Thomas, Elsie May and Blanche R

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Date:November 1908 - January 1909 (c.)

Description:Thomas, Elsie May, and Blanche R before and after they were "received into the homes" Middlemore Homes was called an “Emigration Home” because it took poor children from the slums of industrial Birmingham and sent them to the rural “wilds” of Canada and later Australia. Many of these children were not orphans but had been removed from their families due to poverty, and sometimes because of neglect or cruelty

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Source: Balsall Heath Local History Society , Jim Fitzpatrick , Graham Partlett , Elizabeth McKeon , Diane Stead , Keith Whitehouse

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