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Record #13399

Name :: : Charlotte ROBERTS (1885 - 1976)
aka : Lottie
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 20 Feb 1885
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : Jan 1976

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

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialUnited States of America, California, Glendale

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 17 Oct 1896
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Scotsman
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesAnnie and Lottie were born in Hampshire in 1883 and 1885 respectively. When Annie was born in Fareham her mother Eliza Ann was 36 and her father John 59 a widower. John was a dairyman by trade, and the couple had married in 1879.

By the time Lottie joined the family their father was keeping a lodging house at 5 Bateman?s Alley, Portsea. Bateman?s Alley doesn?t appear on the current maps of the area.

The family?s fortunes took a turn for the worse when John died in the summer of 1885 aged 61. Lottie was still a small baby and Annie not yet two.

Their mother, Eliza Ann remarried the following year, to a John Firth. It doesn?t seem as if this relationship worked out well. It appears that John Firth deserted the little family and the girls and their mother would soon be parted.

The 1891 census records show that Eliza is in Portsea Island Union Workhouse. She is a charwoman and is listed as being married.

At this time Annie and Lottie, now aged seven and five are with a foster mother, forty-nine year old spinster, Sarah Haines, who was a dressmaker, at 97 Portway, Warminster, Wiltshire. Surely being in a country market town must have been better for these little girls than living in the grim looking workhouse, though doubtless it would have been traumatic for them leaving their mother.

The next we hear of Annie and Lottie is in 1896 with a party of 180 Dr Barnardos boys and girls bound for Toronto, Canada as ?Home Children? as such child emigrants are now known. The children set sail from Liverpool of October 8th aboard the SS Scotsman and arrived 9 days later in Quebec. They would probably have travelled on to Toronto by train, a journey of about 500 miles.

We don?t know what happened to the girls for a number of years, though it is very likely that they were in domestic service and not so likely that they stayed together. We do know, though that they either kept in touch or made contact again with one another by the time they were in their 20s.

Meanwhile, a similar drama had developed back in the old country, for a young boy who had had an unfortunate start in life. Ivor Sydney Cuthbert Brooker was born to his unmarried mother in Reading in 1892. In 1906 when Ivor was almost 14 he, too, was sent out to Canada, to Toronto, designated as a ?farm child?. Ivor?s story forms another family biography.

When we next meet our girls its 1913 and they are sharing a celebration: Lottie is marrying our young seafarer, Ivor, who is now 21, and Annie is a witness to the proceedings. Ivor has left any farming days behind and has become a bookkeeper. We can only speculate how Lottie and Ivor met but could it be that Lottie was a housemaid on the farm to which Ivor was allocated and that they formed a bond from those days?

Annie met and married Alfred Green who was also born in England though as yet we have not been able to track down the date and place of their marriage. In any event young Vernon A(lfred?) was born to them on 1st November 1919, in Toronto.

ContributorsCreated : 2011-01-29 08:04:47 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-01-29 08:10:07 /

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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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