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Record #16127
Name :
: George Alfred GILDERSON (1872 - )


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Date of Birth
: 19 Feb 1872

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Essex, Leyton
Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 7 Apr 1890
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Parisian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesA birth registration was found for George Alfred Gilderson: Date: Jan-Feb-Mar 1872; District: Romford; County: Essex; Volume: 4a; Page: 164. Parents: George Gilderson and Mary Williams, married 1867, Shoreditch, London, England.

A death registration was found for George Gilderson: Date: Jul-Aug-Sep 1877; Age: 34; District: West Ham; County: Essex; Volume: 4a; Page: 57

In 1890, George A. Gilderson, 18, arrived at Portland, Maine, USA, in a group of 113 Barnardo children who disembarked at Portland. More children in the same party disembarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

George is mentioned in the August 1895 edition of the Barnardo's magazine Ups and Downs:

If every boy will only nail his colors to the mast as firmly as George Gilderson has done in his letter that Prejudice--we spell it with a capital P--will soon be a thing of the past. As for the "home sickness"--may the time never come when George or any other boy ceases to have at times a little touch of it. It is not an unhealthy sign; on the contrary, the boy or man whose heart does not throb occasionally with a strange yearning for old friends and old associations, whose influence has been beneficial to him, is deficient in one of the finest qualities of human nature. Home sickness, when not allowed the mastery, does not indicate a discontented mind. It betokens a nature keen to appreciate, and that appreciation will extend, and be as faithful, to present friends and surroundings as it has been to those of earlier days.

George Alfred Gilderson, residing at 1617 Howe Street, Racine, Wisconsin, was naturalized as a United States citizen on September 30, 1914, at Portage County, Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

On June 9, 1930, George A. Gilderson, 57, shoe maker, crossed into Canada through the port of Sarnia, Ontario. He declared that he was born in London, England; that he was a citizen of the United States, residing in Wisconsin; that he had previously resided in Canada between 1890-1902, in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada; that he was Protestant; that he intended to work on a fruit farm in Canada; that he was destined to Mr. Miner, Strathroy, Ontario, Canada; and that his contact in the USA was his friend, Rev. E. Leonard, Racine, Wisconsin. 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-03-20 06:16:06 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-06-13 15:54:31 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
4131 DULLEGE, Ellen1874ENG, ESS, Leyton May 1885 : Sardinian CAN MacPherson Homes  
16127 GILDERSON, George Alfred1872ENG, ESS, Leyton Apr 1890 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
8610 SALMON, Arthur John1897ENG, ESS, Leyton Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
3647 STAYTON, Albert Edward1899ENG, ESS, Leyton Apr 1910 : Empress of Ireland CAN Fegan Homes for Boys