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Record #21694

Name :: : John Nelson CARTER (1888 - 1915)
aka : Frederick Nelson Carter
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 8 Mar 1888
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 24 Apr 1915 Notes : died in WWI (missing)

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Berkshire, Watchfield

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialBelgium, St. Julien

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 8 Apr 1900
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Dominion
Placement Family: : Thomas E. West

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): : Fegans Home for Boys
Agency: : Fegan Homes for Boys

NotesJohn Nelson Carter was my (half)great-uncle. I have previously claimed my great-grandfather, Thomas Carter, who was emmigrated along with his brother, William Carter, through the Fegan's Home for Boys on the S.S. Labador in 1895. John Nelson Carter, their half-brother, was emmigrated 5 years later by Fegan's in 1900.
John Nelson was born in Shrivenham, Berkshire, England around 1888, the son of John Carter and his second wife Elizabeth Ann Alder. His mother mysteriously disappeared in 1889 and his father, John, remarried for a third time. John (the father) was hanged in 1893 for murdering his second and third wives.
The boys entered the Farringdon workhouse but in 1894 both William and Thomas were brought to Fegan's by one of their older sisters. John Nelson on the other hand wasn't placed with Fegan's until 1899 and was brought to them by a Mr.Proctor of Bromsgrove Place, Farringdon, England listed as a friend.
In the spring of 1900 John Nelson emmigrated to Canada with a Fegan's emmigation party on the S.S. Dominion. He was first placed with Thomas E. West of Woodstock, Ontario,a community very near his half-brother Thomas. The Fegan records note John Nelson as being very unsatisfactory withbad habits a bad temper--unlike his brothers who were aways noted as being hard working,fine boys.
The Fegan records follow John Nelson through the following placements over the years:

1900 indentured to Thomas E. West of Woodstock, Ontario
1902 indentured to Mr. Laupman or Kaufman of Eastwood, Ontario
In 1903 he had run away from Mr. Laupman's to a Jesse Allen of Holbrook, Ontario where he was left to be closer to his half-brother Thomas.
1904 indentured to George Stone of Holbrook, Ontario. (He was said to be doing far better here.)
In Sept. 1904, the last Fegan record entry,notes information received from his brother Thomas. John Nelson was said to have gone to Toronto and was doing very badly.
Through my research I believe he joined the 48th Highlanders and later served and died during WWI under the name Frederick Nelson Carter. He had listed a Miss Mabel Ryan as next of kin on his elistment papers. He died during a gas attack at the battle of Ypres, Belgium.

ContributorsCreated : 2013-01-23 23:46:04 / From original database

Last Updated : 2013-01-24 13:08:23 /

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3160	ABSOLOM, Albert Edward	1897	ENG, BRK, Reading	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3107	ABSOLOM, Henry Richard James	1893	ENG, BRK, Reading	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3109	ACASTER, Ebenezer William	1867	ENG, BRK, Newbury, Stockcross	Aug 1887 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
13740	ALLUM, Elizabeth	1889	ENG, BRK, Easthampstead	Apr 1906 : Friesland	CAN	Barnardos
6641	ANDERTON, Albert	1912	ENG, BRK, Reading	Mar 1927 : Montrose	CAN	Barnardos
6642	ANDERTON, Charles	1912	ENG, BRK, Reading	Mar 1927 : Montrose	CAN	Barnardos
7372	ANSELL, Thomas	1881	ENG, BRK, Newbury	Nov 1891 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
23615	APPLEFORD, Harry	1921	ENG, BRK, Reading	May 1933 : Otranto	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
17082	ATKINS, Francis Henry	1878	ENG, BRK, Reading	Apr 1891 : Parisian	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
3282	AUSTIN, George Henry	1889	ENG, BRK, Maidenhead	Aug 1896 : Scotsman	CAN	Barnardos
3620	AVERILL, Ernest John	1894	ENG, BRK, Reading	Jun 1909 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
10194	BEGGS, George Henry	1895	ENG, BRK, Cookham	Apr 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
21694	CARTER, John Nelson	1888	ENG, BRK, Watchfield	Apr 1900 : Dominion	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
13840	CARTER, Thomas	1882	ENG, BRK, Watchfield	May 1895 : Labrador	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
21693	CARTER, William Henry	1886	ENG, BRK, Watchfield	May 1895 : Labrador	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
4685	CLARIDGE, Edward William	1908	ENG, BRK, Binfield	Apr 1923 : Antonia	CAN	Salvation Army
12349	COXHEAD, Fanny	1877	ENG, BRK, Hungerford	Aug 1889 : Caspian	CAN	Barnardos
26273	DEARLOVE, Kenneth	1921	ENG, BRK, Reading	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
21147	ELLIOTT, Albert Cecil	1909	ENG, BRK, Abingdon	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
21146	ELLIOTT, Evelyn Violet	1910	ENG, BRK, Reading	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
21145	ELLIOTT, Hilda Gladys	1908	ENG, BRK, Reading	May 1921 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
11968	FAIRFAX, Kate Annie	1897	ENG, BRK, Denchworth	Mar 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
12020	FELDWICK, Henry	1862	ENG, BRK, Windsor	Jun 1874 : Sarmatian	CAN	Maria Rye
27050	FOX, George	1917	ENG, BRK, Wokingham	Oct 1928 : Beltana	AUS	Fairbridge Homes	Pinjarra1929
20892	GOLDSWORTHY, Joseph Ernest	1913	ENG, BRK, Reading	Jan 1924 : Baradine	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
16985	HAWKINS, William T C	1895	ENG, BRK	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
10348	HOWARD, Harold R	1897	ENG, BRK, Eaton Hastings	Mar 1913 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
3927	ISAACS, Frederick Reginald	1910	ENG, BRK, Newbury	May 1922 : Orsova	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
13903	LANGLEY, William	1873	ENG, BRK, Cookham	Aug 1887 : Toronto	CAN	Church Emigration Society
26259	MAY, Frederick John	1928	ENG, BRK, Hungerford, Reading	Jan 1937 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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