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Record #17221

Name :: : Ellen Margaret ATTERWILL (1895 - 1981)
aka : Nellie ATTERWILL
aka : ATTERWELL
aka : ATTWELL
Father: :
Mother: :

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Date of Birth: : 24 Oct 1895
Marriage (1): : 11 Oct 1916 Spouse/Notes : William Roy Taylor in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 25 Jan 1981

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

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Wentworth, Hamilton

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 28 May 1909
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Corsican
Placement Family: : Morton; Carew

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesA birth registration was found for Ellen Margaret Atterwill: Date: Oct-Nov-Dec 1895; District: Pancras; County: London; Volume: 1b; Page: 165. Parents: John George Atterwill and Ellen Catherine Bessey Lovelock, married 1889, Middlesex, England.

Ellen Margaret Atterwill was baptized at St. Barnabas, Camden, Middlesex, England, on July 14, 1899. Parents: Joseph George and Ellen Atterwill.

One story states that their mother, Ellen, died on 13 October 1901 of heart failure brought about by the rupture of a blood vessel. Another states Ellen had died in child birth with a baby girl named May.

Joseph Atterwill, their father, had a farm to run and could not keep the 3 girls so he sent them away. May went to his sister to raise. He kept the older boys to help on the farm.

Victoria Beatrice Atterwill, born June 22, 1897, and Ellen Margaret Atterwill, born October 24, 1895, in Kentish Town, were admitted to Barnardos with their brother, Joseph Lawrence Atterwill on February 6, 1903.

In 1909, Ellen Atterwill, 11, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 103 Barnardo children en route to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Victoria and Ellen went to the Hazel Brae Barnardo home in Peterborough Ontario Canada. Once there Nellie was sent to the Morton household in Omemee. Here she was treated badly and often beaten. A young man rescued her and took her back to the Barnardo Home. She was then sent to the Carew house hold in Lindsay as a domestic and a companion the the family?s daughters. Nellie had a reasonably comfortable and privileged life.

All along Mrs. Carew kept track of where Bea was and made sure that Nellie sent cards and letters to her. Nellie was also able to keep in contact with her brothers in England.

On October 11, 1916, at Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Ellen Margaret Atterwill and William Roy Taylor. They lived at 116 Crosthwaite Ave; raised 4 children and died there.

While Nellie worked in the Carew household, she became friends with Leslie Frost. He was to later marry Gertrude Carew. Leslie got into politics and later was the Premier of Ontario for many years.
It was Leslie who told my Grandmother that she was a worthy person who should enter the front door of a house she was to visit. From what I can gather the "Home Children" were looked upon as second class citizans and often not welcome through front doors. This was the case when "Nellie" went with my Grandfather Roy, to visit his parents. She was made to enter through the back door. Roy was not happy and didn't know what to do. That is when Leslie Frost told them she had every right to enter through the front door.

When Nellie and Roy married and moved to Hamilton, Leslie and Gertrude Frost would often drop by for tea. Their daughter remembered the black chauffeur driven Cadillac pulling up to the curb and the Frost's visiting for the afternoon.

ContributorsCreated : 2012-10-08 08:12:47 / From original database

Last Updated : 2015-08-28 19:32:27 / alanmack

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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

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