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Record #5491

Name :: : Florence ROBSON (1901 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

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Date of Birth: : 1901 (approx.)
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Northumberland, Newcastle

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 25 Jun 1913
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Corinthian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesFlorence Robson was born into a family of seven children in a tiny village near Newcastle, England.

Florence might never have emigrated from England in 1913, if she and her father had been able-bodied. But her dragging leg, her father's tuberculosis, and her mother's latest pregnancy seemed like too many challenges for one family to handle alone.

Florence recalled, "One day, Mother said she was taking me to the Babies' Castle, a Barnardo home for crippled children. She said they would straighten my leg (which they did, by given me callipers), and then she would come for me. I never saw my mother again. One day, a nurse came and told me Daddy had gone to heaven so I would have to stay at the home."

At the age of 12, Florence Aulph wasn't asked whether she wanted to go to Canada. She was sent. That was in 1913, but she remembered being taken to the docks by carriage, and how she dropped her doll, which was smashed under the wheels. It was the end of her childhood.

In 1913, Florence Robson, 12, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 135 Barnardo girls en route to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

After a three-week sea crossing, I ended up in a foster home in Hagersville,--just me and two little boys. I didn't play with the other children there as we weren't considered as good as them.

"We were just Home kids and weren't supposed to have any feelings. I got terribly withdrawn as it seemed nobody wanted me, only for the work I did.

"Later I was sent to another farm [in Fergus], a dreadful place. The man had a vicious temper and beat me if I forgot something or didn't do it right. I was the hired hand and housemaid, too. I worked my soul out for three dollars a month."

Florence was 18 before she "escaped" to become a ladies' maid in town.

On March 21, 1923, at Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Florence Robson, 23, born in Newcastle, Northumberland, England (her parents names were unknown to her); and Henry Lorne Aulph, 33, boilermaker, born in Alvinston, Ontario, Canada, to Richard Aulph and Theodosia Shultis. Witnesses were John Aulph of Inwood and Barbara Aulph of London, Ontario, Canada.

She was "as happy as a lark" in her marriage. Florence kept in touch with her family until her mum died. She had one sister left alive who came to visit Florence one time. But they were strangers, with no kinship left.

Then, in 1991, Florence went to live in an old people's home in Ontario.

"I started out life in a little orphan home at four, and I end up here in another home, and sometimes," she said, "I wonder if there is a God."

ContributorsCreated : 2009-03-08 16:46:08 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-03-15 21:16:38 /

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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
3061	ABDALE, John George	1873	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Mar 1891 : Norwegian	CAN	Barnardos
9729	AITCHISON, Isabella	1900	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Jul 1914 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
10026	AITCHISON, Margaret	1903	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Jul 1914 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
21339	ALESIA, Frances Elizabeth	1897	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jun 1913 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
10160	ALEXANDER, Ernest Augustus	1892	ENG, NBL, Gosforth	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
10161	ALEXANDER, Thomas Anderson	1888	ENG, NBL, Gosforth	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
10489	ATKINSON, Eliza King	1910	ENG, NBL, Tynemouth	Oct 1920 : Scandinavian	CAN	Barnardos
17133	AUCKLAND, Alexander	1882	ENG, NBL, Belford	Apr 1894 : Labrador	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
5196	AUTON, Margaret	1922	ENG, NBL, Newcastle	Sep 1935 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Fairbridge Homes
5213	AUTON, Ronald	1929	ENG, NBL, Newcastle	Sep 1935 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Fairbridge Homes
5681	BEATON, George Alexander	1897	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Apr 1911 : Hesperian	CAN	Quarriers
26950	BELL, Alice	1930	ENG, NBL, Newcastle T.	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26247	BELL, Doreen	1924	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1937 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26248	BELL, Harriet	1923	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1937 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27388	BELL, John George		ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27389	BELL, Joyce	1938	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27306	BELL, Mary Rose	1932	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jul 1939 : Orama	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
27390	BELL, Rosalind Barbara	1937	ENG, NBL, Newcastle upon Tyne	Jan 1949 : Ormonde	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26949	BELL, Sidney	1926	ENG, NBL, Newcastle T.	Nov 1938 : Themistocles	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
3571	BLACKETT, John	1912	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	May 1929 : Montroyal	CAN	British Immigration and Colonisation Association
11884	BULLER, Dinah	1867	ENG, NBL, Ulverston	May 1884 : Sarnia	CAN	Unknown
10580	BYWATER, Gladys	1908	ENG, NBL, Tynemouth	Sep 1922 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
10627	CALLAWAY, George	1915	ENG, NBL, Tynemouth	Apr 1929 : Duchess of York	CAN	Barnardos
4461	CARR, Sidney	1908	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Aug 1928 : Cedric	CAN	Harvesting Scheme
26324	CHAPMAN, Joseph	1923	ENG, NBL	Aug 1932 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
16132	COCHRANE, Michael	1876	ENG, NBL, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	Mar 1892 : Carthaginian	CAN	Barnardos
12093	COLTMAN, Herbert Newton	1917	ENG, NBL, Newcastle T.	May 1928 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
5147	COWEY, Patrick	1914	ENG, NBL, Newcastle	Oct 1928 : Montcalm	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
16396	CRAIG, James	1908	ENG, NBL, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
16395	CRAIG, Robert Sheppard Bradley	1911	ENG, NBL, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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