Sussex Burials
For those with roots in Sussex, a substantial new collection of 16,014 burial records from St Mary, Eastbourne is now available. Sourced from the Family History Society for Eastbourne & District, they cover the 1800s and 1900s,
Tabulated search results show the first and last names and date of birth. For the year of burial you need to click through to view the full transcription. The Findmypast whole Sussex Burials collection now totals 1,211,532 records.
The Dorset Poor
This week’s update includes a small addition of just 119 records, the Dorset Adult Paupers Workhouse Register, 1860. The registers can reveal an individual’s name, date of admission, the institution they were in, and even personal details like their physical condition (e.g., “blind”).
In a rural county like Dorset, the workhouses in unions such as Dorchester, Blandford, and Bridport were often filled with agricultural labourers and their families, especially during winter or times of illness when work was impossible to find.
Over 250,000 New Newspaper Pages
This week, The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer received new pages covering much of the 1980s and 1990s. Five brand-new titles have also been added:
The Highlander (1877)
Charity Record (1881-1921)
Ironworkers’ Journal (Darlington) (1884-1885)
Seren (Bala, Wales) (1891-1892)
Longford Leader (1916-1917)
Anyone interested in British Home Children should read the articles in the Charity Record about immigration to Canada. Here’s the text of an article from 24 March 1894 under the heading Dr. Barnardo’s Homes and Emigrants.
* Night and Day” for March is, as usual, filled with interesting
particulars concerning Dr. Barnardo’s great work. From some per- |
sonal notes it looks as if the Homes and the Church of England
Waifs and Strays Society are not as well disposed towards each other
as they should be. A gentleman of position in Sunderland has
written to Dr. Barnardo that the agents of the Church Society have
been calling upon the Home’s subscribers in that town and urging
them to transfer their support to that Society, and Dr. Barnardo
adds that complaints of similar unfriendly rivalry reaches him from
various quarters. It is a thousand pities that this jealousy should
prevail, and some explanation is certainly wanted from the managers
of the Church Society. |
It will doubtless be within the recollection of our readers that
very adverse criticisms were made some months ago, based upon a
presentment by a grand jury in Manitoba, as to the emigration
work of Dr. Barnardo. The Doctor has written a long article lo deal-
ing with the question from which it seems clear that the objections
which the jury placed on record in such sweeping terms, were based
upon one solitary case of failure on the part of a Barnardd boy ” 1
For 10 years after the emigration work was started, that is up to
1884, not a single conviction was recorded against emigrants from
the Homes. Since that year the total is 52. The average percent.
age of convictions among the emigrants for 10 years is *136; the
percentage for the general population of Canada is “766. Dr.
Barnardo says, in conclusion .—” Reviewing calmly and dispassion-
ately the successes and failupes of the 6,128 young people sent out
from these Institutions to Canada and judging the same by the
criterion of the criminal statistics of the general population of
Canada published under official authority, it would appear that,
taken as a whole, the class of youths brought to the Barnardo
Home from the old country are much more free from crime, vice,
general profligacy, or vagrancy than is the population of the,
Dominion generally, or any particular section of it considered
separately.”