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Record #4236
Name :
: Ada Sophia BARKER (1878 - 1896)
  aka : Sophia Ada Barker, Sarah


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Date of Birth
: 1878

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 20 Jan 1896   Notes : Pleural Pneumonia
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Middlesex, London
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Peterborough
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 22 Oct 1892
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Sardinian

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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesA birth registration was found for Ada Sophia Barker: Year of Registration: 1878; Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar; District: Poplar (To 1965); County: Greater London, London, Middlesex; Volume: 1c; Page: 655.

Barnardos Ups & Downs Magazine, A Monthly Journal published under the auspices of Dr Barnardo's
Homes (Toronto, March 1, 1896, Vol. 1, No. 8.):

"BARKER Ada, age 18, October 1892 party, died at Hastings on January 20. She had been in the employ of Mr and Mrs Adam Humphries since coming to Canada, and is buried at Little Lake Cemetery. Cause: pneumonia. "Strange to say, just 2 days before Ada passed away, the aged grandfather, in the home where she was living, had suddenly met his death through an accident in the same house, so there was, indeed, a sad household during those days."

Ada Barker, shown as Sarah Ada Barker on her death certificate, passed away on January 20, 1896, of pleural pneumonia, 2 weeks duration. She was employed as a domestic servant at the time. She had been a part of Hazlebrae-Barnardo Home, Peterborough Ontario, Canada.

Ada Barker is buried in Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, Canada in Grave #2, Lot 5, Range 17 North, Section D. She is buried along with 46 other children who passed away at Hazlebrae House.


Published in the March 1896 edition of the Ups and Downs
Ada Barker, aged 18, whose likeness we here give, and who came out in October '92, passed away to her eternal rest on Monday January 20th. Ada was to all appearance a particularly healthy, strong looking girl, but she seems to have taken cold, and in a short time developed pneumonia, which was the cause of her death. It is with truly thankful hearts we look back on Ada's life, during the few years she was in Canada. She was a good girl, faithful and valued in her work, and loved in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Humphries of Hastings, with whom she lived from her first entering into service in Canada till the day of her death. More then that we have every reason to trust that Ada had committed the keeping of her soul to her blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and that she has now had "an inheritance among all them which are sanctified".

We feel deeply the kindness and interest of the Rev. D. A. Thomson, Presbyterian minister at Hastings, whose Church our young friend attended, and also of Mr. Adam Humphries her master, who was as one mourning for his own child, both these two gentlemen came from Hastings to Peterborough to attend the funeral, for all that was mortal of Ada had been brought home to Peterborough to be laid to rest in Little Lake Cemetery. Mr. Thomson conducted an impressive and hallowed funeral service at Hazel Brae amongst our assembled children, and also a short one at the grave. Strange to say, just two days before Ada passed away the aged grandfather in the home where she was living,had suddenly met with death through an accident in the same house, so that there was, indeed, a sad household during those days.

Pondering over these events, these words came from the lips of Mr. Humphries little child: "Well," she said, "Grandpa's gone to heaven, and Ada has gone to heaven,perhaps they are talking to each other" and we, thinking over her words fell it is but little we know of what those are doing who have passed on before, but one or two things we do know, first, that "in His presence is fullness of joy" and then, that "there the weary are at rest."

To all, even to the young and healthy, there is once more the call. "Be ye therefore ready, for at such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh". 
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