Some blokes used their crib bag to take rich specimen rock out of the mine and later they used their thermos flasks. There was often a gold buyer in the Boulder Block Hotel who would be waiting to buy the gold from the miners . If you were found with telluride though you would be in real trouble as the gold squad would know exactly where it came from as there were only two places in the world where it is found ? an island in the Pacific and underground at the Golden Mile.

When war broke out in 39 I enlisted in the army as all the young blokes thought it would be a great adventure and I had the idea I would be sent back to England. A whole trainload of us left Kalgoorlie and camped at the Claremont Show Ground and were later transferred to Northam. The food there was terrible though and the meat was full of maggots. I got crook during training with suspected ulcers and ended up in a hospital but they couldn?t find what was wrong with me and I was discharged. I went back to the Great Boulder where they were pleased to have me back because so many miners had left for the war. I got crook again and doctor Webster told me to go to Esperance where I ended up staying for 5 years. I would go fishing in the summer and back prospecting in the winter. I made a rough boat with a sail made from a chaff bag and went fishing. Everyone thought I would drown in that boat. I eventually went to a different doctor and was diagnosed with a diseased gall bladder. They operated on me and took it out including my appendix and I haven?t been crook since.

In 1954 I found gold in quartz at Kumarl which is 19km north of Salmon Gums but it wasn?t really payable at that time. Then in Esperance when I was cutting fence posts I met Harold Eldridge and he had a show at the Beete Mine and I pegged a claim next to him. I did a bit of prospecting there but Harold was always talking about Ryans Find and that?s where I ended up prospecting for three years. When I was broke I would go back to the Great Boulder on wages. One of my best finds was by my Blue Heeler dog - I had been taking soil samples all day up and down gullies with no luck and decided to go back to my car. I would say to my dog ?Blue Take Me Home!? and he would take a straight line back to my car. This time though he chased a rabbit and as the ground looked good I took a loam sample while I was waiting for Blue to come back. There was good colour in the dish and it turned out to be my best find. ...

My patch near Ryans was going an ounce to the ton and my first crushing was 4 tons and the next one was 15 tons. All the dirt was taken to the battery in Coolgardie. I would make holes with a bit and hammer and it would take me all day to make one hole for blasting one foot deep because the ground was so hard. Then a bloke brought out a petrol driven jackhammer to lend me and that was much easier. The only problem was that it was all dry boring but I made a canopy to keep the dust off me. I shifted 45 tons for an ounce to the ton but gold was only worth 15 pound an ounce then so when I was offered 500 pound for the lease I decided to quit and sell it and bought a ticket back to England. I would go back to England many times during my life whenever I sold a lease or made a good crushing. I was trying to trace my family roots and found my father, sister and elder brother but my younger brother was killed in a coalmine.

When I came back I camped near Coolgardie and prospected the Hampton Plains ground and picked up a show not far from Sam Cash?s. After crushing 75 tons for 76 ounces over a period of time I sold it for $5000. Sam Cash wrote the well-known book ?Loaming For Gold? while he was prospecting around Coolgardie. The Hampton Plains Company had been given 547 km2 of Crown Grants by Queen Victoria in the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie area, which was not available for pegging, and they had a portion of the major nickel and gold deposits inside their boundaries.

In 1963 I pegged an area at Canegrass north of Scotia for nickel. That belt of country has now been drilled and pegged for nickel. I later found another nickel area at Londonderry before Kambalda was found. I sold the Londonderry lease for $10,000 but was offered it back for $2 when the company pulled out of Australia. I immediately sold it again to another company for $11000! Close to the nickel areas were gemstones deposits especially chrysoprase and moss agate and this got me started on cutting and polishing rocks. At Canegrass I picked up a flat rock to jack up my car when I had a puncture and when it cracked open I saw that it was full of chrysoprase. I had a shop in the main street of Coolgardie then for many years selling rocks, gemstones and old bottles. ..."

