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

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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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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3004	AARON, Alfred Robert	1899	ENG, LAN, West Derby, Liverpool	Mar 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3003	AARON, John Richard	1895	ENG, LAN, West Derby, Liverpool	Mar 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3007	ABBEY, Bertha	1890	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Jul 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3006	ABBEY, John	1887	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Oct 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3161	ABBEY, Thomas	1892	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Oct 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3020	ABBOT, Alice	1877	ENG, MDX, Islington	Oct 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3047	ABBOT, William	1878	ENG,	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
3019	ABBOTT, Alfred	1869	ENG,	Aug 1887 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
23669	ABBOTT, Alice	1877	ENG,	Oct 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3022	ABBOTT, Bertie	1894	ENG, SFK, Ipswich	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Barnardos	sharonmx5 , patty_in_ms
3025	ABBOTT, David Henry	1891	ENG, ESS, Grays	Mar 1901 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3055	ABBOTT, Douglas Groves	1910	ENG, HAM, Hartley Wintney	Apr 1924 : Montclare	CAN	Barnardos
3858	ABBOTT, Emily Jane	1886	ENG, YKS, Guisborough	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
8354	ABBOTT, Frederick Albert Prosper	1885	ENG, LND, Homerton	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
3036	ABBOTT, George	1894	ENG, MDX, London	Jul 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3038	ABBOTT, Herman Henry	1882	ENG, MDX, Hoxton, London	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
10624	ABBOTT, John	1913	ENG,	Apr 1929 : Duchess of York	CAN	Barnardos
3045	ABBOTT, Leslie	1883	ENG,	Mar 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3060	ABBOTT, Lilian	1903	ENG,	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3026	ABBOTT, Mary	1888	ENG, ESS, Maldon	Oct 1902 : Colonian	CAN	Barnardos
3049	ABBOTT, Penelope	1901	ENG, KEN, Sidcup	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
5046	ABBS, Bertie Cecil John	1914	ENG, LND, St. Pancras	Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Barnardos
3061	ABDALE, John George	1873	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Mar 1891 : Norwegian	CAN	Barnardos
3063	ABEL, Albert Edward G.	1901	ENG, ESS, West Ham	Aug 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3066	ABEL, Charles	1891	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3065	ABEL, Florence	1902	ENG, ESS, West Ham	Aug 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3067	ABEL, Frederick	1889	ENG,	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3068	ABEL, George	1887	ENG,	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3069	ABEL, George	1897	ENG,	Mar 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3071	ABEL, John	1886	ENG,	Jun 1897 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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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