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From: "Carol Rowe" <>
Subject: Fw: [SCT-ISLAY] Re:Parkhouse
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:45:26 +1000


There's a book available about this shameful part of Australian history.
It's called "When Innocence Trembles". It's about the voyage from Britain,
and the institutions that the children were placed in when they arrived.
They were abused by the priests and carers, and the worst part was that some
of them were of a tender age.There was a particularly notorious home in
South Australia, but I can't think of the name of it. I've lent the book to
an English friend, so I can't give you the author or the ISBN number. I
think all this happened in the early 1940's.
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From: "Dixie Cutler" <>
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Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Re:Parkhouse


> Oh, my, what a frightful (and very Dickensian) story. It's so awful one
> wonders if someone has the movie rights tied down!
> Dixie Cutler
> Vancouver, Canada
> > Back in the 1880-90's there were a large group of boys who were forcibly
> > emigrated to Auckland New Zealand. They were called "the Parkhouse boys"
and
> > I believe they may have come from Glasgow. They were supposedly boys who
had
> > been in trouble with the law, orphans, unemployed, residents of
workhouses
> > or may have been just off the street. Some were as young as 10, some as
old
> > as 20. The authorities had a big clean up and shipped them off to the
> > 'colonies' so they would no longer be a drain on the city ecomomy. Here
they
> > were put to work for meagre wages as there was a depression here too.
Some
> > made good , some ended up in gaol and some died as the conditions which
they
> > were living under were really bad. There is documentation about these
'boys'
> > in the NZ National Archives. Celia Geary.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "ROSS HOLMES" <>
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> > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Caskie & McKenzie
> >
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