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From: "Carol Rowe" <>
Subject: Fw: [SCT-ISLAY] Re:Parkhouse
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:00:53 +1000


I've just remembered another book about this called "Lost Children Of The
Empire."
Carol Rowe (Currie)
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From: "Carol Rowe" <>
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Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: Fw: [SCT-ISLAY] Re:Parkhouse


> 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.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dixie Cutler" <>
> To: <>
> 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" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:16 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Caskie & McKenzie
> > >
> >
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