SOURCES
The most comprehensive published
source is Geoff Blackburn’s ‘The Children’s Friend Society’, which includes an
index to the names of children sent to the Cape as well as embarkation rolls
(those which survive) and letters written by some child emigrants. This book
also discusses children sent to Western Australia
and Canada ; generally these
fared better than the child emigrants to the Cape .
Should you wish to dig deeper,
the CFS Annual Reports for 1834 and 1838 are held at the British Library. The 1836 Report and other CFS material can be
found at TNA, Kew
in CO 48/204. The 1839 Report is in the Kress-Goldsmith Library, London ;
a microfilmed version is available at the University Western Australia
The Gloucestershire Record Office
has a collection known as the Hardwicke Papers, including a volume of pamphlets
concerning Brenton and the CFS. Among these are the 1835 and 1836 Annual
Reports.
The 1840 ‘Report from the
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope relative to the Conditions and Treatment of
the Children sent out by the CFS’ is available at TNA Kew in CO 48/207. A
reprint has been published by the Irish University Press. A copy of the 1840
Report is held in the Free State Archives, Bloemfontein , SA, in an Imperial Blue Book
(VAB IBB Vol 2 Ref 323).
There are numerous press reports
(UK) on the CFS from its founding (as the Society for the Suppression of
Juvenile Vagrancy) in November 1830, through its development and successful
years up to 1838, the Trubshaw case and Brenton’s death in 1839 and subsequent
decline of the Society to 1841.
FURTHER READING :
Brenton, J: Memoir of Captain
Edward Pelham Brenton R.N., C.B. with sketches of his professional life and
exertions in the cause of humanity as connected with the Children’s Friend
Society (London
1842)
Bradlow, E: The Children’s Friend
Society at the Cape of Good
Hope (Victorian Studies Vol 27 No 2 1984)
Blackburn, G: The Children’s
Friend Society: juvenile emigrants to Western Australia , South Africa and Canada
1834-1842 (Western Australia
1993)
Brown, M: Die Children’s Friend
Society in Engeland en die Kaap die Goeie Hoop, 1830-1841 (In Afrikaans;
Archives year book of South African history 1994)
Bull, E: Aided Immigration from Britain to South
Africa 1857-1867 (HSRC Pretoria
1991)
Wagner, G: Children of the Empire
(London
1982)
Fowler, Simon: Workhouse, An
Everyday Tale of Ultimate Degradation (The National Archives 2007)
Shore, H: Artful Dodgers: Youth
& Crime in Early 19th century London
(Boydell Press,
Thomas, D: The Victorian
Underworld (1998)
ONLINE
Transcripts of embarkation rolls
from Blackburn ’s book.
Details of the Hibner trial 1827.
Fascinating background
information on UK
workhouses and their records, photos, maps, lists and the Poor Law Acts.
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