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Record #4164
Name :
: Frank LORENZ (1897 - 1987)


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Date of Birth
: 5 Dec 1897

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: Nov 1987   Notes : Heart Failure
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Lewisham, London
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Brant, Brantford
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 28 Mar 1912
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Dominion

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Agency
: National Childrens Home
NotesFrank Lorenz was born in London (Lewisham), England on December 6, 1897. At the age of 12 he became a resident of the National Children?s Home in Frodsham, Cheshire near the Welsh border, where he lived for nearly two years in the Benjamin Walker House.

On March 16, 1912, Frank left Liverpool, England with a group of 23 boys from Frodsham under the guidance of Mr. Wadham on board the S.S. Dominion bound for Canada. On March 28, the S.S. Dominion docked at Halifax at 7:30 p.m. where 100 children under the age of 14, 15 infants and 830 adults disembarked. Twenty-four of the children were in Mr. Wadham?s group.

After cabin, steerage and medical inspections were completed, the 24 boys travelled by train at 2:50 a.m. the next morning to the N.C.H. receiving home in Hamilton, Ontario where they were greeted by Mr. Frank Hills. Mr. Hills assigned Frank Lorenz to the John Whiting farm on Brant School Road, a few miles east of Brantford, Ontario.
The Whiting family treated Frank extremely well. Reference was made of Frank as being ?our little man?.

When Frank left the Whiting farm in his late teens, he moved to Brantford where he was employed in a shoe store and a hardware store. He was a student at a business college in Brantford before apprenticing at the A. N. Pequegnat jewellery store on Market St. in Brantford. In May 1925 he left Brantford to practice his trade at the Ashbey jewellery store in Windsor, Ontario and in Detroit, Michigan USA.

In 1926 he married Grace M. Lake of Brantford. His desire to own his own business led him back to Brantford in 1934 where he established his jewellery store at 3 King Street where he repaired and sold clocks, watches and jewellery. His merchandise of jewellery, china, silverware and other related items increased with the move into 9 King St which was a much larger store. After over 50 years in the jewellery business, Frank retired when he was in his late seventies.

Frank died in Brantford on Nov 17, 1987 and is buried in Mt Hope Cemetery in Brantford.



Frank had connections with several other Home Children throughout the years.

After arriving in Canada in 1912, Frank lived on the Whiting farm with a boy named Tom Waters.

Frank corresponded with a boy named William Hodge who was his friend at the National Children?s Home in Frodsham. Wm. Hodge arrived in Canada in 1910. He lived on a farm in Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada with the farmer J.C. Boss.

Other N.C.H. boys who arrived in Canada in 1910 with Wm. Hodge were Wm. Bryant, Wm. Risby, Clifford Carter, Geo. and Fred Whatling, Abel Thackray, Clifford Ruffell, Horace Cove and Norman Myers.

The 24 boys who travelled with Frank Lorenz in March 1912, to the NCH receiving home in Hamilton were:
William George Debbage, Charles Edward Wilton, Richard Wilton, George Richard Morgan, Frank Brooker, Percy Nathaniel Levon, Albert William Humphrey, Henry William Adams, Walter Richarson, John Ernest Richardson, Claud Charles W. Allin, John Gregory, Thomas Campbell Reid, Frederick William Mack, Albert James Hoof, Raymond Robert Cox, James Thomas Glazier, William John Rogers, Benjamin Johnson, Joseph William Page, Sydney Walter A.H. Carpenter, Arthur Leonard Clement, Archibald Wheatcroft.

Frank was also interested in contacting Willie Hopkins, a private of Colchester, Essex, England.

When Frank Lorenz returned to Brantford in 1934 he had several contacts with John Cooper Duff, who came to Canada from the National Childrens Home in London England. John was also a NCH boy. John?s son Vince Duff lives in Brantford.

Thomas Campbell Reid was one of the 24 boys who came to Canada with Frank in 1912. Frank was friends with Thomas in the Brantford area. Frank and Thomas were pall bearers at Mrs. Whiting?s funeral in 1922.

If anyone has information about any of the above names, I (Margaret Lorenz) would be very interested in hearing from you. 
ContributorsCreated : 2008-09-09 07:46:13 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-07-13 12:53:06 /

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