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Record #17019
Name :
: William Jeffery BALDWIN (1876 - 1945)


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 27 May 1876

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 9 May 1945
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Surrey
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Surrey
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 9 Jun 1885
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Sarmatian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Fegan Homes for Boys
NotesIn 1885, William Baldwin, 12, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 50 Fegan boys en route to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

On August 30, 1913, a marriage was registered between William Jeffrey Baldwin and Sarah Elizabeth Cartwright.

Three children were born of this marriage.

William died on May 9, 1945, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 68. Sarah Cartwright Baldwin died in 1964. They are buried at Hazelmere Cemetery, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.


William Jeffrey Baldwin, as told by his daughter, Miss Geraldine Baldwin, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada (from The Home Children, by Phyllis Harrison):

My dad said that his mother arrived at the dockside to see him off and he could remember her sobbing as she watched the ship sail away. He never saw her again.

My dad's name was William Jeffrey Baldwin. He was born in Surrey, England, May 27, 1876. His own father, Robert Gordon Baldwin, was killed in the African Zulu War when dad was about five years of age. After this, his mother (born Anne Jeffrey, a governess) went to France taking her boy with her. Eventually she came back and put dad in the care of elderly aunts but it is presumed they were unable to cope with the small boy; his mother, as a governess, was not permitted to have him with her. He was put in Mr. Fegan's Home -- which one I do not know. While there the headmaster asked the boys if any of them would like to go to Canada and my dad say 'Yes.'

I expect he arrived in the Toronto Home and from there went to a farm where he remembered having to get up at daybreak and feed, water, curry, and harness horses before ploughing the fields. He was nine years of age and how long he worked there, he never said. But from there he went to work for a doctor, driving the horse and carriage while the rounds were made and avidly learning all he could.

What he earned he must have saved and when 18 or 19 years of age he came to British Columbia, settling on the lower mainland in the District of Surrey where he eventually bought property. He went to school in Cloverdale to get his primary education, and then studied at home to become a stationary engineer. Dad died in 1945 and since he has gone I realize how much more about his life I would love to know. But he would never talk about it to any extent and being so young when he came to Canada he could not remember many details of his early years. He kept his letters, Bible, and pictures of his mother in the church at Hazelmere, which he helped build, and where he thought they would be safe. The church burned down and he lost all of this including his mother's address. He never knew what happened to her. 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-10-05 15:44:36 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-11-01 22:14:04 /

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3056 ABBOTT, Ernest James1897ENG,     Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
3104 ABRAMS, Frederick1892ENG, LND, Battersea May 1906 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys Diblet  
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3105 ABRAMS, Reginald Edwin1896ENG, LND, Battersea Apr 1909 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys Diblet  
3110 ACE, David1869ENG,     Jun 1885 : Sarmatian CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
3138 ACKLAND, William1869ENG,     Jul 1884 : Parisian CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
5341 ADAMS, Frank J.1914ENG, KEN, Bridge Apr 1929 : Duchess of York CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
9111 ADDYMAN, Edward Harold1893ENG, KEN, Plumstead May 1906 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
3619 AGAR, George1900ENG,     Apr 1909 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
13148 AIMES, Harold1886ENG,     May 1896 : Scotsman CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22828 AINGER, Charles1884ENG,     Jul 1893 : Oregon CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
8538 ALDEN, Thomas George1878ENG, LND, Holborn Jul 1893 : Oregon CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22771 ALDERS, George1898ENG,     Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22772 ALDRIDGE, Charles J1908ENG,     Apr 1924 : Montreal CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
19952 ALEXANDER, James1883ENG,     Apr 1897 : Labrador CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22774 ALLEN, Charles1911ENG,     Apr 1926 : Montrose CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
18435 ALLISON, Edward Albert James1895ENG, LND, Woolwich Apr 1910 : Empress of Ireland CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
18590 ALLISON, William George1897ENG, LND, Woolwich Apr 1910 : Empress of Ireland CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
23148 ANDREWS, George1898ENG,     Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
19911 APLIN, Albert1887ENG,     Apr 1897 : Labrador CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
23091 APPLETON, Alfred1898ENG,     Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22684 ARCHER, Jesse1892ENG,     May 1906 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22896 ARNOLD, Edward1889ENG,     May 1906 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22989 ARNOLD, Robert1894ENG,     Apr 1908 : Lake Champlain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22885 ARNOLD, Thomas1890ENG,     May 1905 : Southwark CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
15131 ASHER, Thomas1882ENG,     Apr 1899 : Dominion CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22215 ASHFORD, John1867ENG,     Apr 1887 : Circassian CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
19855 ASHMAN, Frederick1892ENG,     May 1907 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
22339 ASHTON, Albert1889ENG,     Apr 1900 : Dominion CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
23123 ASTRIDGE, Arthur1897ENG,     Apr 1912 : Empress of Ireland CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
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