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Record #15926
Name :
: William SUTTON (1912 - 1930)


Father
:
Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 23 May 1912

Marriage (1)
:
Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: Jun 1930   Notes : Suicide by Self-Inflicted Gunshot to Chest
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Dufferin, Orangeville
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 15 Apr 1923
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Melita

Placement Family
: Armstrong
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Barnardos
NotesIn 1923, William Sutton, 10, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of Barnardo children (132 boys and 12 girls) en route to Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Toronto Star
Monday, June 23, 1930

DISCOVER NO MOTIVE IN FARM LAD'S DEATH

Barnardo Boy Took Own Life--At Times Seemed Melancholy

Special to the Star

Orangeville, June 23.--William Sutton, 18-year-old Barnardo boy, who was found dead in the bush of his former employer yesterday will be buried in the little cemetery of Rosemount not far from the spot where his body was discovered.

With him he will carry the secret of his suicide, for until to-day provincial police have not been able to find any motive. Tall, strong and powerful of build he was a willing and earnest worker. Oswald Armstrong of Mono township, his employer, is a successful farme,r and was pleased with the way the youth was making his start in Canada. There is only one thing he ever noticed wrong with the boy, that he was subject to fits of melancholia. "He was morose," the farmer told Constable Harry Butler yesterday.

A week ago William disappeared and a search was instituted. The boy's body was found with a gun beside it. Coroner W. J. McLean decided an inquest was not necessary.

Barnardo officials told the Star to-day that the boy had been visited by inspectors of that organization from time to time, "and that apparently he was getting on all right." As to the motive which prompted the untimely death they declared they are mystified and have sent a man to investigate.

Possibly on June 12, 1930, William Sutton, 18, born in England, farm labourer, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound through his left chest--apparently through his heart. He had been missing about 10 days. Death had been instantaneous. He is buried in Alliston Union Cemetery. 
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3007 ABBEY, Bertha1890ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees Jul 1904 : Southwark CAN Barnardos  
3006 ABBEY, John1887ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees Oct 1904 : Southwark CAN Barnardos  
3161 ABBEY, Thomas1892ENG, DUR, Stockton on Tees Oct 1904 : Southwark CAN Barnardos  
3020 ABBOT, Alice1877ENG, MDX, Islington Oct 1893 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
3047 ABBOT, William1878ENG,     Apr 1895 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
3019 ABBOTT, Alfred1869ENG,     Aug 1887 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
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3055 ABBOTT, Douglas Groves1910ENG, HAM, Hartley Wintney Apr 1924 : Montclare CAN Barnardos  
3858 ABBOTT, Emily Jane1886ENG, YKS, Guisborough Jul 1903 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
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3049 ABBOTT, Penelope1901ENG, KEN, Sidcup Jun 1912 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
5046 ABBS, Bertie Cecil John1914ENG, LND, St. Pancras Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond CAN Barnardos  
3061 ABDALE, John George1873ENG, NBL, Newcastle Upon Tyne Mar 1891 : Norwegian CAN Barnardos  
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3065 ABEL, Florence1902ENG, ESS, West Ham Aug 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
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3069 ABEL, George1897ENG,     Mar 1907 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
3071 ABEL, John1886ENG,     Jun 1897 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
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