Barnardo's. Elizabeth Mouncey, photographed at the age of six, and again at 16. From 1869 through to 1939 (1948 to British Columbia) it has been estimated 80-100,000 children were emigrated from the United Kingdom to Canada to be used as indentured farm workers and domestic servants. Tour the British home children sites in Peterborough on Saturday 1. Enjoy a real work/life balance with flexible working times and home working. Frederick Roberts was one of the children taken to Canada from England from the late 1880s until the 1920s. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken in. The Barnardo story, London: Victor Gollancz. From 1870 to 1969, the hub of the Barnardo's home organisation was in an evolving collection of buildings on Stepney Causeway, a residential street in the Ratcliff area of east London. A British Home Child Novel by Michael Staples. With the intention of qualifying for medical . Dublin-born , twenty-one-year old Thomas John Barnardo arrived in London, England in 1866 to train for missionary work in China. Thomas John Barnardo ('the doctor') and his work with ... - infed Barnardo died of angina pectoris in London on September 19, 1905. Dr Barnardo High Resolution Stock Photography and Images - Alamy Inside Dr Barnardo's. 120 years of caring for children, London: Hodder and Stoughton. Barnardo's. NRA 22753 Barnardo's. Yet Barnardo's Village Home was the most famous, the largest, and is the only one of these first three English examples where the cottages survive. Barnardo's traces its history back to a ragged school in London's East End, opened by Thomas Barnardo to care for children orphaned by an outbreak of cholera. While children of all ages and backgrounds were accepted into the Barnardo homes in England, only those at least 14 years old and meeting certain standards were to be sent to Canada.