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Record #12335

Name :: : George Alfred FORD (1884 - 1973)
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Mother: :

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Date of Birth: : 28 Jan 1884
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 15 Jan 1973 Notes : natural

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Hampshire, Gosport

6 Carolin Place

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialUnited States of America, Grand Rapids

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 9 Jul 1894
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Sardinian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesMy great grandmother died in the child birth of twins in early 1892 and my great grandfather was unable to care for all of the 9 children. He was ill and great grandmother was the one that was the "bread winner" so he kept the eldest children to take care of the new twins and decided to send my grandfather George and another son Walter with the wife of the JP of Gosport to London and take the children to Barnardos. A third child would have been sent but he was not a well child so he stayed home. My granddad was taken to the Receiving House at Stepney Causeway in East London May 1, 1892 and was moved to Sheppard House on May 10th of that same year. In July of 1894 he was taken to Liverpool and sent to Canada. He was then taken to a place called Ravenscliffe which is near Huntsville Ontario and kept there until sent to Clinton Ontario with a man named Alexander Brown (1897) where he is listed as a servant on the 1901 Ontario census. According to his records from Barnardos he was very well behaved and Mr. Brown was very fond of him. He, also, received the Silver Medal from Barnardos for good behavior. From there he went to a man names Edward Jones who is listed as his employer also of Clinton Ontario in 1909. He met and married my grandmother Ellen Shiels in 1911 who was born in Ethel Ontario and they headed out west to British Columbia where they had 3 children Edith, Velma, and William (my dad). My grandfather was a logger and worked in a cereal factory. They decided to come back to Ontario and he found there were no jobs and ended up in Detroit, Michigan. They lived with my grandmothers brother until they could afford a place of their own. One of their children died of diptheria at age 10. The oldest daughter got married and moved with her husband to Grand Rapids Michigan and grandpa and grandma decided to follow. Their son (my dad) stayed in Detroit. My grandma died in 1951 and that's when grandpa decided to go to England to visit the siblings he had never met. He had written his father from his placement in Canada as a small child but my great grandfather had never responded. He died in 1912. Grandpa died in 1973 in his late 80's. Never once did he ever mention being a BHC. I found out after my father died in 2007 by comparing dates and places. All grandpa ever said was that he worked very hard on a farm for very little money and just room and board. He always believed in hard work. I took care of him when he took ill and he never once mentioned anything but sometimes from some of the stories my father told me of his childhood my grandfathers past spilled over into my dad's present.

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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
3055	ABBOTT, Douglas Groves	1910	ENG, HAM, Hartley Wintney	Apr 1924 : Montclare	CAN	Barnardos
3150	ACRES, Ada	1864	ENG, HAM, Winchester	Jun 1874 : Sarmatian	CAN	Maria Rye
7448	ADAMS, Ernest Alfred	1889	ENG, HAM, Southampton	Jul 1901 : Numidian	CAN	Barnardos
9986	ADDERLEY, Edward George	1890	ENG, HAM, Southampton	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
17765	ADLAM, Edwin Walter	1899	ENG, HAM, Fareham	Mar 1909 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
17766	ADLAM, Thomas Albert	1901	ENG, HAM, Fareham	Mar 1909 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
6798	AINSLIE, Daisy Ann	1890	ENG, HAM, Portsmouth	Oct 1905 : Canada	CAN	Barnardos
5146	ALDWORTH, Cecil John	1915	ENG, HAM, Christchurch	Oct 1928 : Montcalm	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
5145	ALDWORTH, Sidney Francis	1912	ENG, HAM, Christchurch	Oct 1928 : Montcalm	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
9776	ALLEN, Bertha Ethel	1886	ENG, HAM, Winchester	Sep 1899 : Arawa	CAN	Barnardos
15306	ALLEN, Bessie May	1888	ENG, HAM, Winchester	Sep 1899 : Arawa	CAN	Barnardos
4093	AMES, Mildred Doris	1903	ENG, HAM, Alverstoke	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
10896	ANNALL, Frederick William	1901	ENG, HAM, Portsmouth	Mar 1915 : Scandinavian	CAN	Barnardos
25954	ARMSTRONG, Benjamin John Emmerson	1918	ENG, HAM, Hartley Wintney	Nov 1929 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes	splmum , Pinjarra1929
27393	ASHWORTH, Gordon Herbert Charles	1943	ENG, HAM, Alton	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27392	ASHWORTH, Maurice Benedict	1941	ENG, HAM, Aldershot	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
17310	AYLWIN, Arthur Edmund	1893	ENG, HAM, Portsea	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
17059	AYLWIN, Bertie	1898	ENG, HAM, Portsea	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
17311	AYLWIN, Ernest Edward	1896	ENG, HAM, Portsea	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
10932	BAKER, George Edward Windsor	1937	ENG, HAM, Southampton	May 1948 : Empire Brent (formerly Letitia II)	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
17978	BANKS, Edmund Charles	1895	ENG, HAM, Portsmouth	Jul 1907 : Kensington	CAN	Barnardos
17323	BANKS, Harry Albert	1893	ENG, HAM, Portsea	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	Barnardos
17980	BANKS, Mabel	1890	ENG, HAM, Alverstoke	Oct 1903 : Dominion		Barnardos
3442	BASHFORD, Albert Edward	1886	ENG, HAM, Isle of Wight	Jun 1891 : Vancouver	CAN	Bristol Emigration Society
3441	BASHFORD, Charlotte	1881	ENG, HAM, Isle of Wight	Jun 1891 : Vancouver	CAN	Bristol Emigration Society
8855	BIDDLECOMBE, Annie	1886	ENG, HAM, Dibden	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
10070	BLACKMAN, Phillip	1882	ENG, HAM, Gosport	Apr 1892 : Sarnia	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
7165	BLANDFORD, Elizabeth	1856	ENG, HAM, Southampton	Aug 1871 : Prussian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
7042	BLANDFORD, Frances Amelia	1859	ENG, HAM, Southampton	Aug 1871 : Prussian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
16647	BLANDFORD, Kate Jane	1861	ENG, HAM, Southampton	Aug 1872 : Sarmatian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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