PMarione
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 Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:03 pm Post subject: British Migrant Program in the 17th century |
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From the NYTimes :
| Quote: | Others among the boys and girls known in Australia as the “lost innocents” were as young as 3, children abandoned by single mothers or impoverished families, placed into institutional care in Britain, then transported across the world, often without parental consent, with certificates bearing wrong names and birth dates, and falsely noting that they had no living parents or siblings.
Mr. Humphreys arrived in Fremantle on Sept. 22, 1947, one of 100 boys and 40 girls who were part of the first wave of child migrants to leave Britain for Australia after World War II, resuming a program that was started in the 1920s but that had origins in the early 17th century, when child migrants were shipped across the Atlantic to the Virginia colony. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/world/23children.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
I never have read anything on the subject.
Any reference ?
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