In 2007, Harry became a member of the Coolgardie Gem & Mineral Club and, as of that time, was teaching members how to cut and polish rocks. He led a convoy of cars from the Perth Lapidary Clubs on a field trip out of Coolgardie and had a display of rocks at the Coolgardie Jazz & Gems Festival and at the Hall of Fame open day. Harry had a stall selling his gemstone jewelery and polished rocks every Coolgardie Day.

Obituary of Harry Boucher:

The West Australian
Edited by Torrance Mendez

"Prospector Harry, salt of the earth.

There are few lives that resonate with the sentimental notion of what it is to be an Australian. The life of Harry Boucher, the celebrated prospector who scratched, dug and cracked rock in the wilderness of the Outback for 75 years was just that.

Call him child migrant, call him Fairbridge kid and call him intinerant farm worker who stumbled into prospecting and made several small fortunes, which he blew on something that made sense of his actions; the search for his family.

For all his enterprise in raising his pickaxe against creation's strongest elements, he was overwhelmed by the security and comfort that only human beings afforded him.

In later years, so strong was his need for contact, he wanted to dump the solitary lifestyle of the prospector for the love of Perth widow Kay Nash.

But fate intervened. And so the 14-year relationship that he hoped to extend with her, having left his beloved Coolgardie to share her home in the 1990's ended when she was taken by cancer. Harry returned to the Goldfields.

He derived some comfort from remaining relatives in England bu tthat pleasure, too, was set back when May, his only surviving sibling who was to visit him in October, died last December.

Harry's heartbreak might have been assuaged had he known that he was to be named 2008 Prospector of the Year by the Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association. Again, that joy was denied when he succumbed to pneumonia on August 16 [2008].

APLA desperately tried to lift is spirits in Kalgoorlie Hospital with premature news of his victory but it is doubtful whenther by then he could comprehend.

Yet for all his misfortunes, Harry remains a legendary figure in Australian mining; the man who discovered nickel before the mid-1960s boom in Kambalda and who made several gold discoveries on his own befoer turning to gemstones. Yet he never owned a house, preferring to pay rent.

Harold Boucher was born in England on October 23, 1915, one of four children to motorbike facotry worker Reuben Boucher. In a transcript of recorded interviews he made with prospector Janet Mears, Harry said his last recollection of his mother, May, was of her being loaded into an ambulance.

When he was 12, he volunteered to come to Australia and his father and an aunt waved him off with 27 other boys from orphanages, on the SS Benalla.

At Fairbridge Farm School in Pinjarra, he learned how to bake bread, chop wood, milk cows and butcher sheep, pigs and bullocks. One one occasion, he could not get bread to rise and kept adding yeast, eventually throwing out the mixture which was eaten by a horse. The horse exploded."

Harry Boucher's funeral took place at the Kalgoorlie Crematorium at 10 am Monday, August 18, 2008. 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-03-12 15:58:13 / From original database

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Last Updated : 2009-03-12 16:21:05 /

