home child

English

Noun

home child (plural home children)

  1. (historical) A person who was sent as a child from the United Kingdom to one of its colonies, under a migration scheme founded in 1869.
    • 2011, Simon Fowler, Family History: Digging Deeper:
      […] orphanages sent tens of thousands of children to start new lives in the overseas dominions, particularly Australia and Canada. Some 100,000 children were sent to Canada alone, and about a quarter of all Canadians have a home child on their family tree.
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