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Record #16389
Name :
: Norah CLEMENTS (1897 - )
  aka : Nora May Clements


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 26 Aug 1897

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Gloucestershire, Soundwell, Bristol

Portland Street
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialUnited States of America
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 23 Jun 1912
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Tunisian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesParents: Thomas Clements and Sarah Ann Williams, married 1882 in Gloucestershire, England. Siblings: Lily Clements, born 1886; Thomas, born 1887; Rosina born 1891; Annie Elizabeth born 1892; Henry born 1892; Sarah Ann born 1896; and Charlotte, born 1895.

WESTERN DAILY PRESS 22/2/1903 CHARGE OF CHILD NEGLECT

"Thomas Clements who had previously been before the bench answered to a charge of neglecting his children in such a way as to cause them unnecessary suffering. Mr. Watson who prosecuted on behalf of the S.P.C.C. stated that when the officer of the association called at the Defendant's house at Soundwell the children were discovered in a very neglected condition. At Xmas the officer had 2 of the children taken to an entertainment arranged under the auspices of the League of Pity and they were so poorly clad that clothing was provided for them. The father had been warned. When the inspector visited the house on the 17th January and again on the 6th Feb he found the house in a very wretched state. The man was drunken and so improvident that when one of the children died, a subscription was raised in order to pay for its funeral. The inspector visited the house as recently as Wednesday last and he found the children in a shocking condition. John William Taylor an officer of the SPCC gave details of his several visits to the Defendant's house. On the 17th instant when he called he found 2 of the children in a most filthy condition. Their clothing was in rags and they had scarcely any boots on. There was no food in the house and no fire and the bedding was very foul. Dr. James Young deposed to visiting the house on the 18th past. The children were in a very filthy state. One of them Nora had some bad burns on the back of her right hand that must have been very painful. The only remedy resorted to appeared to be some old rags tied around her hand. Accused who pleased that he had no wife and not much work was sentenced to 2 months hard labour."

SAT 5TH SEPT 1903 WESTERN DAILY PRESS
BRISTOL POLICE COURT BEFORE MAJOR RUMSKY AND MR EDWARD PARSONS

A BEGGING PETITION

Tom Clements, age 40, and Alfred Hodgetts, age 29, brothers in law living at Staple Hill, Bristol, were charged with begging. P. C. Wood said he saw Clements going into shops at Eastville with a petition which found to be in the following terms:

"Friends help me send two of my children to Dr. Barnardos Homes, as I have to get together 10 shillings for train fare. I shall be very grateful for any little help you may give me, Thomas Clements."

There were several initials on the sheet and a friend figured frequently for 5 pence and 3 pence. Hodgetts remained outside in the street. The constable added that he found on inquiry that 2 of Clements children were taken to Dr. Barnardos Homes on Tuesday and when the agent called the prisoner had to be fetched from a public house. he had 8 shillings towards the expenses and the balance was paid by a lady. Supt Wookey said Hodgetts had been charged with this kind of thing before. He had been about begging for years past when the weather was wet and was a perfect pest to the neighbourhood.

Clements was sent to gaol for 2 months and Hodgetts for 10 weeks.

After imprisonment, Thomas remarried in 1905 to a Sarah Vaughn and lived in Pontypridd, South Wales. He was a coalminer. He took two of his sons with him, Thomas and Henry.

In 1912, Norah Clements, 14, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 153 Barnardo girls en route to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

On May 13, 1916, at Berlin, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Nora May Clement, 21, born in Bristol, England, to John Clement and Sarah Williams; and William Henry Dawe, 27, granite engraver, born in Devonshire, England, to John Dawe and Sarah Buttle.

Two children were born of this marriage: Gordon W. Dawes, born March 5, 1917, at Ontario, Canada, died December 18, 2008, at Castro Valley, Alameda, California, USA; and Cyril Robert Dawes, born 1921 in Indiana, USA, died 1936 in a automobile/train accident in Mooresville, Morgan, Indiana, USA. 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-07-06 10:45:31 / From original database

Last Updated : 2015-10-05 16:34:59 /

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16389 CLEMENTS, Norah1897ENG, GLS, Soundwell, Bristol Jun 1912 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos sutlyn