Originally Posted by
karen murphy
The quotation relates more to methodism and also some 20 years later than the records I looked at - do you think it's likely that this was also happening with the Catholics in the 1860s?
This may have some bearing on what was happening in the city around 1860?
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1860, was only 8 years following on from the end of the Irish potatoe famine,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland). Conditions for the children of Irish Catholic families, living in Liverpool at the time, would have been dire throughout this period and for a long afterwards. Perhaps best illustrated through the life of Father James Nugent, who tried to improve the circumstances of children's lives in the city.
Father James Nugent was born in 1822. In 1849 he opened a Ragged School at Copperas Hill to take homeless children off the streets. Father Nugent established a night shelter and refuge giving homeless boys food and lodging but in 1867 there were so many boys needing his help that he decided to set up a residential school The Boys Refuge was opened in 1869. There impoverished boys learned shoe making, tailoring, joinery and printing. Father Nugent also participated in the child emigration to Canada from 1870 to 1930. In 1880 he took over 300 people from Galway Ireland to St Paul’s, Minnesota, USA
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/m...er_nugent.aspx
Child transportation to Australia stopped after the Gold rush in 1853, and children were instead transported to Canada (through Liverpool). Although in Father Nugent's case, this wasn't until 1870, as mentioned by az above. Maria Rye took a group of orphaned girls over to Canada, in 1869 (via Liverpool again).
http://www.fairbridgecanada.com/childmigration.pdf
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