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Record #4639

Name :: : John Leonard ALLDRIDGE (1884 - 1972)
aka : John Leonard Alldridge Wa
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 18 Aug 1884
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 12 Aug 1972

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Warwickshire, Birmingham

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

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 27 Jun 1896
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Corean
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Middlemore

NotesA birth registration was found for John Leonard A. Wallis; Year of Registration: 1884; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; District: Birmingham (1837-1924); County: Warwickshire; Volume: 6d; Page: 224. Mother: Ellen Wallis; Probable Father: Henry Alldridge. (No father is listed on the birth certificate.)

Ellen Wallis married Harry (Henry) Alldridge in the March quarter of 1889 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. They had children together both before and after marriage.

Henry Alldridge was a drunk who beat his wife. He died in 1893 in Birmingham aged 32. In November 1894, Ellen placed William Henry and his 2 brothers John Leonard and Francis, and sister Ruth Rebecca, in the Middlemore Children's Home in Birmingham. Notes from the home describe Ellen's plight as dire with no money to feed her 6 starving children. She sold all their possessions and furniture trying to keep the children fed. The children where in rags and infected with lice.

Ellen kept the 2 youngest children with her but then had Arthur Alldridge, an illegitimate child, before she remarried. Ellen died in 1902, aged 41. Her new husband placed the remaining 3 children in the Middlemore Home.

By October 1896 John Leonard was living with the Murray family in Salt Springs, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.

John Leonard lived with the Murray family until at least 1902. In 1911 John Leonard is in Winnipeg, Manitoba with his brother William Henry and sister Violet and her child.

John Leonard Alldridge (Aldridge) married Matilda Jarrett in Winnipeg August 21, 1911.

John Leonard and Matilda Jarrett Al(l)dridge had four children: William Leonard Aldridge (who married Annie Evelyn Brown) (died 1974); Charles F. Aldridge; Violet Aldridge (who married F. B. Medlock); and Thomas Richard Aldridge (died 1966).

On August 23, 1961, the Winnipeg Free Press reported:

"Mr. and Mrs. John L. Aldridge of Del-Bri Apartments, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Monday with a family dinner at Riviera Restaurant. Both were born in England. He came to Nova Scotia in 1895 and to Winnipeg in 1907. She came to Winnipeg in 1910 and they were married here August 21, 1911. They have lived here since. Mr. Aldridge retired from the Midland Railway in 1950. There are three sons and one daughter: W. Leonard and Charles of Edmonton; Thomas; and Mrs. F. B. Medlock, both of this city. There are 13 grandchildren. Congratulatory messages were received from Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Lieutenant-Governor Willis, Opposition Leader Lester Pearson, Premier Roblin, Gildas Mogat, MLA, Mayor Juba, Ald. Donovan Swailes, and from their eldest grandson, Leonard Aldridge of Edmonton, the only member of the family not present for the celebration."

Matilda Jarrett Aldridge died on November 13, 1971, at the age of 82, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

ContributorsCreated : 2009-01-23 12:54:42 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-10-02 19:37:39 /

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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
3011	ABBOTT, Frederick	1896	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1906 : Siberian	CAN	Middlemore
3012	ABBOTT, George	1893	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1906 : Siberian	CAN	Middlemore
3058	ABBOTT, Herbert William	1893	ENG, WAR, Aston, Erdington	Jun 1906 : Siberian	CAN	Middlemore
3157	ACTON, Alice	1909	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jul 1923 : Montcalm	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
3155	ACTON, Laura	1892	ENG, WAR, Aston	May 1911 : Corsican	CAN	Labourers & Domestics
21189	ADAMS, William	1916	ENG, WAR, Aston	Jan 1927 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
3759	ADDERLEY, David Gerard	1897	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	May 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3758	ADDERLEY, Harry	1899	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	May 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
8128	ADIE, Dorothy May	1914	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jul 1928 : Newfoundland	CAN	Middlemore
10057	ADIE, Henry	1896	ENG, WAR, Aston	Jun 1906 : Siberian	CAN	Middlemore
5834	ADKINS, Edith May	1907	ENG, WAR, Alcester	Jun 1910 : Mongolian	CAN	Middlemore
8129	AGER, Arthur Charles	1915	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jul 1928 : Newfoundland	CAN	Middlemore
4645	ALLDRIDGE, Arthur	1897	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1904 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4640	ALLDRIDGE, Francis	1889	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1896 : Corean	CAN	Middlemore
4644	ALLDRIDGE, Harry	1892	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1904 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4639	ALLDRIDGE, John Leonard	1884	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1896 : Corean	CAN	Middlemore
4641	ALLDRIDGE, Ruth Rebecca	1890	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1896 : Corean	CAN	Middlemore
4643	ALLDRIDGE, Violet	1893	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1904 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4642	ALLDRIDGE, William Henry	1886	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1896 : Corean	CAN	Middlemore
3860	ALLEN, Florence Elizabeth	1891	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1902 : Siberian	CAN	Middlemore
10954	ALLPORT, Daisy Dot	1879	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1890 : Sardinian	CAN	Maria Rye
6926	ALLSUPP, John	1875	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1878 : Sarmatian	CAN	Middlemore
6927	ALLSUPP, Mary Ann	1872	ENG, WAR	Jun 1878 : Sarmatian	CAN	Middlemore
8821	AMISON, Alfred	1894	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Aug 1907 : Tunisian	CAN	Unknown Catholic Group
25138	ANKCORN, Dennis George	1925	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jan 1937 : Oronsay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25139	ANKCORN, Emma Dorothy	1922	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Feb 1934 : Jervis Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
4426	ARCHER, Ida Mary	1909	ENG, WAR, Solihull	Jun 1926 : Montclare	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
18623	ASHBY, David Anthony	1900	ENG, WAR, Coles Hill	Sep 1911 : Lake Manitoba	CAN	Unknown Catholic Group
8883	ASTLEY, Albert ERNEST	1894	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Oct 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
11066	ASTLEY, Emma	1891	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1903 : Siberian	CAN	Middlemore
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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