Notes A birth registration was found for John Henry Whitewright: Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1877; Registration district: Wolverhampton; Registration County: Staffordshire; Volume:6b; Page: 624. Parents: John Whitewright and Emma Jessie Russell, married October 26, 1868, St George, Everton, Lancashire, England. (EDITORS NOTE: In October, 1872, Emma Jessie Whitewright was imprisoned for larceny and receiving for a period of 1 year and with police supervision for 7 years. She was fined for bill of costs. Emma Jessie Whiteright died in 1890).
In 1887, John Whitewright, 10, arrived in Canada in a group of 38 Middlemore children accompanied by Mr. John T. Middlemore and en route to the Guthrie Home, London, Ontario, Canada.
"Copy of Reports of Inspection of Pauper Children sent out to Canada made by Immigration Officers of the Dominion Government and received from the Colonial Office on the 12th December 1888.
Report of Mr. John Smith, Government Immigration Agent, at Hamilton.
John Whitewright, aged 10. From Wolverhampton Union. Placed with Alfred W. Turry, Spring Arbor, P.O., Tp. Walsingham, Norfolk, Ontario.?Removed to Mrs. S. Mead's, Tp. Biddulph, Lucan Co. Honest but a great storyteller, bright and intelligent. Goes to church and Sunday school, troubled with urinal discharges, dirties himself in bed and in his clothes. Goes to church and Sunday school, instructed at home, very kindly treated. Not permanently located."
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