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Record #22722

Name :: : Gertrude BAIN (1922 - 2003)
aka : Gertrude McCaig
Father: :
Mother: :

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Date of Birth: : 13 Aug 1922
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 15 Sep 2003 Notes : Alzheimer's

Abode (1) : Place of BirthScotland, Aberdeen

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Prescott

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 12 Apr 1946
Country: : Canada
Ship: : - Unknown -
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): : Quarrier Homes in Aberdeen
Agency: : Unknown

NotesThis obit came from the Lois Stanford British Home Child Collection - Gertrude Bain,81,a retired RNA,died September 15 at Wellington House in Prescott. She was born August 13 1922 in Aberdeen,Scotland to Samuel McCaig and the former Anna Mary Cromarty.Orphaned at an early age she grew up in the Quarrier Homes in Aberdeen and trained in nursing during the war years at Royal Glasgow Infirmary.Then she worked as an industrial nurse in the Royal Ordinance factory in Bishopton Scotland.She began seeing William Bain whom she had known from the Quarrier Home, when he was wounded in the ar and admitted to the hospital where she worked.On June24,1943 they were married in Aberdeen. She immigrated to Canada on April 12,1946.In the early 1960's she went back to school,taking a registered nursing assistant course at Brockville General Hospital. She graduated in 1963 and then worked part-time at Brockville General Hospital until she joined the Leeds and Grenville Health Unit.She worked for the Health Unit for 21 years,visiting schools in the area and also visiting geriatric patients in their homes and apartments. She retired in 1987. Mrs.Bain was a capable woman.While her husband was away often with his job,she kept the household running,including one time re-shingling the woodshed roof.She enjoyed sewing and working with stained glass. She also traveled to Vancouver and took several trips back to Scotland.Her home and family were very important to her. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer disease later in life and lived at Wellington House,in Prescott until her death. She is survived by her son Donald Bain and wife Brenda of Brockville and three daughters,Trudy Bain and friend Marion Thacker of Maple Ridge, Laura Finucan and husband Edward of North Augusta and Sheila Phillips and husband Robin of RR 3 Jasper,as well as eight grandchildren,1 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband in 1976 and by four sisters and four brothers,Ruby Reynolds,Pat Reedy,Leonard Hardie,Alfred, Sydney and Clifford and Evelyn and Doris.Friends called at the Barclay Funeral Home,Brockville on September 16.There was no funeral service but burial was at Oakland Cemetery.Memorial donations were directed to the Alzheimer's Society,Canadian Cancer Society and Heart and Stroke Foundation.

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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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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3052	ABBOTT, Alfred	1893	ENG,	Mar 1911 : Grampian	CAN	Unknown
3053	ABBOTT, Arthur	1866	ENG,	Jun 1884 : Sarmatian	CAN	Unknown
3029	ABBOTT, Edward	1863	ENG, LIN, Bourne	Jun 1882 : Dominion	CAN	Unknown
3031	ABBOTT, Ernest	1865	ENG,	Nov 1882 : Parisian	CAN	Unknown
3044	ABBOTT, John	1855	ENG,	Apr 1871 : Peruvian	CAN	Unknown
8435	ABBOTT, Sidney	1888	ENG,	Sep 1903 : Bavarian	CAN	Unknown
3008	ABBOTT, Thomas	1865	IRL,	Sep 1876 : Waldensian	CAN	Unknown
3062	ABEL, Abraham	1892	WAL, , Newport	Apr 1908 : Kensington	CAN	Unknown
3072	ABELL, John J.	1866	ENG,	Feb 1883 : Circassian	CAN	Unknown
3073	ABELL, William	1867	ENG,	Feb 1883 : Circassian	CAN	Unknown
3076	ABERCROMBIE, William	1855	SCT, LKS, Glasgow	Aug 1872 : St. Andrew	CAN	Unknown
3096	ABRAHAMS, Nathan	1895	ENG,	Aug 1912 : Victorian	CAN	Unknown
3101	ABRAMS, Ada	1894	ENG, ESS, West Ham	May 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Unknown
3106	ABSALOM, Richard	1874	ENG, SRY, Cobham	Apr 1890 : Sardinian	CAN	Unknown
18027	ADAMS, Albert	1894	ENG,	May 1911 : Corinthian	CAN	Unknown
22545	ADAMS, Henry William	1898	ENG,	Mar 1912 : Dominion	CAN	Unknown
9983	ADDYMAN, William Ernest Henry	1890	ENG, KEN, Plumstead	Jul 1901 : Cambroman	CAN	Unknown
6417	ALEXANDER, Charles	1894	SCT,	Oct 1910 : Cassandra	CAN	Unknown
22544	ALLAN, Alexander D	1912	ENG,	May 1927 : Metagama	CAN	Unknown
22784	ALLAN, Betsy	1873	ENG,	Aug 1879 : Canadian	CAN	Unknown
14909	ALSOP, Reginald A	1891	ENG, ESS, Epping	Nov 1896 : Laurentian	CAN	Unknown
22107	ALTRIDGE, George	1917	IRL,	Apr 1932 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Unknown
9593	ARUNDALE, Jessie	1873	ENG,	Oct 1882 : Sarmatian	CAN	Unknown
18400	ATKINSON, Charles	1911	ENG,	Mar 1929 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Unknown
4065	BAILEY, Ernest G.	1895	ENG,	May 1912 : Virginian	CAN	Unknown
22722	BAIN, Gertrude	1922	SCT, , Aberdeen	Apr 1946 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
15592	BAKER, Eva L		ENG,	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
15767	BAKER, Horace	1876	ENG,	1889 : - Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
22015	BAMSEY, Joseph Frank	1892	ENG, , Devon	- Unknown -	CAN	Unknown
18463	BARNES, A M	1880	ENG,	May 1896 : Scotsman	CAN	Unknown
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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