Chris Jeffery - Fairbridge: Empire and Child Migration

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Copyright G. Sherington and C.Jeffery 1998

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data:
Sherington, Geoffrey
Fairbridge: empire and child migration.- (The Woburn
education series)
1. Child Emigration Society 2. Immigrant children
Commonwealth countries 3. Great Britain- Emigration and
immigration 4. Commonwealth countries- Emigration and
immigration
I. Title II.Jeffery, Chris
304.8'2'083

ISBN 0-7130-0206-9 (cloth)
ISBN 0-7130-4036-X (paper)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sherington, Geoffrey.
Fairbridge: empire and child migration/Geoffrey Sherington and Chris jeffery.
p. cm.- (Woburn education series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7130-0206-9 (cloth)- ISBN 0-7130-4036-X (pbk.)
1. Socially handicapped children-Great Britain-Colonies
History- 20th century. 2. Fairbridge, Kingsley Ogilvie,
1885-1924. 3. Child Emigration Society (London)-History-20th
century. 4. Great Britain-Colonies-Emigration and immigration
History-20th century. !.Jeffery, Chris, 1926- II. Title. III. Series.
HV887.G5S47 1998
362.7 3-dc21 98-24334
CIP

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Research for this book began in 1984. Over the past 14 years the debts are many. We would like to thank the then Australian Research Grants Scheme for financial support for the initial stages of research. The University of Sydney has provided continuous support through approval of study leave and travel. Friends and colleagues at the University of Sydney and the Battye Library have been a great source of encouragement and advice. Barbara Rowley, the daughter of Kingsley Fairbridge, has handed on valuable sources and commented on the chapter concerned with her fathers early life. Peter Cochrane offered to read chapters and has provided comments and insights on the associations and ideas of Kingsley Fairbridge, while Stephen Garton, Craig Campbell and Bob Petersen have also read and commented on draft chapters. Patrick Dunae has kindly shared aspects of his own research into the Fairbridge scheme in Canada, and Barry Coldrey forwarded monographs on the history of Catholic child migration. Marion Fox and Patricia Jenkins handed on material which had come to light in the course of their own research. Staff at the Australian Archives, the Public Record Office, Kew, the Public Records Office, Perth, the National Archives of Zimbabwe and the Mitchell Library, Sydney have assisted the project in numerous ways. Particular thanks are due to Sue Sondalini and other staff at the Battye Library, Perth, and to Simon Wilson, Adrian Allan and the staff of the Department of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Liverpool, and to Sue Morris, who researched some of the files in Liverpool. The Fairbridge Society and the Fairbridge Foundation of New South Wales kindly granted access to records still in their keeping.