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Record #2864

Name :: : William Bowman TUCKER (1859 - 1934)
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Date of Birth: : 27 Feb 1859
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1934

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Middlesex, Stepney, London

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Quebec, Maisonneuve

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 17 Sep 1871
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Prussian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : MacPherson Homes

NotesBorn in London to Phillip (a second generation hat-maker) and Ann Tucker, his parents moved to Bristol, England, when he was a few months old. His father was an alcoholic. William said in his later autobiography, "It was the drink that made me fatherless." William also remembered that his father was a violent man, "I had been sleeping in my bed, but was suddenly awakened by the scream of mother (believed to be Phillip Tucker's second wife), who stood in the middle of the floor, surrounded by neighbours, and with blood streaming down her face, while father sat over by the fireplace with a terrible blaze leaping up the chimney, and which he constantly fed with the furniture which he broke across his knee. Apparently no one dared try to restrain him."

His mother died when he was about 1 year of age and his father died 5 years later. He was in the care of a woman he called his "stepmother". At the age of seven, he became a messenger boy. "Mine was a long walk and the parcel sometimes heavy, and I received a penny for that trip also, but then I saw a good deal of life, and my pleasure compensated my pay."

At the age of 9, he was taken to St. Peter's Hospital in Bristol as a pauper student. He became close to his schoolmaster, Master Hughes, who seemed to be at the head of all regulative arrangements. A few years later, Master Hughes took him aside and said, ""There is an opportunity for you to go to Canada. Your passage will be paid. You will go in company of good guides. You will be given two suits of clothes, and a good outfit generally, and you will be found a place with a farmer, with the chance someday of owning a farm yourself."

He went to Hampton Home in London, a MacPherson agency, where he had some training and education for 3 weeks. Then he was then sent to Liverpool and embarked for Canada. Landing at Quebec, they took a train to Marchmont Home in Belleville, Ontario. After three days, he was taken to a village and chosen by a farmers wife as a laborer. He was happy and fulfilled in his placement, paid well, and given good training with this family for 5-1/2 years. This was the time he chose to complete school and obtain his teaching certificate and moving into the ministry five years later.

Rev. Tucker married Sarah Emily Miller, on September 14, 1886 in Napanee Mills, Addington County, Ontario.

Moving to Montreal, Quebec, he founded the Montreal City Mission, which survives to this day.

Rev. Tucker died in 1934 in Maisonneuve, Quebec.

Rev. William Tucker was a writer, artist and devoted minister. His full autobiography can be found here: {website}epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/glenn_nelson_adams/gold_quartz/wbtcover.htm

ContributorsCreated : 2007-11-11 12:47:29 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-02-01 15:42:42 /

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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
3020	ABBOT, Alice	1877	ENG, MDX, Islington	Oct 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3035	ABBOTT, Geoffrey Robinson	1898	ENG, MDX, Paddington	Mar 1912 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Sailing Alone
3036	ABBOTT, George	1894	ENG, MDX, London	Jul 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
27033	ABBOTT, Harry Franz	1917	ENG, MDX, Hendon	Oct 1928 : Beltana	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
3038	ABBOTT, Herman Henry	1882	ENG, MDX, Hoxton, London	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
3082	ABEL, Walter John	1869	ENG, MDX, London	Aug 1884 : Sarmatian	CAN	Board of Guardians (Various)
3133	ACLAND, Arthur Edward	1874	ENG, MDX, Holloway	Apr 1886 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
5391	AKERMAN, Martha Rosina	1891	ENG, MDX, St. Giles	Sep 1901 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
9843	ALBON, Frank Baldwin	1889	ENG, MDX, Staines	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
4649	ALBON, Mildred Margaret	1891	ENG, MDX, Teddington	Jun 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
16328	ALLMAN, Sophia Mary Ann	1875	ENG, MDX, St. George in the East	Jun 1885 : Lake WWnnipeg	CAN	Middlemore
3517	ALLUM, Jessie Maud	1899	ENG, MDX, Hillingdon Heath	May 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
10946	ALLWRIGHT, Bertha Isabella	1869	ENG, MDX, Mile End Old Town	Jun 1879 : Sardinian	CAN	Maria Rye
10947	ALLWRIGHT, Phoebe	1871	ENG, MDX, Poplar	Jun 1879 : Sardinian	CAN	Maria Rye
7528	ALVAREZ, Florence Rebecca	1862	ENG, MDX, Hackney	Nov 1869 : Hibernian	CAN	Maria Rye
3801	ANSELL, Alan Joseph	1894	ENG, MDX, Whitechapel, London	Oct 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3800	APPLEBY, Nelson F.	1910	ENG, MDX, Lewisham, London	Jun 1924 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
2934	ARMINGER, Eleanor Florence	1886	ENG, MDX, Mile End Old Town	Mar 1895 : Mongolian	CAN	Maria Rye
22113	ATKINS, Valentine	1915	ENG, MDX, Edmonton	May 1931 : Duchess of Bedford	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
3080	AUBURN, John George	1855	ENG, MDX, London	May 1872 : Varuna	CAN	Shoe Black Brigade
3680	AYRE, Arthur	1896	ENG, MDX, Stoke Newington, London	Jul 1909 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3681	AYRE, Elsie	1892	ENG, MDX, Islington, London	Mar 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3682	AYRE, Maud	1893	ENG, MDX, Stoke Newington, London	Mar 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3687	BAILEY, Emily May	1897	ENG, MDX, Edgeware	Aug 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3969	BAKER, Alfred Augustus	1886	ENG, MDX, Whitechapel, London	Jul 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
16181	BAKER, Edward George	1909	ENG, MDX, Staines	Jun 1921 : Scandinavian	CAN	Barnardos
17321	BALE, James Arthur	1896	ENG, MDX, London	Jul 1905 : Lake Champlain	CAN	Bristol Emigration Society
14741	BALL, Frederick Phillip	1878	ENG, MDX, London	May 1892 : Numidian	CAN	Childrens Aid Society
22014	BAMFORD, George Joseph	1897	ENG, MDX	Jul 1907 : Kensington	CAN	Barnardos
10259	BANKS, Constance	1899	ENG, MDX, Hendon	Aug 1913 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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