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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.

ContributorsCreated : 2011-01-29 08:04:47 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-01-29 08:10:07 /

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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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