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Record #4495

Name :: : Bertram HALLS (1910 - 1986)
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 27 Apr 1910
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1986

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

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 26 Jul 1924
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Ausonia
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Salvation Army

NotesBert, my father age 7 lost his father to the 1st world war in France during 1917. His mother took in a "lodger" and later became married to this man. My fathers older brother whom he loved very much died at at the young age of 16. My father gradually felt outcast and unwanted in his mothers home and at age 14 he went to Canada to work on farms. The Salvation army arranged for his journey to Canada and the group he travelled with were listed as home children.

Although he never said, I am wondering if he was rejected to the extent that he had to be taken in by a childrens home. I have a photograph of him with his father and brother and he told me he had purposefully cut his mothers picture from the photograph because of his treatment.

He told me his story of his 3 years in Canada and most of it he enjoyed, made friends and was treated very well. He worked with Hereford cattle and horses, the work was hard but he loved it. He did have a very tragic experience when his friend, the son of the family he was staying with was killed in a terrible shooting accident whilst they were out in the horse drawn buggy. The boys were not aware of gun safety and the shotgun was left cocked. It went off when they drove over bumpy ground. My father drove his mortally wounded friend back to his home. His friend died some 3 days later.

I believe his friend was named Walter Mills but I am not sure. My father stayed with 3 families during this time, the Johnsons of Elkhorn, the Mills of Kirkella and the Smithsons of Kirkella Manitoba.

He told me stories of riding on the trucks of coal trains, no fare was paid and I don't quite know where he was going to. He did say he sneaked over the border to America a few times and got in to trouble. He said that he saw a young black man being beaten, so he went in to help him and ended up being hand cuffed by a sheriff to a weighing machine. He ended up being deported from America.

I do have a lovely sepia photo of one of the homes he stayed at and you can see the vast prairie in the background. If anyone is interested maybe I can put the picture on the web site.

My father came back home to England after 3 years, he did not go home but went to a workhouse just for a day and then obtained work and somewhere to live.

My father died in 1986.

ContributorsCreated : 2008-11-22 21:36:13 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-01-17 16:26:39 /

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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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