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6439 BOUCH, Annie1896ENG,     Feb 1910 : Corsican CAN Unknown  
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5535 BOUCHER, Harold 1915ENG, STS, Wolverhampton Mar 1928 : Benalla AUS Fairbridge Homes  
3481 BOUGH, Arthur1896ENG, SSX, Steyning Mar 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
15209 BOUGHEY, Arthur William1907ENG, WAR, Aston May 1923 : Montcalm CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
17404 BOUGHS, George 1895 Aug 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
4579 BOUGHTFLOWER, Albert1908ENG,     Mar 1921 : Scandinavian CAN Barnardos  
23653 BOUGHTON, Arthur1909ENG,     Oct 1925 : Benalla AUS Barnardos  
6229 BOUGHTON, Violetta1880ENG, LIN, Stamford May 1892 : Mongolian CAN Maria Rye  
14731 BOULANGE, William1872ENG,     Jul 1885 : Sarmatian CAN Cardinal Manning (now Nugent Care)  
20768 BOULDING, Frederick William1890 Apr 1905 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
16337 BOULGER, Alice Eliza1870ENG, LND, West London Jun 1877 : Sardinian CAN Maria Rye  
16341 BOULGER, Harriet Emily1866ENG, LND, London Oct 1878 : Polynesian CAN Maria Rye  
10197 BOULT, Ernest A1894ENG,    , Greenwich Mar 1910 : Canada CAN National Childrens Home  
17403 BOULTER, Archie1896ENG,     Aug 1905 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
6440 BOULTER, George1896ENG,     Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
18186 BOULTER, John 1875ENG,     Sep 1888 : Circassian CAN Waifs & Strays  
24980 BOULTON, Thomas1899 Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
11006 BOUNDEY, Reginald Emmanuel1910ENG,    , Southampton Sep 1922 : Minnedosa CAN Barnardos  
11007 BOUNDEY, Stephen James1912ENG,    , Southampton Sep 1922 : Minnedosa CAN Barnardos  
23535 BOUNDS, Walter1880ENG, HAM, Gosport Apr 1895 : Vancouver CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
9935 BOURDICE, Leopold1890ENG,     Oct 1905 : Tunisian CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
15946 BOURK, Arthur1870ENG,     - Unknown - CAN Unknown  
8788 BOURLETT, Ada1895ENG, MDX, Bethnal Green Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
8790 BOURLETT, Frederick1898ENG, MDX, Bethnal Green Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
6595 BOURNE, Albert1911WAL,    , Merthyr Tydfil Jul 1927 : Minnedosa CAN Barnardos  
13104 BOURNE, Cecil1884ENG,    , St Pancras Apr 1895 : Vancouver CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
13283 BOURNE, Edwin1893ENG,     Sep 1904 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
22600 BOURNE, Hannah1879ENG,     Oct 1892 : Sardinian CAN Barnardos  
13105 BOURNE, Harold1886ENG,    , St Pancras Apr 1895 : Vancouver CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
27212 BOURNE, Marjorie1923ENG, LIN, Caistor Nov 1935 : Balranald AUS Fairbridge Homes  
13106 BOURNE, Richard1882ENG,    , St Pancras Apr 1895 : Vancouver CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
5051 BOURNE, William1916ENG, GLS, Bristol Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond CAN Barnardos  
6596 BOURNE, William1913WAL,    , Aberdare Jul 1927 : Minnedosa CAN Barnardos  
25277 BOUSFIELD, George Reginald1914ENG, LAN, Liverpool Feb 1924 : Euripides AUS Fairbridge Homes  
9292 BOUSFIELD, Georgina1894ENG,     Oct 1905 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
17457 BOUSFIELD, Samuel1897ENG,     Aug 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
14116 BOVINGDON, Lord George1885ENG,    , Edmonton Jul 1899 : Lake Huron CAN Barnardos  
11712 BOWCHER, Helen1888ENG,     May 1902 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
17402 BOWD, Herbert 1898ENG,     May 1910 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
13067 BOWDEN, Eleanor1885ENG,     Jun 1900 : Cambroman CAN Barnardos  
26175 BOWDEN, Henry John1891ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
