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Record #2684
Name :
: Alice Eleanor FROUD (1866 - 1934)


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Date of Birth
: 26 Jan 1866

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 30 Oct 1934   Notes : Myocardial Failure
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Surrey, Egham

Shrubs Hill
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Ontario, Oxford, Norwich
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 15 Jun 1874
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Sarmatian

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Agency
: Maria Rye
NotesA birth registration was found for Alice E. Froud: Year of Registration: 1866; Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar; District: Windsor; County: Berkshire, Surrey; Volume: 2c; Page: 429. Parents: Charles Froud and Mary Brooker, married June 4, 1848, at Christchurch, Virginia Water, Surrey, England.

Charles Froud, born 1798, had been married previously to Mary Finch. He died April, 1866, Shrubbs Hill, Sunningdale, BRK at age 68. His wife, Mary Brooker Froud also died in April, 1866, leaving 7 children: Mary Ann Froud; Lily Ann Froud; Elizabeth Emily Froud; Rose Ann Froud; Emily Fanny Froud; Emma Louisa Froud; and Alice Eleanor Froud.

Windsor Union Workhouse records dated April of 1874 reflect that Alice is an orphan and one of eleven children from the Windsor Union Workhouse scheduled to sail with the Marie Rye party aboard the Sarmatian in June of 1874.

In 1874, Alice Froud, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 70 Maria Rye children en route to Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada. Her sister, Emma Froud, arrived in 1871 with 75 children on the Nestorian.

Upon arrival in Ontario Alice was placed with a John Marshall and family who owned a 100 acre farm near Putnam, just east of London, Ontario. The farm was located at Concession II, lot 4, Township of North Dorchester, Middlesex County. (Windsor Union PRO MH12/345 (Stroud) Report from Miss Rye to Windsor Union 1876 - Alice Stroud. Age 8. Wages. Mr.John Marshall, Putnam, Middlesex. Still there, doing well, see letter and photo. 1878 Rye Report - #1060-10, stet, Co Middlesex.)

Their marriage record reflects: Ontario Marriage Registration # 5360 - 1886, Isaac Clifford, age 31, residence, Tilbury East Township, born Hamilton, widower and farmer. Parents Thomas Clifford and Elizabeth Clifford married Alice Froud, age 21, residence Tilbury East, born England, single. Parents William Froud and Margaret Froud. Witnesses: William Howe and Eliza Howe, both of Merlin. Marriage took place in Merlin, Raleigh Township, Kent County on 21 January 1886. Both were Methodists.(Isaac Middleton Clifford was born on 19 Mar 1850 in Putnamville, Ontario, Canada and had five children by a prior marriage to Mary Jane Pollard.)

Isaac Middleton and Alice Eleanor Froud Clifford had children: Charles Ernest Clifford (December 23, 1887 - December 27, 1964); Mary Alice Clifford (September 17, 1888 - December 25, 1981); William Middleton Clifford (March 17, 1890 - May 17, 1971); Marion Elizabeth (Bessie) Clifford (April 28, 1892 - December 4, 1918); Oliver Thomas Clifford (September 7, 1896 - 1966); Marshall Froud Clifford (May 17, 1900 - December 27, 1959); and Bernice Rose Clifford (1902-1902).

The following poem was written by Alice and appeared in the Norwich Gazette Newspaper.

"Composed by Mrs. Isaac Clifford, on reacting that her son, Will has listed in the 175 Battalion at Medicine Hat, Alberta on March 14th 1916.

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Ah! the mail man has come, and what did he bring?
A paper, is that all there is?
Then I will open it up, and see what's the news,
Whether Germans or Allies will win.

With what disappointment I opened it up.
When my eyes did quickly espy
A letter from Will lay there in the fold,
I had been looking for that some time.

With trembling hands I tore open the seal
And read til the tears dimmed my eyes,
Dear Mother, I've got a place that will last me a while
For I belong to the One-Seventy-Five.

No tongue but a mother's can ever explain
The feeling that over me spread,
That he donned the uniform Tuesday at eight
For overseas service it read.

My heart was filled with Oh! such an ache
As only a fond mother knows,
When she first gets sight of the boy that she loves
Dressed up in the soldier's clothes.

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But our boys in khaki are brave boys
Honourable, unselfish and true,
They go to fight with all their might,
For the flag of the red white and blue.

They have gone to fight for their country,
Their lives the give for their King
We mothers can only knit and pray
That the Allies may surely win,

For we're the mothers of our soldiers
How quickly they've grown into men
We know they must go, but we never know
That they'll come back again.

Then doff your hats to a soldier,
And cheer him on his way,
For what would it be, if the would not give
Their young hearts in the fray.

Dear Father, we pray Thee to guide them
We know that their way will be hard,
May they put on the breastplate of righteousness,
And gather their strength from the Lord."

Isaac Middleton Clifford died on 19 January 19, 1918 in LaSalette, Ontario, Canada. He died of hemiplegia (severe or complete loss of motor function on one side of the body); with the immediate cause being hypostatic pneumonia (pneumonia resulting from infection developing in the dependent portions of the lungs due to decreased ventilation of those areas, with resulting failure to drain bronchial secretions; occurs primarily in the aged or those debilitated by disease who lie in the same position for long periods.)

Alice Eleanor Froud Clifford died October 30, 1934, at Norwich, Ontario, Canada, at age 68. According to her death certificate, Alice had been previously treated for heart trouble prior to her death. Sometime on October 30, 1934, Alice had fallen from a chair. She was deceased before the ambulance arrived.

Alice was buried beside her husband Isaac in the Bookton Cemetery, Bookton, Windham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada. 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-01-11 19:21:12 / From original database

Last Updated : 2010-06-24 20:05:38 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
2684 FROUD, Alice Eleanor1866ENG, SRY, Egham Jun 1874 : Sarmatian CAN Maria Rye  
2685 FROUD, Emma Louisa1861ENG, SRY, Egham Nov 1871 : Nestorian CAN Maria Rye