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.