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For over a year I have been tracking/researching a young fellow with a history linking our communities. He was a British Home Child who arrived by no choice of his own following a trans-Atlantic voyage to Portland Maine, then subsequently to the offing sites of Halifax, Montreal and Toronto. This occurring at the ripe old age of 10 (Ten) in 1904. He is placed under the care of one AJ Hay at B...
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Liela Eliza Preston was probably born in 1894; the month, day and place are still unknown. Very little is known about the first four years of her life in England except that her mother, also named Eliza Preston (aliases Sawyer, Clinton) was a professional beggar with no "fixed abode" who was arrested several times in the 1890's.   She was in prison during much of her child’s early years...
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Like many of us, I wish I had asked more questions about my grandfather while my parents were still alive. All I knew was that my grandfather, Harry Jackson, had come alone to Canada as a boy and had been sent to a farm in Manitoba. Initially, my curiosity was solely focused on whether Harry had siblings, was an orphan or abandoned. As my research progressed, I developed a passion for learning...
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James was 2 years old when he and his sisters and brothers were placed in the Quarrier's Home in Bridge of Weir, Scotland. They were sent, likely by train, from Edinburgh to Glasgow and were first examined at the City Orphanage in Glasgow to determine their state of health. They were transferred after only 1 day because they were in good health. When James was 3 years old he sailed to Canada ...
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Henry Saltmarsh’s Origins My great-grandfather Henry Saltmarsh was born August 17, 1855 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, when his mother, Sarah Thurley was a temporary resident of the Bishop’s Stortford Union workhouse and shortly before his father, Charles Saltmarsh, a servant and agricultural laborer, was convicted for the second time of larceny and receiving stolen goods. Henry was th...
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Frederick William Smith was born in Petworth Workhouse, Sussex, England on September 7th 1894 to Mary Jane Smith, an unwed Mother. According to records, they lived in several workhouses over the next few years until she met and married Alfred Jupp Denyer and they took upresidence in Hove, Sussex. Nathan Thomas Alfred Denyer was born in 1899 and Edward Charles in 1902. Frederick now had two h...
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