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Record #4236

Name :: : Ada Sophia BARKER (1878 - 1896)
aka : Sophia Ada Barker, Sarah
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Mother: :

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Date of Birth: : 1878
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 20 Jan 1896 Notes : Pleural Pneumonia

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Middlesex, London

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

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 22 Oct 1892
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Sardinian
Placement Family: :

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Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesA birth registration was found for Ada Sophia Barker: Year of Registration: 1878; Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar; District: Poplar (To 1965); County: Greater London, London, Middlesex; Volume: 1c; Page: 655.

Barnardos Ups & Downs Magazine, A Monthly Journal published under the auspices of Dr Barnardo's
Homes (Toronto, March 1, 1896, Vol. 1, No. 8.):

"BARKER Ada, age 18, October 1892 party, died at Hastings on January 20. She had been in the employ of Mr and Mrs Adam Humphries since coming to Canada, and is buried at Little Lake Cemetery. Cause: pneumonia. "Strange to say, just 2 days before Ada passed away, the aged grandfather, in the home where she was living, had suddenly met his death through an accident in the same house, so there was, indeed, a sad household during those days."

Ada Barker, shown as Sarah Ada Barker on her death certificate, passed away on January 20, 1896, of pleural pneumonia, 2 weeks duration. She was employed as a domestic servant at the time. She had been a part of Hazlebrae-Barnardo Home, Peterborough Ontario, Canada.

Ada Barker is buried in Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, Canada in Grave #2, Lot 5, Range 17 North, Section D. She is buried along with 46 other children who passed away at Hazlebrae House.

Published in the March 1896 edition of the Ups and Downs
Ada Barker, aged 18, whose likeness we here give, and who came out in October '92, passed away to her eternal rest on Monday January 20th. Ada was to all appearance a particularly healthy, strong looking girl, but she seems to have taken cold, and in a short time developed pneumonia, which was the cause of her death. It is with truly thankful hearts we look back on Ada's life, during the few years she was in Canada. She was a good girl, faithful and valued in her work, and loved in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Humphries of Hastings, with whom she lived from her first entering into service in Canada till the day of her death. More then that we have every reason to trust that Ada had committed the keeping of her soul to her blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and that she has now had "an inheritance among all them which are sanctified".

We feel deeply the kindness and interest of the Rev. D. A. Thomson, Presbyterian minister at Hastings, whose Church our young friend attended, and also of Mr. Adam Humphries her master, who was as one mourning for his own child, both these two gentlemen came from Hastings to Peterborough to attend the funeral, for all that was mortal of Ada had been brought home to Peterborough to be laid to rest in Little Lake Cemetery. Mr. Thomson conducted an impressive and hallowed funeral service at Hazel Brae amongst our assembled children, and also a short one at the grave. Strange to say, just two days before Ada passed away the aged grandfather in the home where she was living,had suddenly met with death through an accident in the same house, so that there was, indeed, a sad household during those days.

Pondering over these events, these words came from the lips of Mr. Humphries little child: "Well," she said, "Grandpa's gone to heaven, and Ada has gone to heaven,perhaps they are talking to each other" and we, thinking over her words fell it is but little we know of what those are doing who have passed on before, but one or two things we do know, first, that "in His presence is fullness of joy" and then, that "there the weary are at rest."

To all, even to the young and healthy, there is once more the call. "Be ye therefore ready, for at such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh".

ContributorsCreated : 2008-09-21 18:08:06 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-03-03 20:22:27 /

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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
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