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Record #3992

Name :: : Constance Marjorie READER (1904 - 1991)
aka : Connie
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 17 Apr 1904
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1991

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Edmonton, Middlesex,

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, St Thomas

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 29 Mar 1914
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Sicilian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesA birth registration was found for Connie Reader: Year of Registration: 1904; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: Edmonton; County: Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex; Volume: 3a; Page: 563. (Parents: Elisha Reader (1867-1905) and Julia Helouisa Haykins (1867-1912); siblings: Lillian Reader (Boyd); Ethel Reader; Hilda Reader; William Reader; Julia Reader; Beatrice Mabel Reader; and Stanley Reader.)

In 1914, Constance Reader, 9, arrived at St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, along with a group of 98 Barnardo girls en route to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

From her granddaughter, Sue Thomson on information received from Barnardos:

It would appear that one sister attempted to contact [Connie] through Barnardos in 1919 ([Connie] went into Care in 1913 and was shipped to Canada in 1914). There was correspondence on her file from her requesting that she not be contacted by Barnardos as she did not wish her husband or her husbands family to know that she was a Barnardo's girl. There is correspondence in 1966 from a neice, living in Perth Western Australia attempting to trace her and her brother Stanley. Stanley also went into care in Sept of 1913 but not with Barnardos with Arethusa in England. According to correspondence in my grandmother's file he remained in care there until 1917 and then basically disappeared. But the most interesting and heartwringing document was a letter from [Connie] to Mrs Hall, her niece, in response to a Barnardos inquiry requesting information about her sister and other brothers and sisters she might have. This letter was written on November 1, 1966 and requested any information on any living relatives. My grandmother thought she had NONE. Barnardos did not tell her that she had 5 sisters and 2 brothers even though they had all their names and addresses as of 1914. My grandmother died in 1991 never knowing that she had all these relatives. She only knew of her sister Beatrice Mabel and her brother Stanley and this information came from her niece in 1966. She and Mabel were never able to meet again before their deaths. Her niece Mrs Josephine Hall is now believed to be living in the US. Since I decided to pursue this information I often wondered if [Connie] would approve or disapprove of this quest. Having read this single letter I know now that this knowledge was very important to her.

Education, particularly for women, was so important to her. She liked to keep track of her children and grandchildren. She had a little tobacco tin of money that she saved and kept under her mattress and to those who went on to school she would dip into the box to help pay tuition costs. She raised 9 children of her own and 3 of other peoples who had fallen through the cracks. The money in the tobacco tin came from laundry that she took in "in her spare time". She dipped into that box every September for 4 years to help me with my education. She passed away 11 years ago but I feel like she has been with me every step of the way. That little tobacco tin had enough money in it to pay for her funeral. Connie Marjorie Reader was independent to the last day of her life.

Connie Reader requested for a change in placement in 1922. At about the same time, there was a letter from the last placement complaining when she ran away that her employer no longer had any help. The employer paid Barnardos the balance of her salary, $3.00, and stated that she hoped that Connie would make good on it. This woman requested another girl immediately and was in fact told she would have to go on a lengthy waiting list.

Constance / Connie married in 1923 in Ontario and died in St Thomas, Ontario, Canada, in 1991.

ContributorsCreated : 2008-08-07 20:10:14 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-02-01 11:03:27 /

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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
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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