From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 2:17:01 PM UTC-7, Byker wrote:   
   > "P+Barker" wrote in message   
   > news:4d47bgt67h7tiempm...@4ax.com...   
   > >   
   > > These stories exist in most countries. Ireland for example. Many pregnant   
   > > (unmarried) girls were taken to orphanages to have their children. And   
   > > the kids were left behind. England used to send their "problem" folks to   
   > > the "penal colony," Botony Bay.   
   > Between 1865 and 1914 some 80,000 British orphans were essentially "sold" to   
   > the Canadian government for $2 a head, to be parceled out to hardscrabble   
   > farmers. For most of them their lives were little better than the farm   
   > animals they tended, and when the farm was sold, they usually stayed behind   
   > with the livestock. Their descendants now number over a million.   
   >   
   > I remember getting a snicker out of hearing Jimmy Carter brag that   
   > he could trace his ancestral lineage back to Georgia's earliest settlers. Of   
   > course he didn't mention that Georgia was settled by James Oglethorpe's   
   > debtor colony. Seems that Mr. Peanut's humble ancestors couldn't pay their   
   > bills...   
      
   They had debtors prisons and poor houses in England at one point as well.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oglethorpe interesting dude never heard of   
   him before. Ogie Oglethorpe the famed hockey tough guy goon was perhaps a   
   descendant. Thanks for posting byker.   
      
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