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Record #4597

Name :: : Alice Trixie RUTTY (1893 - )
aka : Griffin
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1893
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Sussex, Brighton

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 2 Oct 1903
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Dominion
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesA birth registration was found for Alice Trixie Rutty: Year of Registration: 1893; Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec; District: Brighton; County: Sussex, East Sussex; Volume: 2b; Page: 20

A possible sibling Ernest born 1895 was admitted to Strand Union School at Edmonton on 24 June 1908, address of mother unknown, he was transferred on 15 March 1911 to the Infirmary. He had previously been admitted on several occasions to the Infirmary between 1900 and 1905. He was stated as being born in Brighton. In 1901 Census, he was aged 6 and a patient in Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary. Battersea, London. In 1911, He was aged 16 and an inmate in Wandsworth Union Infirmary.

In 1901, Alice Trixie Rutty, 7 years of age, was shown as a pupil at Dr. Barnardos Home, Ilford, Essex, England. (Source: 1901 Census of England; Class: RG13; Piece: 1652; Folio: 86; Page: 12.)

In 1903, A. J. Rutty, 10, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 127 Barnardo girls en route to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

42701-26 Harold Vivian LANCASTER, 20, motor mechanic, Peterboro, 266 Simcoe St. same, s/o Vivian William (b. Canada) & Annie Jane, married Alice Trixie RUTTY, 30, clock maker, Brighton England, 435 Rogers St. Peterboro, d/o parent's names unknown, witn: Annie Jane & V. W. LANCASTER both of 2 Crescent Ave. Peterboro on Nov. 6, 1926 at Peterboro

In "Nation Builders: Barnardo Children in Canada" by Gail Helena Corbett, (Published by Dundurn Press Ltd., 2002, ISBN 1550023942, 9781550023947, 133 pages) Alice Rutty Griffin wrote:

"1903

They took me in and I had a little blue muffler and coat. I was six and I was crying. They sent me to the Girls' Village Home, a beautiful place with rows and rows of cottages each named after a flower. My cottage was Honey Suckle Cottage. After that I went to be boarded out at Aunt Patti's who got paid for keeping us Barnardo Children and sending us to school each day. One day they took me from her and sent me and some other girls to Stepney Causeway where they fitted us for Canada.

Mr. A. B. Owen, the head Canadian man came to get us. We were so excited to get a ride on the boat that we didn't worry much. As we came close to the Canadian shoreline the trees were splendid with colour and I remember saying "Do trees grow like this in Canada?" I was ten years old. We arrived in Montreal and I can remember sitting on the floor in the Montreal Station, our bags scattered all around us. Finally, we arrived at Peterborough. We had trunks with our full name and number on the front and in the trunk we had clothes, a Bible, a Sankey Hymn Book and a toy.

First, they placed me out at a farm and by 12 years old I had matured into young womanhood which frightened me terribly having not knowledge of it. My periods stopped and the farm woman accused me of playing around with the hired boy as we worked in the fields side by side. She took me to the village doctor and sent me back to Hazelbrae complaining that there was something physically wrong with me.. The Hazelbrae doctor prescribed medicine and soon things were back to normal.

Out I went again, this time I stayed only 2 months and took down with rheumatism and the doctor said I was in a very run down condition so they sent me back to the Home where I stayed for a year to get built up. My nerves were so bad since childhood that bed wetting was an embarrassing problem. In England we were punished for bed wetting and at the Home in Peterborough I had to stand in the hallway while all the children filed past. I hid my face in my pinafore for shame. When I was older the doctor attending me traced my problem back to the childhood punishments and severe nervous condition which had developed. My condition was so run down that I remember one farm woman rubbing my cheeks to get them rosy before the visiting lady from the Home arrived.

Finally they sent me to a maiden lady and her mother where I stayed for 15 years. The woman had to work in the woolen mill to support herself and her mother. The burdochs had grown right to her back door. Each day, I would take the sickel [sic] and work the burdochs back. Then I dug a small garden patch further back each year until finally Miss ____ had a man plough it. I loved to cut the wood with a cross cut saw securing the log with my foot, whistling away, happy as a lark. I guess I would have stayed there forever, except one day a friend came to me and said: "Listen, are you going to stay with Miss ____ all your life? You come out and get a place of your own. In fact I know a place for you at Dr. and Mrs. ____."

At the doctor's I was treated like a maid for the first time in my life. I lived in back quarters and used back stairs and was never premitted [sic] to be with them. For weeks I would return to my room and cry and write to Miss ____. But I could not go back.

