bonkin

Updated: June 10, 2025

"Passing onwards, we drove past a rosy-cheeked little fellow climbing a bank. A month in the fresh air had so changed him from the delicate, pale, thin boy, that we looked again ere we recognised Alfred Bonkin. His widowed mother will sing for joy to hear of his being thus educated, clothed, and fed, and growing up to an honest life.

Clara M. S. Lowe - God's Answers : A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada