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Record #16757

Name :: : Frederick William STEARN (1907 - 1986)
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 23 Oct 1907
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1986

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 29 Jun 1920
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Scotian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

Notesson of
Richard Stearn
1866 ?
Elizabeth Jeffs
1875 ?

Sibling of:

Richard George Edward Stearn
1900 ? 1970
John Frederick Stearn
1902 ? 1966
George Frederick Stearn
1903 ? 1903
Henry Thomas Stearn
1904 ? 1969
George Stearn
1906 ?
Alfred James Stearn
1909 ? 1985
Elizabeth Harriet Stearn
1912 ? 1978
Robert Victor Stearn
1916 ?
Florence A Stearn
1919 ?

From a Toronto newspaper:

The reunion of two brother who haven't seen each other in 60 years is an occasion for smothering hugs and the odd tear or two.

It might happen that way in story books, but Frederick Stearn and his brother Alfred have a whole life time to squeeze into two months - and its not going to be easy.

When Alfred finally arrived five hours late from London, England, Thursday night, neither his brother's granddaughter nor Frederick himself were really sure it was him. They furtively tried to match faces in the crowd with the phtographs clutched in their hands.

I was chasing old men around asking them if they were Alfred Stearn, says Denise Z---, Frederick's granddughter.

But Alfred had no trouble recogonizing his long lost brother. I cam up the stairs, looked over the rails and saw him. And I knew it was him.

The rainy ride back from Toronto International Airport was more like a banter of British music-hall jokes told in Alfred's rich Cockney accent than a nostalgic reunion. "If the weather had been a bit better" he quipped "I'd have gotten out of the plane and walked"

The two brothers were reluctant to speak of the past that they shared in a London orphanage shortly after the First World War.

Neither is sure what happened to their parents but "apparently my folk's couldn't look after us at the time so they put us in a home" says Frederick.

In 1920, a 13 year old Frederick answered the call of asventure in the new world and was shipped to Dr. Bernardo's home for boys in Toronto.

Alfred, who was 11 at the time, wrote to his brother for a few years until he moved. "And then I lost track of him for good.

In the meantime, the orphanage in England burned down and all the records were dystroyed. Any hope that Alfred or Frederick might have had for reuniting the family of four more brothers and two sisters went up in flames with it.

A few years after his arrival in Canada Frederick took up farming as a hired hand in Wellandport. Sometime during the 20's he went west to help with the farvest for a year.

When he returned East he eventually found himself a job at Union Carbide in Welland where he remained until his retirement eight years ago.

Alfred left the orphanage where he was 14 and doesn't care to ever look back on those years.

A few years ago, Alfred's wife died, leaving him without any family at all until he was contacted by the Salvation Army missing persons bureau in 1980.

Now he has suddenly acquired a sprawling Canadian famiy of nine nephews and nieces, 20 great nephews and nieces and three great great nephews and nieces, to name a few.

So far Alfred has found Canadian habits a little peculiar. He thinks the natives are all overfed and drive tremendous sized cars.

His brother adds they have been talking a blue streak since Alfred arrived with so many years to fill in. And they don't expect conversation to subside much during Alfred's two month stay.

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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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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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