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Name :: : Beatrice M. CARTWRIGHT (1897 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1897 (approx.)
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Surrey, Wimbledon

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 5 Aug 1910
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Tunisian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesParents: George Frederick Cartwright and Mary Elizabeth Williams, married 1885, Kingston, Surrey, England.

A death registration was found for Mary Elizabeth Cartwright: Year of Registration: 1905; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; Age at Death: 36; District: Kingston; County: Middlesex, Surrey; Volume: 2a; Page: 213.

[EDITORS NOTE: No death certificate found for George Frederick Cartwright. However a Violet M. Stevens and George F. Cartwright were married in Guildford, Surrey, England during March quarter 1934; and the death of a George F. Cartwright, 63, was registered in the March quarter, 1938 in Lambeth, Surrey, England.]

In 1910, Beatrice Cartright, 13, arrived at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in a group of 85 Barnardo girls en route to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

From Leader-Post (Saskatchewan), March 31, 2010/P. Roth:

"REGINA ? It might be looked upon as a sad moment in history when thousands of penniless children were sent from the U.K. to Canada to work as farm labourers or domestic servants.

But Holly Schick isn't ashamed to say she's one of an estimated four million Canadians who are descendants of the home children. She isn't proud of it either.

"It's kind of a sad piece in history. They were very much looked down upon by people here," said Schick, a member of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, who's invested countless hours towards tracing her grandmother's roots and the history of home children in Canada.

"When you think about it, they were a major force in who we are now."

The federal government has designated 2010 as the year of the British home child.

From 1869 to the late 1940s, religious and philanthropic organizations brought around 100,000 children between the ages of nine and 14 to Canada from the U.K. to make new lives for themselves, rather than live in the slums.

Many of them were labelled as orphans, even though two-thirds had parents, who were simply too poor to care for them.

They were sent to live with Canadian families, often as farm labourers or domestic servants under the U.K.'s Child Migration Scheme, and became known as home children.

Some became victims of abuse, but many of them did well for themselves, including Schick's grandmother Beatrice Cartwright, who has since passed away.

With the passing of her mother and re-location of her siblings, Cartwright's father was too poor to take care of her at their Wimbledon home.

So she was sent to one of Barnardo's Homes in England, where she lived for two years prior to arriving in Ontario at the age of 13 to live with a family near Uxbridge and help look after their children.

She was among approximately 70,000 home children who arrived in Ontario, with another 12,000 sent to Quebec.

A few home children eventually made their way to farms in Saskatchewan, but the majority remained in Ontario.

According to Schick, Cartwright had a good life and was treated like a member of the family.

She eventually married and moved to Saskatchewan to farm with her husband near Lemberg, where she raised five children.

As a result of the move to Canada, Cartwright lost all connection with her family in England. Her past was virtually erased, which Schick said left deep wounds for many of the home children.

"It looked like a real good idea to everybody, but it was a major shock to the system," said Schick, who travelled to England to tour the former residence of her grandmother at Barnardo Homes.

"She had a good life here, but lost a lot too. It must have been sad and a challenge. She didn't talk a lot about it ? most of them didn't."

Last month, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized on his country's behalf for shipping out 150,000 home children to lives of servitude in Commonwealth countries. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has also done the same.

Schick said the apology was appreciated.

"I think, for the most part, the organizations that collected those children and sent them to Canada had the best interests of the children at heart. But looking back, it's one of those things you don't realize the end results of it and the potential problems until it's too late," she said."

? Copyright (c) The Regina Leader-Post

ContributorsCreated : 2010-06-20 12:07:57 / From original database

Last Updated : 2010-06-20 13:50:19 /

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3033	ABBOTT, Frederick	1893	ENG, SRY, Kingston Upon Thames	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
3106	ABSALOM, Richard	1874	ENG, SRY, Cobham	Apr 1890 : Sardinian	CAN	Unknown
7354	ADDISON, Annie Louise	1879	ENG, SRY, Newington	Oct 1892 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
7355	ADDISON, Emily Josephine	1880	ENG, SRY, Newington	Oct 1892 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
19366	AKEHURST, Wilfred John Kelly	1896	ENG, SRY, Chertsey	Sep 1912 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
16539	ALDRED, Albert	1904	ENG, SRY, Balham	Apr 1912 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
26426	ALLEN, Walter Bevis	1901	ENG, SRY, Kingston	Jul 1913 : Belgic	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
13065	ANDERSON, Samuel	1874	ENG, SRY, Croydon	Jul 1887 : Sardinian	CAN	Board of Guardians (Various)
9798	ANDREWS, Alice Doris	1905	ENG, SRY, Camberwell	Mar 1920 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
27648	ANDREWS, William	1902	ENG, SRY, Wandsworth	Jul 1914 : Victorian	CAN	MacPherson's
13311	ANSELL, George Edward Cecil		ENG, SRY, Lambeth	Aug 1927 : Alaunia	CAN	Church Army
25271	ARTHUR, Frederick	1913	ENG, SRY, Kingston	Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
10900	ASHLEY, Bernard Cecil	1896	ENG, SRY, Richmond	Jul 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
4566	ATKINS, Ena Mary	1906	ENG, SRY, Croydon	Sep 1915 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3568	ATTWELL, Frederick William	1909	ENG, SRY, Old Windsor	Sep 1920 : Metagama	CAN	MacPherson Homes
25141	ATTWELL, Richard	1916	ENG, SRY	May 1928 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
3932	BACKHURST, Frank	1895	ENG, SRY, Kingston	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
9835	BAGUST, Albert Edward	1897	ENG, SRY, Peckham	Mar 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3968	BAKER, Edith Jemima	1887	ENG, SRY, Camberwell	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
17019	BALDWIN, William Jeffery	1876	ENG, SRY	Jun 1885 : Sarmatian	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
11941	BANKS, Bernard	1910	ENG, SRY, Bermondsey	Jun 1924 : Athenia	CAN	Salvation Army
17167	BARNARD, Reginald	1885	ENG, SRY, Lambeth	May 1899 : Gallia	CAN	Young Colonists Aid
17255	BARNICOAT, Ethel	1898	ENG, SRY, Battersea	May 1911 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
17670	BARNICOAT, Harold Frederick	1901	ENG, SRY, Battersea	May 1911 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
8267	BARRETT, Frank	1915	ENG, SRY, Wandsworth	Apr 1928 : Montclare	CAN	Barnardos
17169	BARTH, Ethel Florence	1889	ENG, SRY, Brixton	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3855	BARTH, Evelyn Winifred	1887	ENG, SRY, Brixton	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
4238	BEAGLE, George William	1868	ENG, SRY, Camberwell	Apr 1885 : Circassian	CAN	Barnardos
9249	BEARE, Joseph George	1893	ENG, SRY, Wandsworth	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	Barnardos
5682	BEATON, George Edward	1898	ENG, SRY, Norwood	Mar 1912 : Dominion	CAN	Unknown
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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