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Record #2702
Name :
: Selina Keane MCFADZEAN (1872 - 1955)


Father
:
Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 21 Mar 1872

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 1955
Abode (1) : Place of BirthScotland, Ayr, Dalmellington
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 3 Oct 1891
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Buenos Ayrean

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Unknown
NotesI hesitated to include my Grandmother in the database...If not for the fact that she was needed to care for her mother, who was deathly ill with TB, Selina would have been taken into care by Quarrier's, when she was 14, in 1886, along with her three brothers. Quarrier's knew of her situation...she is mentioned several times in their books, but I have not established whether she was ever actually taken into care.

In 1891 she came to Canada as a domestic servant. Her destination was Bolton, Ontario...near where her brothers were reportedly living. I do believe that she was assisted by Quarrier's or some other group, after the death of her mother in 1889.

Although her father was still alive, he shortly remarried and it seems Selina had nothing more to do with him or his new family, perhaps for the same reasons that Quarrier's did not approve of him.

In Canada, Selina learned tailoring, (her maternal grandfather had been a tailor in Dalmellington, so perhaps she already had some knowledge) and lived some time at Coventry, near Bolton, with her brothers.

Sometime after the death of brother James, she met my Grandfather, Wm Arthur Gill, and moved to Barrie. They married in Feb 18, 1897, at St. Mary's RC Church. Selina converted to Catholicism and was devout all her life. She had a much happier life than she would have had in Scotland. She was a loving and protective mother who was very loved and protected by her grown children.

I feel fortunate that I have, over the past seven years, found Birth and Marriage records for my grandmother's family, and other information that has helped me piece together the story of their lives. Until finding her brothers on Marj Kohli's website I had no idea exactly what Home Children were, nor the hardships my grandmother and her siblings had faced. I did not even know she had a brother James or that her mother died so young.

Selina and Wm A. had 8 children - James Edward, my father Arthur Harold, Francis, Clarence, Catherine (Rene), Anne, Selina, and George. Five of them married and had children...I only knew the children of my Aunt Rene...so there may be cousins out there that I don't know, who are grandchildren or great-grandchildren of my Selina, and who would like this information, and for that reason I have decided to submit her information, as well as her brothers James, Thomas and Arthur McFadzean (also found Canadianized as McFadden) 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-01-11 19:21:28 / From original database

Last Updated : 2015-06-20 23:41:07 /

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3042 ABBOTT, John1881SCT,     Sep 1886 : Carthaginian CAN Emma Stirling  
3075 ABERCROMBIE, Andrew1878SCT,     Mar 1891 : Hibernian CAN Quarriers  
3076 ABERCROMBIE, William1855SCT, LKS, Glasgow Aug 1872 : St. Andrew CAN Unknown  
3100 ABRAMS, Mary Ann1898SCT,    , Dumfries May 1913 : Victorian CAN Refuge Home, Cheetham Hill, Manchester  
22560 ACTON, Philip John1917SCT,     May 1931 : Athenia CAN Quarriers  
3159 ADAIR, Henry Bower1895SCT,    , Dumfries Apr 1906 : Sicilian CAN Quarriers  
3164 ADAM, Allan Devrix1885SCT,    , Govanhill, Glasgow Apr 1897 : Siberian CAN Quarriers  
3168 ADAM, Isabella1897SCT,     Jul 1910 : Southwark CAN Quarriers  
3171 ADAM, Maggie1887SCT,     Jun 1897 : Sarmatian CAN Quarriers  
3172 ADAM, Margaret1899SCT,     Jul 1910 : Southwark CAN Quarriers  
3175 ADAM, William Butter1884SCT,    , Govanhill, Glasgow Apr 1897 : Siberian CAN Quarriers  
25417 ADAMS, William1889SCT,     Jun 1897 : Sarmatian CAN Quarriers  
9871 ADAMSON, Charles Daniels1897SCT,    , Airdrie Apr 1909 : Hesperian CAN Quarriers  
6389 ADAMSON, Christina Alison1894SCT, LKS, Glasgow Jun 1907 : Sicilian CAN Quarriers  
9872 ADAMSON, James Balfour1892SCT, LKS, Glasgow May 1905 : Corinthian CAN Quarriers  
7357 ADDISON, Hugh1876SCT,    , Jamestown Apr 1887 : Siberian CAN Quarriers  
10483 ADDISON, Thomas Snowden1905SCT,     Apr 1920 : Scandinavian CAN Quarriers  
3147 ADIE, Gregor McGregor1880SCT, LKS, Glasgow Apr 1894 : Buenos Ayrean CAN Quarriers  
5358 AITKEN, Lawrence Gray1909SCT, LKS, Glasgow Aug 1925 : Montnairn CAN National Childrens Home  
10484 AITKEN, Robert Plenderleith1904SCT,    , Limefield, Wiston & Roberton Apr 1920 : Scandinavian CAN Quarriers  
3156 AITON, William Lyle1888SCT, LKS, Glasgow Apr 1907 : Sicilian CAN Quarriers  
5679 ALCORN, Agnes Maxwell1894SCT, LKS, Glasgow Jun 1913 : Grampian CAN Quarriers  
5680 ALCORN, Margaret-Ann Irwin1897SCT, LKS, Glasgow Jul 1910 : Southwark CAN Quarriers  
3916 ALEXANDER, Agnes Barbour1888SCT,    , Coatbridge Aug 1906 : Corinthian CAN Quarriers  
10339 ALEXANDER, Beatrice Carlisle1889SCT, LKS, Glasgow Jun 1897 : Sarmatian CAN Quarriers  
6417 ALEXANDER, Charles1894SCT,     Oct 1910 : Cassandra CAN Unknown  
3917 ALEXANDER, Janet Murray1896SCT, LKS, Glasgow Jun 1906 : Corinthian CAN Quarriers  
3915 ALEXANDER, Mary Eliza1897SCT,    , Coatbridge Jul 1905 : Corinthian CAN Quarriers  
3918 ALEXANDER, Sarah Stewart1890SCT,    , Coatbridge Jun 1906 : Corinthian CAN Quarriers  
6418 ALEXANDER, Thomas1893SCT,     Jun 1910 : Hesperian CAN Cossar (George Carter)  
IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
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