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Home Childen, Barnardo Children, Middlemore, Fegan Home, Quarriers, etc Genealogy & History Resources CD - The J. W. C. Fegan British Home Children Newsletter Collection 1877 to 1920 By J. W. C. Fegan, W.Y. Fullerton, D.D., etal Published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2013
The J. W. C. Fegan British Home Children Collection CD includes digitized copies of ALL surviving Fegan Homes newsletters that were published between 1877 and 1920. More than 1532 searchable pages in total (PDF format - PC & Mac).This collection of Fegan Homes newsletters was initiated by Douglas Fry, a Canadian authority on the Fegan Homes who kindly loaned us his collection of Fegan newsletters so they could be published for wider distribution. He also arranged for the Fegans (as it is known today) to loan us issues that they held in their archive but were missing from Mr. Fry's collection. Doug's collection included many issues that are not in the Fegan archive in the UK. The result is this single collection of 1532 pages of newsletters spanning 44 years. Though this is the most complete set of Fegan Home's newsletters known, please note that this collection is missing some issues that may not exist anywhere. There is no record of how many original issues were printed. Fegan newsletters varied in frequency, beginning as a monthly, then quarterly, and then back to monthly. However, there were times when shortages of time and resources caused printing lapses. Those lapses are discussed by Mr Fegan in some surviving issues, usually with an appeal for subscribers to help out with a donation. Fund raising appears to have been a never ending activity. Why are these newsletters so important to descendants of Fegan Boys and students of the British Home Child movement? Beyond being a method of updating contributors on developments at the Fegan Homes, and encouraging donations to the cause, many newsletters include lists of the boys in care, "old boys" who had graduated through the system, and sponsors. Success stories of individual Home Children were written to encourage support of Mr. Fegan's programs as were sad and often detailed stories of boys in need of assistance. Updates are often included about "Old Boys" who continued to help the Fegan Homes with donations and other assistance when they became adults, and stories of how individual "old boys" grew to be be good and productive citizens of Canada. This collection of Fegan Newsletters spans a 44 year period from 1877 to 1920 - there are gaps. Fegan's newsletters were published under three different titles during this period:
1677 Pages Published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2013 ISBN 978-1-926797-76-2 (pdf on CD edition) More Canadian Genealogy & History Resources from Global Genealogy:
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