Often I thought about Hazelbrae, those big trees and the wide meadow, and the hill we used to roll down and the Christmas I stayed, the splendid dinner, Christmas pudding and everything. even the ladies came and ate with us. On the 24th of May and holidays the Home would have a party out on the large lawn under the trees, we would have tea together. Sometimes Old Girls would come back to the Home to renew acquaintances.

I never heard about or from my own people. Finally I sent to Somerset House to see if I'd been registered and I found out from them that my father was registered as a travelling jeweller and died when I was one year old leaving two brothers and my mother who remarried. I wondered about my mother and Barnardo said that they were very sorry but she had never inquired for me since she took me to Stepney Causeway."

ContributorsCreated : 2009-01-07 10:39:03 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-08-22 05:06:16 /

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3057	ABBOTT, Harold Lancelot	1895	ENG, SSX, Steyning	Jul 1911 : Corsican	CAN	Labourers & Domestics
21088	ADAMS, Percy Robert	1884	ENG, SSX, Hastings	Apr 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
8059	ADAMS, Sophia Elizabeth	1847	ENG, SSX, Hurstpierpoint	Jun 1869 : Austrian	CAN	Maria Rye
16636	ALABASTER, George William	1877	ENG, SSX, Chichester	May 1890 : Parisian	CAN	Rev. William J. Pady
2851	ALCE, William Henry	1894	ENG, SSX, Seaford	May 1911 : Corsican	CAN	Louisa Birt
9623	ALDRICH, Francis Vincent	1900	ENG, SSX, Brighton	May 1910 : Corsican	CAN	Unknown Catholic Group
10218	ALEXANDER, Edward Bubbings	1901	ENG, SSX, Rye	May 1913 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
10417	ALEXANDER, Kevin Ernest	1909	ENG, SSX, Littlehampton	May 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Father Hudsons Homes
25137	ANDREWS, Herbert George	1912	ENG, SSX	Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
19225	BACKSHALL, Charles Albert Edward	1903	ENG, SSX, Brighton	Sep 1912 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
16427	BANKS, Harry	1915	ENG, SSX, New Haven	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
16392	BANKS, Hilda Pearl	1909	ENG, SSX, Eastbourne	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
16391	BANKS, Ivy Melisa	1917	ENG, SSX, Eastbourne	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
4077	BARBER, Walter	1887	ENG, SSX, Camberwell	Jun 1906 : Siberian	CAN	Middlemore
8684	BARRINGER, Frank	1895	ENG, SSX, Lewes	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos	Shanley
11076	BATHE, Harry	1889	ENG, SSX, Brighton	Sep 1901 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
4317	BEATEY, James Henry	1873	ENG, SSX, Steyning	1888 : - Unknown -	CAN	Washwell House
16688	BLUNT, Albert	1882	ENG, SSX, Eastborne	Mar 1892 : Carthaginian	CAN	Barnardos
22125	BONE, Peter Knowles	1913	ENG, SSX, Eastbourne	May 1931 : Westernland	CAN	National Association of Boys\' Clubs
3481	BOUGH, Arthur	1896	ENG, SSX, Steyning	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
27021	BREACH, Godfrey James	1913	ENG, SSX, Hastings	Mar 1926 : Berrima	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
8737	BRENTON, Charles L.	1911	ENG, SSX, Hailsham	Apr 1928 : Andania	CAN	Waifs & Strays
5511	BROOKMAN, Michael John. D.	1930	ENG, SSX, Brighton	Aug 1939 : Orama	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
26272	BROWN, Horace	1920	ENG, SSX, Hastings	Apr 1930 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
3330	BRUNGER, Ada Zora	1899	ENG, SSX, Hastings	Apr 1912 : Corsican	CAN	Louisa Birt
3329	BRUNGER, Charles Edward	1896	ENG, SSX, Hastings	May 1910 : Corsican	CAN	Louisa Birt
4247	BUDDLE, Adelaide Jane	1887	ENG, SSX, Brighton	Sep 1895 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
10661	BURRAGE, Arthur	1899	ENG, SSX, Horsham	Jul 1915 : Hesperian	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
4718	CARNOHAN, Percy Bell	1897	ENG, SSX, Brighton	Oct 1905 : Canada	CAN	Barnardos
3497	CHARMAN, George Frewin	1896	ENG, SSX, Horsham	Apr 1908 : Lake Champlain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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