6648 BOWDEN, Leslie1913ENG,    , Torquay Mar 1927 : Montrose CAN Barnardos  
8029 BOWDEN, Louisa1852ENG,     Jun 1869 : Austrian CAN Maria Rye  
6937 BOWDEN, M. Daisy1876ENG,     Jun 1878 : Sarmatian CAN Middlemore  
11946 BOWDEN, Reginald1908ENG, DEV Mar 1920 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
19896 BOWDEN, Robert1886ENG,     Jun 1897 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
17217 BOWDEN, Stephen1890ENG,     Apr 1899 : Scotsman CAN Barnardos  
22715 BOWDEN, Sydney1895ENG,     May 1903 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
10465 BOWDEN, William Frederick1908ENG, LDN, London Oct 1920 : Scandinavian CAN Barnardos  
8220 BOWDITCH, Alfred1917ENG,    , Alverstoke Sep 1928 : Duchess of Bedford CAN Barnardos  
9178 BOWDITCH, Harry1889ENG,     May 1897 : Scotsman CAN Childrens Aid Society  
6904 BOWDON, George1881ENG,     Mar 1891 : Sarnia CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
8270 BOWE, Robert1913ENG,    , Middlesbrough Apr 1928 : Montclare CAN Barnardos  
6773 BOWEN, Arthur Vernon1898ENG,    , Worcester Jul 1907 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
12699 BOWEN, Charles1878WAL, DEN, Wrexham Mar 1892 : Carthaginian CAN Barnardos  
6774 BOWEN, Elizabeth1901ENG,     Mar 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
17234 BOWEN, Harry James 1874ENG,     Jun 1885 : Sarmatian CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
17236 BOWEN, Henry1874ENG,     May 1885 : Sarmatian CAN Barnardos  
17276 BOWEN, Henry1874ENG,     Jun 1885 : Sarmatian CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
6214 BOWEN, Mary 1881ENG,     May 1892 : Mongolian CAN Maria Rye  
17219 BOWEN, William1893ENG,     Mar 1901 : Dominion CAN Louisa Birt  
13745 BOWER, Henry Edward1895ENG,     Apr 1905 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
16840 BOWER, Peter ENG,     Oct 1913 : Corinthian CAN Barnardos  
16841 BOWER, Robert ENG,     Oct 1913 : Corinthian CAN Barnardos  
8791 BOWEREN, Sidney 1898ENG,    , Norwich Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
18187 BOWERING, Edgar 1874ENG,     Sep 1888 : Circassian CAN Waifs & Strays  
11018 BOWERMAN, Mary E1861ENG,     Jul 1875 : Prussian CAN MacPherson Homes  
17401 BOWERS, Dorothy1896ENG,     Aug 1909 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
13496 BOWERS, Elizabeth1878ENG,     Apr 1891 : Parisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
20449 BOWERS, Ethel1895 May 1908 : Corsican CAN Louisa Birt  
20593 BOWERS, Fred1896 Apr 1905 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
10866 BOWERS, Naomi1896ENG,    , Poplar Oct 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
18553 BOWERS, Sarah Ann1894ENG, LAN, Manchester May 1907 : Tunisian CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
18523 BOWERS, Thomas1892ENG, LAN, Manchester Apr 1906 : Victorian CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
25013 BOWERS, William1899 Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
11169 BOWES, George1891ENG,     Jul 1901 : Numidian CAN Barnardos  
20754 BOWES, William John1894 Apr 1905 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
25298 BOWEY, Joseph Austin1930ENG,     Mar 1939 : Strathnaver AUS Christian Brothers  
10949 BOWHEY, Eliza1864ENG,     May 1873 : Sarmatian CAN Maria Rye  
10950 BOWHEY, Mary A1862ENG,     May 1873 : Sarmatian CAN Maria Rye  
9263 BOWLER, John 1895ENG,     Jun 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
6338 BOWLER, Timothy1887ENG,    , Westminster Jul 1899 : Lake Huron CAN Barnardos  
2840 BOWLES, Arthur1874ENG, NFK, Runhall Jun 1889 : Vancouver CAN Church of England  
14810 BOWLES, Charles1871ENG,     Aug 1884 : Sarmatian CAN Board of Guardians (Various)  
22908 BOWLES, Dorothy1900ENG,     Jul 1914 : Corinthian CAN Barnardos  
