Notes Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of Edward Griffin and Isabella Ward/King b in 1888 in Middlesbrough. When she was 5 and her brother 2, their mother died from a childbirth related illness. The baby that she had given birth to was named Ellen Isabella but sadly she too died at the age of 10 months, as the informant was her grandmother, I believe the children were being cared for by relatives. In 1898 their father remarried to Ellen Miles who had recently born a son who he is believed to have fathered. In January 1900 Edward Griffin died from pneumionia leaving a heavily pregnant widow and two children Elizabeth and her brother Dennis. Ellen kept the two children until March 23 when she placed them in the Workhouse Union Childrens Home. Elizabeth was briefly discharged on May 23 to her stepmother but returned to the home on May 30 by her grandmother. A note had been made by her discharge entry 'ran away'. On June 15 she was transferred along with several other Catholic girls to Nazareth House, a catholic orphanage for girls. She remained there until May 1st 1901 when she joined a party of catholic children on the SS Tunisian bound for Ottawa, Canada. She and her brother never saw each other again. He remained in the Union home until November 1900 when my great great gran (his aunt) took him from the orphanage, and brought him up along with his cousins as one of her own. 
