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Harold Pearson born 7/1/1899 and Hilda pearson born 3/4/1900,their parents were Arthur Pearson and Emily Rylance,
addresses they were born at Wells Bottom Soyland,and Turner Bottom Rishworth,they went on to have another daughter Gladys who was my mother-in-law,she was in1905,she was adopted,after her mother died,but no one knows what happened to Harold and Hilda,rumour says they were sent to USA or Canada,can you help or advise please
Regards Patricia
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Are there lists of these children who were sent away
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Hi Patricia -- there are some databases, but they aren't complete.
Canada has one here:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/home-children/001015-100.01-e.php
but I did a search for Hilda and Harold, with no luck. It's possible they did come to Canada and are in records that haven't been included in the database.
They wouldn't likely have been sent to the US, since that was a foreign country. Canada and Australia were the main destinations for Home Children; we were not really foreign, you see. So many children were brought to Canada that it's estimated that 10% of the population has a Home Child ancestor.
I checked the Ontario marriage index up to 1924, the last available. No Hilda Pearson marriages. A few Harold Pearson marriages, but the parents don't match. It isn't possible to check for births after 1906; there's a 100-year privacy rule.
I checked passenger records at findmypast. So many Harold Pearsons travelled to Canada between 1900 and 1920 (not to mention the H Pearsons) there's no way of identifying one, really. This is a Hilda who doesn't quite match, but children's ages were not always known or recorded accurately in the circumstances:
PEARSON Hilda 9 F 1912 Liverpool Canada Quebec
The Canadian census is only available up to 1911. If the children came here and were quite young at the time, before 1911, they could have been adopted and their surname changed. Older children were more often taken into households as workers rather than family members, especially boys who worked on farms.
The 1911 census has half a dozen Harolds born Jan 1899 (assuming his correct birthdate was known) in England. One is shown as the adopted son of Clara and Edward Wright, but his name is given as Harold Sales.
The Canadian censuses are for the most part barely legible to start with, and badly scanned. Harold Sales's name is clear. This one isn't clear, but does look as if this is what it says:
Name: Hilda Headen
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Age: 12
Birth Date: Apr 1899
Birthplace: England
Family Number: 120
Relation to Head of House: Head
Immigration Year: 1909
Tribal: English
Province: Ontario
District: Northumberland East
District Number: 101
Sub-District: Brighton
Sub-District Number: 30
Place of Habitation: Brighton
Census Year: 1911
Page: 8
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Hilda Headen 12
She is not a head of household. She is obviously attached to the preceding household, but her status in the household is apparently a ditto to the preceding person, and that one is impossible to decipher. If you PM me an email address, I can send you a copy of the image.
I considered but discarded this marriage:
Name: Harry James Pearson
Birth Place: England
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900
Father Name: Arthur Pearson
Mother Name: Martha Scaldwell
Spouse Name: Eleanor Mirehouse
Spouse's Age: 21
Spouse Estimated Birth Year: abt 1902
Spouse Birth Place: England
Spouse Father Name: Jouathan Mirehouse
Spouse Mother Name: Sarah Ann Gill
Marriage Date: 4 Sep 1923
Marriage Place: Middlesex
Marriage County: Middlesex
Registration district: Middlesex
Family History Library Microfilm: VRMCAN1923_102577
He must be this one in the 1911:
Name: Harry Pearson
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Age: 11
Birth Date: Dec 1900
Birthplace: Angleterre
Family Number: 45
Relation to Head of House: Fils (Son)
Father's Name: Arthur
Mother's Name: Martha
Tribal: English
Province: Quebec
District: Quebec East
District Number: 190
Sub-District: Poll 2
Sub-District Number: 35
Place of Habitation: L'Orme
Census Year: 1911
Page: 7
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Arthur Pearson 40
Martha Pearson 42
Stanley Pearson 19
Frank Pearson 15
Harry Pearson 11
I haven't looked at vital statistics for other provinces -- you can find sites for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and, I think, Nova Scotia, by googling the name of the province and "vital statistics". But so far there's no trace of them in Canada, assuming they would have come as young children before 1911.
Take a look here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren/
Your names don't appear in that database, though.
Sorry I couldn't be more help.
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Sincere thanks,will follow up,really appreciate what you do for us on trying to find Regards Patricia
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I was wondering is it possible that Arthur Pearson re-married ,his wife Emily must have died around 1906/7,because Gladys was adopted around that time,maybe Martha Scaldwell was his 2nd wife,Arthur was born4/9/1871 at Tuner Bottom Rishworth,curious
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Interesting theory! This Arthur's birthdate is out, though, although only slightly -- 1911 census:
Name: Arthur Pearson
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 40
Birth Date: ** Jun 1871 **
Birthplace: Angleterre (England)
Family Number: 45
Relation to Head of House: Chef (Head)
Spouse's Name: Martha
Immigration Year: 1903
Tribal: English
Province: Quebec
District: Quebec East
District Number: 190
Sub-District: Poll 2
Sub-District Number: 35
Place of Habitation: L'Orme
Census Year: 1911
Page: 6
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Arthur Pearson 40
Martha Pearson 42
Stanley Pearson 19
Frank Pearson 15
Harry Pearson 11
And the other kids don't fit.
This is their marriage:
Name: Martha Scaldwell + Arthur Pearson
Year of Registration: 1890
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Northampton (1837-1923)
County: Northamptonshire
Volume: 3b
Page: 209
This is your Arthur's:
Name: Emily Rylance + Arthur Pearson
Year of Registration: 1898
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Halifax
County: Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire
Volume: 9a
Page: 859
Looks like one of those coincidences.
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I will if you edit your post to take your email address out!
No knowing what manner of ugly spam you might get otherwise. ;)
I've sent you a short message just to get your address recorded -- I'll get you the image later on.
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