11372 BOWLES, Eva1885ENG,     Jul 1898 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
27102 BOWLES, Gordon Roy1919ENG, LND, Chelsea Jul 1930 : Balranald AUS Fairbridge Homes  
26221 BOWLES, H1892ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
26222 BOWLES, J1895ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
20462 BOWLES, James1897 May 1908 : Corsican CAN Louisa Birt  
7862 BOWLES, John George1910ENG,    , Reigate Jul 1923 : Minnedosa CAN Barnardos  
15377 BOWLES, Joseph1879ENG,     Jun 1890 : Circassian CAN Barnardos  
25278 BOWLES, Leonard Frank1913ENG, KEN, Maidstone Feb 1924 : Euripides AUS Fairbridge Homes  
11371 BOWLES, Rose1888ENG,     Jul 1898 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
19575 BOWLINCK, John1882ENG,     May 1895 : Parisian CAN Annie Macpherson Homes  
9219 BOWLING, Albert1891ENG,     May 1900 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
5314 BOWLING, Harold1915ENG,    , Chorley Aug 1930 : Duchess of York CAN British Immigration and Colonisation Association  
11221 BOWLING, Martha1889ENG,     May 1900 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
11220 BOWLING, Robert1893ENG,     May 1900 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
22601 BOWLOCK, J H1894ENG,     Aug 1905 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
15577 BOWMAN, Albert Edward1906ENG,     Sep 1921 : Minnedosa CAN Barnardos  
8221 BOWMAN, Arthur1914ENG, YKS, Rotherham Sep 1928 : Antonia CAN National Childrens Home  
5770 BOWMAN, Bridget1901ENG,     Mar 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
8698 BOWMAN, David1912SCT,     Mar 1930 : Nova Scotia CAN Salvation Army  
25279 BOWMAN, John1913 Feb 1924 : Euripides AUS Fairbridge Homes  
9293 BOWMAN, Mary1900ENG,     Aug 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
5769 BOWMAN, Mary Ann1898ENG,     Mar 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
14692 BOWPITT, Edith Mary1904ENG,    , Kingston Mar 1920 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
22849 BOWRAY, Charlotte1873ENG,     Apr 1885 : Sarmatian CAN Maria Rye  
5549 BOWRY, William Arthur1914SCT, MLN, Edinburgh Oct 1928 : Beltana AUS Fairbridge Homes  
19663 BOWSELL, George1885ENG,     Jun 1897 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
15361 BOWSHER, Charles1861ENG,     1872 : - Unknown - CAN Maria Rye  
16532 BOX, Edgar Gerard1901ENG, STS, Wolverhampton May 1913 : Corsican CAN Father Hudsons Homes  
26285 BOXLEY, Daphne Norma Mercedes1922ENG, HRT, Ware Aug 1934 : Oronsay AUS Fairbridge Homes  
7444 BOYALL, Thomas 1893ENG,     Mar 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
2870 BOYCE, Albert1898ENG, GLS, Bristol May 1911 : Corsican CAN Louisa Birt  
2712 BOYCE, Charles James1875ENG, MDX, Shoreditch, London Mar 1889 : Vancouver CAN Unknown  
17235 BOYCE, Elizabeth1893ENG,     May 1901 : Numidian CAN MacPherson Homes  
22862 BOYCE, George1891ENG,     May 1906 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
8738 BOYCE, John A.1914ENG,    , Sebastopol Apr 1928 : Andania CAN Waifs & Strays  
17407 BOYCE, Nellie1895ENG,     Jun 1908 : Victorian CAN Waifs & Strays  
14352 BOYCE, Rose1885ENG,     1898 : - Unknown - CAN Girls Protective Association  
27543 BOYCE, William1873SCT, LKS, Glasgow 1881 : Manitoban CAN Marchmont Homes   
19608 BOYD, Alfred1886ENG,     Jun 1897 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
9805 BOYD, Florinda1897ENG,     Mar 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
16197 BOYD, James1896ENG,     May 1909 : Corsican CAN Barnardos  
10804 BOYD, Louisa1866ENG,     Sep 1880 : Moravian CAN Maria Rye  
16196 BOYD, Samuel1894ENG,     May 1909 : Corsican CAN Barnardos  
6725 BOYD, William1911IRL,    , Colerain Mar 1927 : Montrose CAN National Childrens Home  
5241 BOYDE, Albert1915ENG, LDN, London Mar 1930 : Scythia CAN Salvation Army  
