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Record #4406
Name :
: Edwin Albert WEATHERALL (1902 - 1982)


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Date of Birth
: 14 Sep 1902

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 18 Nov 1982
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Middlesex, Bethnal Green, London

Workhouse
Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 25 Jun 1913
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Corinthian

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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesA birth registration was found for Edwin Albert Weatherall: Year of Registration: 1902; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; District: Bethnal Green; County: Greater London, London, Middlesex; Volume: 1c; Page: 222. Parents: Unknown Cogoum and Hannah Grady Weatherall.

Hannah Weatherall was married to John Henry Weatherall in England. Hannah was born in Wapping, Middlesex England. John Henry was born at St. George East, Middlesex, England. They had from the records four children in 1899 and Hannah was pregnant with their fifth child. John (17) employed at a boiler maker's; Thomas (8), Joseph (5) and Maude Jane (4). John Henry Weatherall was listed as a drinker and said to have been in a street brawl that caused complications from which he died on August 20, 1899. Hannah gave birth to a baby boy on December 25, 1899 in Whitechapel, the same hospital that employed Hannah. She named him Victor. She tried to keep him with her, but she was unable to work and look after him, so, at four months old, Barnardo's were called in and took him. She apparently continued to work at the hospital. There she met a gentlemen only referred to as Cogoum. The Barnardo records say he was a carpenter. She co-habitated with him, and, again, became pregnant. Upon hearing this news he disappeared and was not heard of again. When Cogoum ran out on them she became in arrears for rent, so she and her young children went into the Bethnal Green Workhouse and it was there that she had Edwin Albert Weatherall. The papers say she took all of her children and left the workhouse on October 10, 1902. On November 7, 1902 she took Edwin back to Stepney and gave him over to the care of the Barnardos. Hannah told Barnardos she was 39 years old at that time.

In 1913, A. Weatherall, 10, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 155 Barnardo boys accompanied by Mrs. Lloyd, matron, and en route to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (His brother, Victor Weatherall arrived in Quebec, Canada, on the Sicilian and on July 11, 1911.)

The first farm he was sent to the wife and son were cruel, and luckily the husband was kind enough to remove him from his son and wife's abuse. The second home was kind.

On December 18, 1926, Albert Weatherall married Margaret Luella McCann, born November 19, 1905, to William McCann and Letita Gawley.

Albert always believed his name was Albert Wetherall. He was also told he was seven when if fact he was eleven. In 1956 Margaret Weatherall contacted Barnardos and found out that Albert was four years older then he thought.

Albert was always led to believe he had a brother five years older then him. When he was about nineteen he was at a social and met a gentlemen named Walter Stanley Wetherall. Stanley (known to Albert's family as "Uncle Stan") always was told he had a brother five years younger and so they took each other for brothers and remained with that relationship until their passing. He did not wish to pursue his home child past, and, in face, when his daughter obtained an autographed copy of The Little Immigrants, he threw it across the room at her and refused to look at it or read it.

Edwin Albert Weatherall died November 18, 1982. Margaret Luella McCann Weatherall died February 6, 1977. 
ContributorsCreated : 2008-10-18 14:57:56 / From original database

Last Updated : 2017-09-29 15:45:38 /

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