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Record #2730

Name :: : Elizabeth GRIFFIN (1888 - 1958)
aka : Marjorie/Margery Griffin
Father: :
Mother: :

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Date of Birth: : 23 Jun 1888
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 5 Sep 1958

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Yorkshire, Middlesbrough

26 Morris Street, North Ormesby

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialUnited States of America, Michigan, Detroit

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : May 1901
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Tunisian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Catholic Emigration Society

NotesElizabeth was the eldest daughter of Edward Griffin and Isabella Ward/King b in 1888 in Middlesbrough. When she was 5 and her brother 2, their mother died from a childbirth related illness. The baby that she had given birth to was named Ellen Isabella but sadly she too died at the age of 10 months, as the informant was her grandmother, I believe the children were being cared for by relatives. In 1898 their father remarried to Ellen Miles who had recently born a son who he is believed to have fathered. In January 1900 Edward Griffin died from pneumionia leaving a heavily pregnant widow and two children Elizabeth and her brother Dennis. Ellen kept the two children until March 23 when she placed them in the Workhouse Union Childrens Home. Elizabeth was briefly discharged on May 23 to her stepmother but returned to the home on May 30 by her grandmother. A note had been made by her discharge entry 'ran away'. On June 15 she was transferred along with several other Catholic girls to Nazareth House, a catholic orphanage for girls. She remained there until May 1st 1901 when she joined a party of catholic children on the SS Tunisian bound for Ottawa, Canada. She and her brother never saw each other again. He remained in the Union home until November 1900 when my great great gran (his aunt) took him from the orphanage, and brought him up along with his cousins as one of her own.

Elizabeth was placed with several families in Canada including the Halpin family and the Heffernan family of Arthur, Wellington. In 1908 she married Charles Russell Hetherington, she is believed to have had at least 3 children possibly by him. At some point they separated, their eldest daughter was brought up by her paternal grandparents. While Elizabeth appears to have had the two youngest with her in Toronto, her middle child died in Toronto in 1914 shortly after her death, the 3rd child, a son was born,

Her 1st husband remarried in 1915, according to his WW1 records Elizabeth was living in Toronto in 1915 but it is known she went to Detroit, Michigan with her son between 1915 and 1920 where she got married again to a Philip Scherer

ContributorsCreated : 2009-01-11 19:21:12 / From original database

Last Updated : 2015-04-19 08:45:48 /

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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
3858	ABBOTT, Emily Jane	1886	ENG, YKS, Guisborough	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3046	ABBOTT, Lily	1873	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Sep 1883 : Parisian	CAN	Maria Rye
3086	ABRAHAM, Dinah	1889	ENG, YKS, Hull	Jul 1897 : State of California	CAN	Waifs & Strays
3089	ABRAHAMS, Milly Esther	1889	ENG, YKS, Hull	Jul 1897 : State of California	CAN	Waifs & Strays
5397	ADAMSON, Doris	1907	ENG, YKS, Hull	Mar 1915 : Scandinavian	CAN	Barnardos
6852	AGGAS, Clara	1891	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
6851	AGGAS, Ethel	1889	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
6780	AGGAS, Herbert	1895	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Apr 1905 : Kensington	CAN	Barnardos
6854	AGGAS, John William	1893	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Apr 1905 : Kensington	CAN	Barnardos
10434	ALLENBY, Edward	1908	ENG, YKS, Kirkbymoorside	Aug 1924 : Doric	CAN	National Childrens Home
3463	ALLINSON, Herbert Arthur	1895	ENG, YKS, Harwood Dale	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3462	ALLINSON, Lancelot	1892	ENG, YKS, Harwood Dale	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos	suffolkmawther
4456	ANDERSON, Ethel Rows	1884	ENG, YKS, Normanby	Aug 1890 : Parisian	CAN	Maria Rye
3807	ANDREWS, Vernard Reginald	1897	ENG, YKS, Kingston Upon Hull	Mar 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
13294	ANGUS, Agnes Crawford	1892	ENG, YKS, Ecclesall Bierlow	Jul 1905 : Corinthian	CAN	Quarriers
13293	ANGUS, Jennie Anderson	1893	ENG, YKS, Ecclesall Bierlow	Jul 1905 : Corinthian	CAN	Quarriers
5278	ARDINGTON, Thomas	1914	ENG, YKS, Driffield	Mar 1930 : Baltic	CAN	Waifs & Strays
8614	ARGENT, Joseph	1892	ENG, YKS, Sheffield	Mar 1909 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home	Lyn 8
23425	ARUNDEL, Eleanor Chapman	1892	ENG, YKS, Swinton, near Rotherham	Jun 1907 : Tunisian	CAN	Mrs. Mooney\'s
23426	ARUNDEL, Elsie Mary	1895	ENG, YKS, Doncaster	Jun 1907 : Tunisian	CAN	Mrs. Mooney\'s
5754	ASHBURNE, Alfred	1892	ENG, YKS, Dewsbury	May 1907 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
23815	ASHER, Thomas	1889	ENG, YKS, Sheffield	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
15686	ASHFORD, Alice Carter	1908	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Sep 1924 : Melita	CAN	Barnardos
5361	ATKINSON, Thos	1910	ENG, YKS, Keighley	Aug 1925 : Montnairn	CAN	National Childrens Home
5049	BAKER, David	1914	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Barnardos
4996	BARNER, John	1916	ENG, YKS, York	Sep 1930 : Duchess of Bedford	CAN	Barnardos
4733	BARRACLOUGH, Dorothy D.	1918	ENG, YKS, Leeds	1932 : - Unknown -	AUS	Barnardos
4732	BARRACLOUGH, George Edward	1920	ENG, YKS, Scarborough	Jul 1930 : Balranald	AUS	Barnardos
4103	BARRETT, Maud	1888	ENG, YKS, Skipton	Aug 1901 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
12080	BATTERS, Thomas Edward	1917	ENG, YKS, Halifax	May 1928 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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