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Record #16677
Name :
: Clarence MARTIN (1876 - 1897)


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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 1876

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 22 Mar 1897   Notes : Suicide by Hanging
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Lincolnshire, Lincoln
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Wentworth, Binbrook
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 7 Apr 1895
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Vancouver

Placement Family
: Freeman
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: National Childrens Home
NotesA birth registration was found for Clarence Martin: Date: Jul-Aug-Sep 1876; District: Lincoln; County: Lincolnshire; Volume: 7a; Page: 522. Parents: James Martin and Susanna Hoodless, married 1865, Caistor, Lincolnshire, England.

A death registration was found for Susannah Martin: Date: Oct-Nov-Dec 1884; Age: 44; District: Lincoln; County: Lincolnshire; Volume: 7a; Page: 324

A death registration was found for James Martin: Date: Jul-Aug-Sep 1887; Age: 48; District: Lincoln; County: Lincolnshire; Volume: 7a; Page: 325

In 1895, Clarence Martin, 18, arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in a group of children with the National Children's Home, accompanied by Rev. Dr. Stephenson and en route to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Hamilton Spectator, March 23, 1897

MARTIN - Clarence Martin, a fine-featured, intelligent-looking young Englishman, for the past two years employed by William Freeman of Binbrook as a farm hand, put an abrupt end to what gave every promise of being a happy and successful life by hanging himself yesterday afternoon. Martin was an orphan, coming to Canada some years ago in care of the Shaftsbury home management. About two years ago he hired out to Mr. Freeman, and has worked for him ever since. He was generally like by the country people who knew him, and was industrious and faithful in his work. A pernicious habit, fatal to his good health and mental balance and believed to have been the cause of his rash act. He was in his 21st year.

Yesterday afternoon young Martin was about the house up until 3:30 when Mrs. Freeman told him to go out and do the chores in the yard, and around the barn. Before he went out, Mrs. Freeman asked him what he intended doing this summer, and whether he intended staying on or going to work somewhere else. He replied that he would work in some other world or else in old England. This was the last thing he said to anyone, going right out into the barnyard. Mrs. Freeman did not think anything more of him until tea time, when he could not be found. Mr. Freeman came home and discovered that the chores had not been done. He started in to do them himself, and when climbing up into the hay mow was astonished to see the young fellow hanging from a rafter brace. He did not wait to make investigation beyond discovering that the body was stiff and cold, but hurried to Bartonville, there summoning Dr. Alway, who went out and cut the body down. Early this morning it was removed to Green?s private morgue on King Street East, and Coroner White notified. The doctors held a consultation this morning and decided that an inquest was not necessary. The funeral will be held to-morrow morning at ten o?clock from Green?s undertaking rooms.

The suicide seemed to have been carefully planned. A heavy rope was used, fastened to the brace in the rafters over the entrance to the loft. A slip noose was used in the rope, and putting it around his neck Martin stepped from the floor into the opening from the ground floor. Death was caused by strangulation.

Tuesday March 23, 1897
Toronto Star

A WAIF'S SUICIDE

Clarence Martin, a Farm Hand, Once Inmate of a Children's Home Hangs Himself Near Hamilton

Star Special. Hamilton, March 23.

The remains of Clarence Martin, aged 21, farm hand in the employ of Wm. Freeman, Binbrook township, were brought to the city this morning for interment.

Deceased, who wa formerly an inmate of Rev. Dr. Stephenson's Children's Home here committed suicide yesterday afternoon by hanging himself in a hayloft of his employer's barn.

The deed was dueto melancholy, the result of habits to which the young man was addicted. He had not relatives in Canada. 
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Last Updated : 2012-09-11 20:11:11 /

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8926 BOOTH, Dennis1916ENG,    , Lincoln Apr 1931 : Duchess of Richmond CAN Barnardos  
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