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Record #5488

Name :: : Lily Ethel CROCKFORD (1891 - 1983)
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Date of Birth: : 20 May 1891
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 5 Jan 1983 Notes : Natural

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

Surrey Square

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Middlesex, London

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 25 Jul 1902
Country: : Canada
Ship: : New England
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesA birth registration was found for Lily Ethel Crockford: Year of Registration: 1891; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: St Saviour Southwark; County: London, Surrey; Volume: 1d; Page: 160.

Lily was born on May 20, 1891 to Henry M. Crockford and Jane (or Joan) Jeffery, Surrey Square, London, England. Mabel was born on October 5, 1892 and Violet was born on April 20,1897. Nothing is known of the period from the births till their abandonment in 1899 except as their father had stated, they had been in Liverpool prior to January 1899. The sisters came under the care of one of the agencies, Annie Macpherson.

Lily, Mabel and Violet Crockford were admitted June 14, 1899, upon the application of Mrs. Price, the landlady of 11a Belvedere Road. Mrs. Price stated that their father, Harry Crockford, had deserted them on June 13, 1899, and that his wife (stepmother to the children) went away the previous day. Their father was an upholsterer and said in a letter that he was going to sea. He took the rooms (furnished) at Belvedere Road in January, 1899, and stated that he had just come from Liverpool (R.O. Report 5603). The Board on June 21, 1899, directed that a warrant be applied for against the father.

Lily, Mabel and Violet Crockford were discharged to the Lambeth Union Schools on June 16, 1899.

Lily Crockford was discharged to Barnardo's Home on May 28, 1902.

Mabel was sent to Miss MacPherson's Home for emigration on August 24, 1904.

On May 28, 1902, Lily was transferred to Bernardo?s, the best known of the agencies involved with the sending of children to Canada. From May 1902 TO July 17, 1902, lily resided at the Girls Village Home, Forget Me Not Cottage, operated by the Bernardo?s.

The next stage of her journey began on July 12, 1902. On that day as per Alfred B. Owen in an issue of ?ups and Downs?(the newsletter of the Bernardo?s in Canada), the following event was described.

?On the 12th of July the entire party paraded in front of H.R.H. Princess Henry of Battenburg, Lord Brassey, the President of the Institution and many other distinguished personages.? The 397 children were booked to leave on the SS New England and sailed on July 17, 1902 from Liverpool. The ship arrived in Boston on July 25,1902. There was a CPR train waiting to take them to Montreal. From Montreal, along with 110 other girls, Lily left for the Hazelbrae home in Peterborough, ON.

In 1902, Lily Crockford, 10, arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in a large group of 397 Barnardo children en route to Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

These are the residences where Lily resided at while in Canada:

1) O. R. Stacey, Fleetwood. Store & Postmaster
August 8, 1902 to October 31, 1903

2) Recalled to Hazelbrae
October 31, 1903 to November 11, 1903

3) W. J. Moorhead, Elin P.O., Farm.
November 11, 1903 to September 28, 1906

4) Annie McClellan, Farm
September 28, 1906 to November 1909

4) Joined her sister Mabel at Parkhill, ON
November 1909

A family story related that Lily was influential in bringing her two sisters Violet and Mabel here to Canada.

On June 16, 1911, Lily married Daniel Henry Wood, a fireman with Canadian Pacific Railway and also an immigrant from London England, with her sister Mabel as her witness.

Daniel Henry and Lily Ethel Crockford Wood had only 2 children: Kathlene Ethel Wood; and Elsie Wood.

Descendants followed: By their two daughters (One deceased), 5 grandchildren (Two deceased), 9 great grandchildren and 3 great- great grandchildren with another great ?great grandchild due in May 2010. The legacy continues.

Lily did not talk about her childhood in England and said very little about her childhood in Canada. I can only make a guess that it was a part of her journey that she did not want to remember. It was only after her death, when we began to put her story together, that we realized what her journey had been and how she came to Canada.

ContributorsCreated : 2009-03-08 12:44:00 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-10-04 10:28:14 /

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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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