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Record #13399
Name :
: Charlotte ROBERTS (1885 - 1976)
  aka : Lottie


Father
:
Mother
:
BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 20 Feb 1885

Marriage (1)
:
Marriage (2)
:

Date of Death
: Jan 1976
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Hampshire, Portsmouth
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialUnited States of America, California, Glendale
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 17 Oct 1896
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Scotsman

Placement Family
:
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Barnardos
NotesAnnie and Lottie were born in Hampshire in 1883 and 1885 respectively. When Annie was born in Fareham her mother Eliza Ann was 36 and her father John 59 a widower. John was a dairyman by trade, and the couple had married in 1879.

By the time Lottie joined the family their father was keeping a lodging house at 5 Bateman?s Alley, Portsea. Bateman?s Alley doesn?t appear on the current maps of the area.

The family?s fortunes took a turn for the worse when John died in the summer of 1885 aged 61. Lottie was still a small baby and Annie not yet two.

Their mother, Eliza Ann remarried the following year, to a John Firth. It doesn?t seem as if this relationship worked out well. It appears that John Firth deserted the little family and the girls and their mother would soon be parted.

The 1891 census records show that Eliza is in Portsea Island Union Workhouse. She is a charwoman and is listed as being married.

At this time Annie and Lottie, now aged seven and five are with a foster mother, forty-nine year old spinster, Sarah Haines, who was a dressmaker, at 97 Portway, Warminster, Wiltshire. Surely being in a country market town must have been better for these little girls than living in the grim looking workhouse, though doubtless it would have been traumatic for them leaving their mother.

The next we hear of Annie and Lottie is in 1896 with a party of 180 Dr Barnardos boys and girls bound for Toronto, Canada as ?Home Children? as such child emigrants are now known. The children set sail from Liverpool of October 8th aboard the SS Scotsman and arrived 9 days later in Quebec. They would probably have travelled on to Toronto by train, a journey of about 500 miles.

We don?t know what happened to the girls for a number of years, though it is very likely that they were in domestic service and not so likely that they stayed together. We do know, though that they either kept in touch or made contact again with one another by the time they were in their 20s.

Meanwhile, a similar drama had developed back in the old country, for a young boy who had had an unfortunate start in life. Ivor Sydney Cuthbert Brooker was born to his unmarried mother in Reading in 1892. In 1906 when Ivor was almost 14 he, too, was sent out to Canada, to Toronto, designated as a ?farm child?. Ivor?s story forms another family biography.

When we next meet our girls its 1913 and they are sharing a celebration: Lottie is marrying our young seafarer, Ivor, who is now 21, and Annie is a witness to the proceedings. Ivor has left any farming days behind and has become a bookkeeper. We can only speculate how Lottie and Ivor met but could it be that Lottie was a housemaid on the farm to which Ivor was allocated and that they formed a bond from those days?

Annie met and married Alfred Green who was also born in England though as yet we have not been able to track down the date and place of their marriage. In any event young Vernon A(lfred?) was born to them on 1st November 1919, in Toronto. 
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Last Updated : 2011-01-29 08:10:07 /

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5935 CHAMP, Alice1873ENG,    , Portsmouth Jul 1881 : Sarmatian CAN Maria Rye  
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13604 GRAHAM, Amelia Alberta1877ENG, HAM, Portsmouth Apr 1887 : Circassian CAN Maria Rye  
13605 GRAHAM, Lavinia Ellen1882ENG, HAM, Portsmouth Apr 1887 : Circassian CAN Maria Rye  
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9010 MULCAHEY, Fred W1901ENG,    , Portsmouth Mar 1909 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
6776 NEEDLE, Beatrice1898ENG,    , Portsmouth Jul 1907 : Kensington CAN Barnardos  
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26772 NEWMAN, George Stephen1900ENG, HAM, Portsmouth Oct 1909 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos Robert Fletcher  
26770 NEWMAN, Nellie Laura1987ENG, HAM, Portsmouth Mar 1907 :  CAN Barnados  Robert Fletcher  
5849 PARFITT, Fannie1893ENG,    , Portsmouth Jul 1904 : Southwark CAN Barnardos  
10585 PEAKE, Emily M1902ENG, HAM, Portsmouth Jul 1914 : Corinthian CAN Barnardos  
8867 PHAROAH, Thomas C1897ENG,    , Portsmouth Mar 1907 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
5305 PHIPPS, Reginald1916ENG,    , Portsmouth Aug 1930 : Duchess of York CAN British Immigration and Colonisation Association  
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14972 RICHARDSON, Lilian1897ENG, HAM, Portsmouth May 1907 : Tunisian CAN Waifs & Strays  
14974 RICHARDSON, Theodora1900ENG, HAM, Portsmouth Mar 1914 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
13399 ROBERTS, Charlotte1885ENG, HAM, Portsmouth Oct 1896 : Scotsman CAN Barnardos  
23383 SAMS, Arthur David1898ENG, HAM, Portsmouth Mar 1913 : Canada CAN Rev. Dr. Stephenson  
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10276 STUBBINGTON, Rosina Kate1906ENG,    , Portsmouth Oct 1920 : Scandinavian CAN Barnardos  
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