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Record #17019

Name :: : William Jeffery BALDWIN (1876 - 1945)
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 27 May 1876
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 9 May 1945

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Surrey

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Surrey

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 9 Jun 1885
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Sarmatian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Fegan Homes for Boys

NotesIn 1885, William Baldwin, 12, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 50 Fegan boys en route to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

On August 30, 1913, a marriage was registered between William Jeffrey Baldwin and Sarah Elizabeth Cartwright.

Three children were born of this marriage.

William died on May 9, 1945, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 68. Sarah Cartwright Baldwin died in 1964. They are buried at Hazelmere Cemetery, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

William Jeffrey Baldwin, as told by his daughter, Miss Geraldine Baldwin, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada (from The Home Children, by Phyllis Harrison):

My dad said that his mother arrived at the dockside to see him off and he could remember her sobbing as she watched the ship sail away. He never saw her again.

My dad's name was William Jeffrey Baldwin. He was born in Surrey, England, May 27, 1876. His own father, Robert Gordon Baldwin, was killed in the African Zulu War when dad was about five years of age. After this, his mother (born Anne Jeffrey, a governess) went to France taking her boy with her. Eventually she came back and put dad in the care of elderly aunts but it is presumed they were unable to cope with the small boy; his mother, as a governess, was not permitted to have him with her. He was put in Mr. Fegan's Home -- which one I do not know. While there the headmaster asked the boys if any of them would like to go to Canada and my dad say 'Yes.'

I expect he arrived in the Toronto Home and from there went to a farm where he remembered having to get up at daybreak and feed, water, curry, and harness horses before ploughing the fields. He was nine years of age and how long he worked there, he never said. But from there he went to work for a doctor, driving the horse and carriage while the rounds were made and avidly learning all he could.

What he earned he must have saved and when 18 or 19 years of age he came to British Columbia, settling on the lower mainland in the District of Surrey where he eventually bought property. He went to school in Cloverdale to get his primary education, and then studied at home to become a stationary engineer. Dad died in 1945 and since he has gone I realize how much more about his life I would love to know. But he would never talk about it to any extent and being so young when he came to Canada he could not remember many details of his early years. He kept his letters, Bible, and pictures of his mother in the church at Hazelmere, which he helped build, and where he thought they would be safe. The church burned down and he lost all of this including his mother's address. He never knew what happened to her.

ContributorsCreated : 2012-10-05 15:44:36 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-11-01 22:14:04 /

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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
3033	ABBOTT, Frederick	1893	ENG, SRY, Kingston Upon Thames	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
3106	ABSALOM, Richard	1874	ENG, SRY, Cobham	Apr 1890 : Sardinian	CAN	Unknown
7354	ADDISON, Annie Louise	1879	ENG, SRY, Newington	Oct 1892 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
7355	ADDISON, Emily Josephine	1880	ENG, SRY, Newington	Oct 1892 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
19366	AKEHURST, Wilfred John Kelly	1896	ENG, SRY, Chertsey	Sep 1912 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
16539	ALDRED, Albert	1904	ENG, SRY, Balham	Apr 1912 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
26426	ALLEN, Walter Bevis	1901	ENG, SRY, Kingston	Jul 1913 : Belgic	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
13065	ANDERSON, Samuel	1874	ENG, SRY, Croydon	Jul 1887 : Sardinian	CAN	Board of Guardians (Various)
9798	ANDREWS, Alice Doris	1905	ENG, SRY, Camberwell	Mar 1920 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
27648	ANDREWS, William	1902	ENG, SRY, Wandsworth	Jul 1914 : Victorian	CAN	MacPherson's
13311	ANSELL, George Edward Cecil		ENG, SRY, Lambeth	Aug 1927 : Alaunia	CAN	Church Army
25271	ARTHUR, Frederick	1913	ENG, SRY, Kingston	Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
10900	ASHLEY, Bernard Cecil	1896	ENG, SRY, Richmond	Jul 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
4566	ATKINS, Ena Mary	1906	ENG, SRY, Croydon	Sep 1915 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3568	ATTWELL, Frederick William	1909	ENG, SRY, Old Windsor	Sep 1920 : Metagama	CAN	MacPherson Homes
25141	ATTWELL, Richard	1916	ENG, SRY	May 1928 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
3932	BACKHURST, Frank	1895	ENG, SRY, Kingston	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
9835	BAGUST, Albert Edward	1897	ENG, SRY, Peckham	Mar 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3968	BAKER, Edith Jemima	1887	ENG, SRY, Camberwell	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
17019	BALDWIN, William Jeffery	1876	ENG, SRY	Jun 1885 : Sarmatian	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
11941	BANKS, Bernard	1910	ENG, SRY, Bermondsey	Jun 1924 : Athenia	CAN	Salvation Army
17167	BARNARD, Reginald	1885	ENG, SRY, Lambeth	May 1899 : Gallia	CAN	Young Colonists Aid
17255	BARNICOAT, Ethel	1898	ENG, SRY, Battersea	May 1911 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
17670	BARNICOAT, Harold Frederick	1901	ENG, SRY, Battersea	May 1911 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
8267	BARRETT, Frank	1915	ENG, SRY, Wandsworth	Apr 1928 : Montclare	CAN	Barnardos
17169	BARTH, Ethel Florence	1889	ENG, SRY, Brixton	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3855	BARTH, Evelyn Winifred	1887	ENG, SRY, Brixton	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
4238	BEAGLE, George William	1868	ENG, SRY, Camberwell	Apr 1885 : Circassian	CAN	Barnardos
9249	BEARE, Joseph George	1893	ENG, SRY, Wandsworth	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	Barnardos
5682	BEATON, George Edward	1898	ENG, SRY, Norwood	Mar 1912 : Dominion	CAN	Unknown
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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