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Record #12817

Name :: : Arthur Burns SCULTHORPE (1890 - 1958)
aka : Sculthorp; Salthorp; Salt
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 21 Feb 1890
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 24 Dec 1958 Notes : Heart Attack

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Yorkshire, Leeds

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Enderby

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : Mar 1901
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Tunisian
Placement Family: : Clarke; Preston; Osbourne

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): : Leeds Union Infirmary
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesArthur Burns Sculthorp died surrounded by his family on December 24, 1958 in Enderby BC. He was in his 69th year. Arthur had come to Canada on his own as a child immigrant through the Barnardo Society out of London England, arriving in Canada in March 1901, a month past his 11th birthday. Arthur was typical of children deported to Canada from Britain in that he had living parents and a sister, but due to the laws of the time his unwed mother, while seen to be of good character, was deemed unsuitable to raise him with his older sister. After removal from his abusive father's home at the age of 2.5 years, Arthur spent nearly 9 years in various state sponsored work houses and boarding out placements. At age 11 he was sent to Canada as an indentured servant to a farm near Baldur, Manitoba. His first placement was abusive (the conclusion of the magistrate) and the 2nd, a neighbouring farmer seemingly treated him well and as one of the family. His 3rd placement was also poor upon which he returned to the home of his 2nd placement Solomon Preston.

Arthur had his named changed from Arthur Burns Sculthorpe to John Burns (when he was first taken into care with NSPCC at age 2.5): then back to Arthur Sculthorpe when entering Barnardos age 6 and then to Arthur Salthorpe (age 11) when he was deported by Barnardos to Canada in 1901. It is my opinion that the name changes were to ensure that family who were looking for him had little chance of locating the boy over the 9 years he spent in care in and around London, under a false identity and the name change on the even of deportation was ensure his whereabouts were untraceable once he was safely on the boat to Canada. On the census records in Manitoba his name was further mangled into Salthrop. Arthur eventually settled on Sculthorp as an adult.

Little is known of his young adult years after leaving the Barnardo program at age 19 except that Arthur returned to Britain and renewed contact with his mother, who had married. His only sister, Eleanor had died at 15 years, 2 years after he arrived in Canada. By 1913 Arthur had returned to Canada, bringing with him his mother and the age of 23 he married Mary Fleming Gilchrist in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Family lore has it that they met while he was back in Britain, she being a native of Glasgow. Their first child, a son, Arthur was born the next year. The young family settled in Medicine Hat and Arthur senior (aka AB) was known to have been employed by the city as a dog catcher and that he was a talented musician (playing many of the brass instruments) who joined the city band. On August 26th 1916, Arthur enlisted in the Canadian Army with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and spent the remainder of the war in the trenches of France.

After the war Arthur and Mary produced another child, Isabell in 1920 and then Robert in 1926. Mary and baby Thomas died in childbed in May 1930 and 10 year old Isabell and Rob were sent to live with family in Pennsylvania, a brother and sister of Mary. AB and Art left Medicine Hat and moved to the northern bush near Edson, Alberta. Upon their return to Canada in 1933, Isy and Rob joined their older brother and father and lived and worked as trappers, until the mid-1940's. AB served as a bridge guard in the Edson area during the war, being too old and having been gassed during the Great War to qualify for overseas service. In the late 1940's AB remarried and that union produced a 2nd daughter Faye. By the late 1950's Isabell had 6 children and the extended family had settled in the Shuswap area of British Columbia's interior. AB kept a small holding in the Enderby area that his grandchildren remember fondly and upon his death in 1958 AB was living with his daughter Isy and her family.

ContributorsCreated : 2010-09-05 08:19:50 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-05-18 09:14:33 /

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3004	AARON, Alfred Robert	1899	ENG, LAN, West Derby, Liverpool	Mar 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3003	AARON, John Richard	1895	ENG, LAN, West Derby, Liverpool	Mar 1911 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3007	ABBEY, Bertha	1890	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Jul 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3006	ABBEY, John	1887	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Oct 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3161	ABBEY, Thomas	1892	ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees	Oct 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3020	ABBOT, Alice	1877	ENG, MDX, Islington	Oct 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3047	ABBOT, William	1878	ENG,	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
3019	ABBOTT, Alfred	1869	ENG,	Aug 1887 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
23669	ABBOTT, Alice	1877	ENG,	Oct 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3022	ABBOTT, Bertie	1894	ENG, SFK, Ipswich	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Barnardos	sharonmx5 , patty_in_ms
3025	ABBOTT, David Henry	1891	ENG, ESS, Grays	Mar 1901 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3055	ABBOTT, Douglas Groves	1910	ENG, HAM, Hartley Wintney	Apr 1924 : Montclare	CAN	Barnardos
3858	ABBOTT, Emily Jane	1886	ENG, YKS, Guisborough	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
8354	ABBOTT, Frederick Albert Prosper	1885	ENG, LND, Homerton	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
3036	ABBOTT, George	1894	ENG, MDX, London	Jul 1904 : Southwark	CAN	Barnardos
3038	ABBOTT, Herman Henry	1882	ENG, MDX, Hoxton, London	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
10624	ABBOTT, John	1913	ENG,	Apr 1929 : Duchess of York	CAN	Barnardos
3045	ABBOTT, Leslie	1883	ENG,	Mar 1893 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
3060	ABBOTT, Lilian	1903	ENG,	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3026	ABBOTT, Mary	1888	ENG, ESS, Maldon	Oct 1902 : Colonian	CAN	Barnardos
3049	ABBOTT, Penelope	1901	ENG, KEN, Sidcup	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
5046	ABBS, Bertie Cecil John	1914	ENG, LND, St. Pancras	Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Barnardos
3061	ABDALE, John George	1873	ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne	Mar 1891 : Norwegian	CAN	Barnardos
3063	ABEL, Albert Edward G.	1901	ENG, ESS, West Ham	Aug 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3066	ABEL, Charles	1891	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3065	ABEL, Florence	1902	ENG, ESS, West Ham	Aug 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3067	ABEL, Frederick	1889	ENG,	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
3068	ABEL, George	1887	ENG,	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3069	ABEL, George	1897	ENG,	Mar 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3071	ABEL, John	1886	ENG,	Jun 1897 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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