9139 BOYDELL, Matilda1898ENG, LAN, Leigh Oct 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
13689 BOYLAN, James 1875ENG,     May 1887 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
22791 BOYLAND, Bernard1884ENG,     Sep 1895 : Parisian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
7208 BOYLAND, Daisy Grace1897ENG,    , Marylebone Oct 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
13876 BOYLE, Catherine1877ENG,     Sep 1887 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
15405 BOYLE, James1881ENG,     Sep 1894 : Numidian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
20745 BOYLE, John1892ENG,     Jun 1908 : Tunisian CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
9264 BOYLE, Joseph1899ENG,     Oct 1909 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
4241 BOYLE, Louisa1876ENG, LAN, Liverpool - Unknown - CAN Unknown  
7799 BOYLE, Margaret1858ENG,     Jul 1870 : Prussian CAN Maria Rye  
13875 BOYLE, Mary 1876ENG,     Sep 1887 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
11501 BOYLE, Patrick1910ENG,     May 1923 : Montcalm CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
25644 BOYLE, Peter1896ENG, LAN, Wigan May 1909 : Corsican CAN Catholic Emigration Society  
15900 BOYLE, Thomas 1874IRL,     Sep 1884 : Sarmatian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
11471 BOYLE, William 1909ENG,     May 1923 : Montcalm CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
25642 BOYLE, William1894ENG,     May 1909 : Corsican CAN Catholic Emigration Society JMann  
22854 BOYLES, W.J.1893ENG,     May 1905 : Southwark CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
15848 BOYNS, John Richard1904ENG, CON, Penzance Apr 1922 : Albania CAN Sailing Alone  
10506 BOYNTON, Kenneth1910ENG, KEN, Dartford May 1922 : Montcalm CAN Catholic Childrens Emigration Service of London  
13821 BOZMAN, George Henry1899ENG, LAN, Liverpool Oct 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
8271 BRABBINS, Charles 1910ENG, LAN, Liverpool Apr 1928 : Montclare CAN Barnardos  
10338 BRABNER, Cecilia1877SCT,    , Dundee Jun 1884 : Buenos Ayrean CAN Quarriers  
6849 BRACE, Milly1891ENG,     May 1903 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
23539 BRACE, William Charles1916ENG, BKM, Aylsbury Mar 1928 : Benalla AUS Fairbridge Homes  
10229 BRACEWELL, Thomas 1886ENG, LAN, Liverpool Jun 1893 : Sardinian CAN Salford Catholic Protection and Rescue Society  
3274 BRACEY, Arthur T.1883ENG,    , Kings Norton Apr 1900 : Cambroman CAN Barnardos  
7752 BRACEY, Elizabeth1859ENG,     Jul 1870 : Prussian CAN Maria Rye  
10822 BRACKENBURY, Edward 1900ENG,    , Fulham Apr 1914 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
23478 BRACKNELL, Henry George1895ENG, HAM, Odiham Mar 1908 : Dominion CAN National Childrens Home  
20834 BRADBROOK, William ENG,     Aug 1892 : Sardinian CAN Rev. William J. Pady  
6364 BRADBURN, Heward1901ENG,     Oct 1910 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
6362 BRADBURN, Reginald1898ENG,     Oct 1910 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
25514 BRADBURN, Thomas1898ENG,     May 1909 : Corsican CAN Barnardos  
22133 BRADBURN, Walter C1893ENG,     May 1909 : Corsican CAN Barnardos  
23999 BRADBURY, Alex1907ENG,     Jun 1916 : Scandinavian CAN Middlemore  
22670 BRADBURY, Arthur1890ENG,     May 1905 : Southwark CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
3931 BRADBURY, Charles 1883ENG,     Jul 1895 : Sardinian CAN Barnardos  
22850 BRADBURY, Claude1899ENG,     Apr 1915 : Hesperian CAN Dakeyne Boys Farm  
22080 BRADBURY, Ernest1881ENG,     Apr 1897 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
7704 BRADBURY, Herbert1893ENG,     May 1908 : Tunisian CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
24000 BRADBURY, James1903ENG,     Jun 1916 : Scandinavian CAN Middlemore  
8169 BRADBURY, Joseph William1913ENG,    , Macclesfield May 1930 : Aurania CAN Church of England  
