THE ENIGMATIC MR DELVIN

Sir,—I may be able to identify ‘the enigmatic “Mr Delvin, Ireland”’ who is cited in Fiona Fitzsimons’s article on ‘Home Children—an Irish perspective, 1860s to 1922’ (HI 34.3, May/June 2023) as having brokered in 1899 the emigration to Canada of ‘a group of young women with a median age of nineteen’. Charles Ramsey Devlin (1858–1914), ... Read more

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