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Record #4639
Name :
: John Leonard ALLDRIDGE (1884 - 1972)
  aka : John Leonard Alldridge Wa


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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 18 Aug 1884

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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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
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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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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3011 ABBOTT, Frederick1896ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1906 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
3012 ABBOTT, George1893ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1906 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
3157 ACTON, Alice1909ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jul 1923 : Montcalm CAN Catholic Emigration Society  
3759 ADDERLEY, David Gerard1897ENG, WAR, Birmingham May 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
3758 ADDERLEY, Harry1899ENG, WAR, Birmingham May 1908 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
8128 ADIE, Dorothy May1914ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jul 1928 : Newfoundland CAN Middlemore  
8129 AGER, Arthur Charles1915ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jul 1928 : Newfoundland CAN Middlemore  
4645 ALLDRIDGE, Arthur1897ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1904 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
4640 ALLDRIDGE, Francis1889ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1896 : Corean CAN Middlemore  
4644 ALLDRIDGE, Harry1892ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1904 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
4639 ALLDRIDGE, John Leonard1884ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1896 : Corean CAN Middlemore  
4641 ALLDRIDGE, Ruth Rebecca1890ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1896 : Corean CAN Middlemore  
4643 ALLDRIDGE, Violet1893ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1904 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
4642 ALLDRIDGE, William Henry1886ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1896 : Corean CAN Middlemore  
3860 ALLEN, Florence Elizabeth1891ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1902 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
10954 ALLPORT, Daisy Dot1879ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1890 : Sardinian CAN Maria Rye  
6926 ALLSUPP, John1875ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1878 : Sarmatian CAN Middlemore  
8821 AMISON, Alfred1894ENG, WAR, Birmingham Aug 1907 : Tunisian CAN Unknown Catholic Group  
25138 ANKCORN, Dennis George1925ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jan 1937 : Oronsay AUS Fairbridge Homes  
8883 ASTLEY, Albert ERNEST1894ENG, WAR, Birmingham Oct 1903 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
11066 ASTLEY, Emma1891ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1903 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
3592 ASTLEY, May1899ENG, WAR, Birmingham Mar 1911 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
11065 ASTLEY, Rosina1887ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1903 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
22012 ASTON, ROLAND THOMAS1895ENG, WAR, Birmingham Oct 1902 : Colonian CAN Barnardos  
5311 ATKINS, Fred1914ENG, WAR, Birmingham Aug 1930 : Duchess of York CAN British Immigration and Colonisation Association  
9827 ATKINS, Selina1880ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1890 : Circassian CAN Middlemore  
2880 AUSTIN, Frederick George1883ENG, WAR, Aston, Birmingham Jun 1894 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
2881 AUSTIN, James1879ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1894 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
17314 BAGGOTT, Harold Cecil1893ENG, WAR, Birmingham Oct 1902 : Colonian CAN Barnardos  
17316 BAGGOTT, Horace Edgar1895ENG, WAR, Birmingham Oct 1902 : Colonian CAN Barnardos  
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