22941 BRADBURY, Percy1891ENG,     May 1903 : Kensington CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
24001 BRADBURY, William1905ENG,     Jun 1916 : Scandinavian CAN Middlemore  
7703 BRADBURY, Winifred1896ENG,    , North Manchester May 1906 : Tunisian CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
12447 BRADFIELD, George1892ENG,     Jul 1903 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
12658 BRADFORD, Alexandra1902ENG,    , Uxbridge Mar 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
25021 BRADFORD, Alfred1899 Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
10356 BRADFORD, Hugh1881SCT,     Apr 1897 : Siberian CAN Quarriers  
21922 BRADFORD, James1893ENG,     Oct 1903 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
26286 BRADFORD, Philip John1923ENG, CAM, Cambridge Aug 1934 : Oronsay AUS Fairbridge Homes  
9294 BRADFORD, S1894ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
18313 BRADFORD, William John Woodman1904ENG, SRY, Addiscombe May 1920 : Melita CAN Waifs & Strays  
20775 BRADING, Charles1896 Apr 1905 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
18367 BRADLEER, Alfred1858ENG,     Jun 1869 : Nestorian CAN Clerkenwell Emigration Society  
18369 BRADLEER, Edward1848ENG,     Jun 1869 : Nestorian CAN Clerkenwell Emigration Society  
23897 BRADLEY, Ada1911ENG,     May 1921 : Minnedosa CAN Middlemore Colleen Johnny Gillis  
6524 BRADLEY, Arthur 1899ENG, LDN, London Aug 1911 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes  
24079 BRADLEY, Arthur1906ENG,     Jun 1915 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
7504 BRADLEY, Charles1858ENG,     Nov 1869 : Hibernian CAN Maria Rye  
7734 BRADLEY, Charles1857ENG,     Jul 1870 : Prussian CAN Maria Rye  
19977 BRADLEY, Christopher James1903ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1915 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
15101 BRADLEY, Dennis1873ENG, YKS, Hunslet Sep 1884 : Circassian CAN Colonization Fund, London  
17375 BRADLEY, Elizabeth ENG,     Jun 1901 : Tunisian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
17376 BRADLEY, Ellen ENG,     Jun 1901 : Tunisian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
26136 BRADLEY, G1892ENG,     Mar 1903 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
11423 BRADLEY, James1910ENG,    , Burslem Aug 1924 : Montcalm CAN Unknown Catholic Group  
12967 BRADLEY, James1883ENG,     Apr 1896 : Scotsman CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
19723 BRADLEY, John1876ENG,     May 1893 : Sardinian CAN Catholic Emigration Society  
21068 BRADLEY, John1888ENG,     Apr 1898 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
24080 BRADLEY, John H1903ENG,     Jun 1915 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
23898 BRADLEY, Lily1913ENG,     May 1921 : Minnedosa CAN Middlemore Colleen Johnny Gillis  
20078 BRADLEY, Rd1871ENG,     Jun 1886 : Lake Superior CAN Barnardos  
9140 BRADLEY, Robert Henry 1899ENG,     Oct 1905 : Canada CAN Barnardos  
17374 BRADLEY, Robina ENG,     Jun 1901 : Tunisian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
9069 BRADLEY, Sidney 1914ENG,    , St Helens Jul 1928 : Duchess of Atholl CAN Barnardos  
3995 BRADLEY, William John1911ENG, MDX, Leytonstone, Leyton, London Sep 1922 : Minnedosa CAN Barnardos  
2721 BRADSHAW, Ada1889ENG, MDX, Greenwich, London Aug 1901 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
24466 BRADSHAW, Charles1856 May 1870 : Moravian CAN Ragged Schools, London  
25841 BRADSHAW, Janet1881 Jun 1891 : Norwegian CAN Quarriers  
27038 BRADSHAW, John Albert1915ENG, LAN, Warrington Oct 1928 : Beltana AUS Fairbridge Homes  
8613 BRADSHAW, John William1892ENG, LDN, London Aug 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
21928 BRADSHAW, Thomas1877ENG,     May 1885 : Parisian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
