Letters

Ihave been following your series about British Home Children with great interest. One of my great uncles was a Barnardo Boy - an orphan waif picked up on the streets of London, UK aged probably five or six years. He was extremely lucky to be chosen by a successful, prosperous businessman in Sarnia, Ontario, where I was later born and lived till age 18.

His name was William Hendricks. He married my great aunt Catherine Wright, known to me as Aunt Kitty. Her daughter Sarah married a Mr. Smith, who also lived in Sarnia. I was at Sarnia High School with the two Smith boys - Jimmy and Lyle Smith. They had a sister.

Mr. Hendricks became a very successful businessman, I believe in the insurance business; a real success story, unlike some of the other poor children shipped to Canada at the time.

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