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Name :: : Edith CHERRYHOLME
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

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Date of Arrival: : 9 Mar 1911
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Sicilian
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Agency: : Barnardos

NotesWritten by her Great Niece C. Bonnie Fowler

The saga of the British Home Children is truly a sad one. I've written before about my three grandparents who were all British Home Children, having come to Cananda in 1911 and 1912. Until last week, as far as I knew, the first Cherryholme actually born in Canada was my father's sister, my Aunt Jeannette, who arrived in 1920.? Well, wasn't I in for a surprise. Last week, I received notice from Ancestry.com that the Ontario Birth records had been updated to include the year 1913 (they add a year each year as the information is released to the public domain).As is my habit, every time I become aware of new records, I plug my family name into the search engine. You just never know what might turn up. I accessed the database and typed in my family name, expecting that none would appear since my Aunt Jeannette's arrival should be the earliest Cherryholme birth in Canada and 1920 birth records are not yet available to the public. (Although the Drouin records are on line and they provide baptismal records as recent as 1967 -- go figure!) .Ooops. What's this?

There was a Kenneth Watson Cherryholme born on 9 February 1913 in York (Toronto) to a single parent named Edith Cherryholme. Hold the phone! Edith was my grandfather's 1st cousin who also came to Canada as a British Home Child (she was a Barnardo child) in 1911. A few years back, I had come across her record and tracked her down to having gone to the United States in 1916. She married in 1917, had two sons, and died in 1987. I've exchanged numerous e-mails with her granddaughter who was delighted to receive my help with information about the Home Child scheme in Canada. I also sent her a copy of the ship's manifest listing her grandmother as a passenger on her trip to Canada.As for Edith's having come to Canada, I have no idea if my grandfather ever knew that she was here. We certainly never heard tell of her. I know that as a child he must have known her very well though. Their parents were pretty tight over in Yorkshire (their fathers were brothers). The birth and marriage records of both family members consistently intertwined; and the cousins in England had witnessed each other's marriages.

Back to the child that was born to Edith.I now was intrigued to know what had happened to said child. Edith's granddaughter had never mentioned Kenneth. Did she even know about him? The immigration records of Edith's travels between Canada and the USA did not appear to include the child. Obviously, he must have died, or he was adopted out. But I had to know where this child ended up. A search of the Ontario Death Registry for Cherryholme deaths still only rendered the names of the people who were already in my tree. Internet search engines are wonderfully versatilie and provide a benefit that would never be achievable by manual searching. I asked the system to give me all the deaths for any child with given names Kenneth Watson born in 1913. Up comes a record for a child named Kenneth Watson Hoag who had died as a result of gastroenteritis, aged 5 1/2 months, in July 1913.Well, well, well. Could this be him? But what's up with HOAG as a surname I wonder?

On closer scrutiny of the record, I notice the address for the event is 624 St. Clarens Avenue, York.Yeh, that's the same address that Edith Cherryholme, a maid, lived at when her son was born.Hhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.I can't explain the change of surname (unless the child was officially adopted) but it's more likely that Edith was employed by the Hoag family and somehow it was them, rather than her, who reported the child's death. In any event, about an hour after I discovered the earliest birth of a Cherryholme child in Canada, I also discovered the earliest death of a Cherryholme in Canada.

Surname: CHERRYHOLME
Given Name: Edith
Age: 15
Sex: F
Ship: Sicilian
Year of Arrival: 1911
Departure Port: Glasgow
Departure Date: 1911-02-24
Arrival Port: Halifax
Arrival Date: 1911-03-09
Party: Barnardo Homes
Destination: Peterborough, Ontario
Comments: Party of Girls
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Reference: RG 76 C1b
Microfilm: T-4738
Type of Record: Passenger Lists

ContributorsCreated : 2011-12-27 12:03:09 / From original database

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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

Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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