22513 BRADSHAW, Thomas1895ENG, WAR, Birmingham Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
25815 BRADSHAW, Victoria1878 Jun 1891 : Norwegian CAN Quarriers  
21929 BRADSHAW, William1879ENG,     May 1885 : Parisian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
22909 BRADSHAWE, Daisy1892ENG,     May 1903 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
10466 BRADY, Arthur1908ENG,    , Hexham Jul 1923 : Montcalm CAN Catholic Emigration Society  
18794 BRADY, Charles1889ENG,     Sep 1899 : Arawa CAN Barnardos  
13642 BRADY, Edward1878ENG,     May 1887 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
13643 BRADY, John1874ENG,     Sep 1887 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
22000 BRADY, Matthew ENG,     Apr 1925 : Athenia CAN Boy Hostel, Montreal  
18683 BRADY, Thomas J.1895ENG,     Sep 1911 : Lake Manitoba CAN Unknown Catholic Group  
11717 BRAGDER, Henry1890ENG,     May 1902 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
17406 BRAGG, Walter1895ENG,     Jun 1902 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
22602 BRAGGINGTON, Elsie1907ENG,     Jun 1920 : Scotian CAN Barnardos  
13857 BRAHAM, Polly1896ENG,    , Shoreditch May 1912 : Corsican CAN Waifs & Strays  
26734 BRAHAM, William1899 Oct 1910 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
12577 BRAIDWOOD, Janet1902ENG,    , Paisley Jun 1914 : Hesperian CAN Quarriers  
12576 BRAIDWOOD, Jne 1900SCT, RFW, Paisley Jun 1914 : Hesperian CAN Quarriers  
12810 BRAILEY, Eliza1892ENG,     Oct 1902 : Colonian CAN Barnardos  
26331 BRAILSFORD, Phyllis1891ENG,     May 1902 : Dominion CAN Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)  
25560 BRAIN, Ivy1900ENG,     May 1909 : Corsican CAN Barnardos  
10850 BRAINE, Richard1872ENG,     Mar 1887 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
9270 BRAITHWAITE, Alice1895ENG,     Jun 1905 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
10849 BRAKE, Alfred1857ENG, LDN, London Jun 1872 : France CAN Shaftesbury/Bisley Farm School  
10848 BRAKE, Alfred S1874ENG,    , Isle of Wight Mar 1887 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
20535 BRAKE, Harry O1877 Mar 1887 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
24145 BRAKE, J.1855ENG,     May 1870 : Scandinavian CAN Boy's Home, Great Queen Street, London  
24577 BRALEY, William H.1896 Jun 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
22098 BRAMALL, Ernest1909ENG,     Jun 1920 : Scotian CAN Barnardos  
4583 BRAMBLE, Lilian1901ENG,     Mar 1914 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
4582 BRAMBLE, Sophia1903ENG,     Mar 1914 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
7619 BRAMHALL, Elizabeth1860ENG,     Nov 1870 : Peruvian CAN Maria Rye  
7677 BRAMHALL, Sarah1858ENG,     Nov 1870 : Peruvian CAN Maria Rye  
3254 BRAMLEY, Henry1889ENG,     Oct 1900 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
12008 BRAMLEY, Sarah Ann1895ENG, NTT, Nottingham Jun 1910 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
10984 BRAMPTON, Alice1889ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jul 1905 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
22510 BRAMWELL, Charles1898ENG,     Mar 1907 : Dominion USA Barnardos  
27544 BRAMWELL, Robert1869SCT, LKS, Glasgow 1881 : Manitoban CAN Marchmont Homes   
10500 BRAMWELL, William David1906ENG,     Oct 1920 : Scandinavian CAN Barnardos  
22509 BRAMWELL, William Francis1896ENG,    , Summerfield Mar 1907 : Dominion USA Barnardos  
18265 BRAMZELL, John Clay1910ENG,     Mar 1920 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
17417 BROCKETT, William ENG,     May 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
6230 CHAPLIN, Zorah Annie1883ENG, GLS, Cheltenham May 1892 : Mongolian CAN Maria Rye jlnorthrup  
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