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Record #4408

Name :: : John Frederick SAWYER (1894 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 8 Sep 1894
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 2 May 1903
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Bavarian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Unknown

Notes[POSSIBLE MATCH] In 1901, John Sawyer, 10 years of age, was shown as an inmate in Saint Josephs Home, Enfield, Edmonton, Middlesex, England. It shows his birthplace as London, England. (Source: 1901 Census of England; Class: RG13; Piece: 1275; Folio: 105; Page: 8.)

In 1903, John Sawyer, 11, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 25 children and young persons en route to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

His granddaughter, Jacqueline Hamilton Allen, shared:

"His father was John Frederick as was his grandfather. His mother was Alice (maiden name unknown). She later married in New York and became Alice Ware. It is possible that she was Alice Amelia, with a birth date of about 1876, place unknown. She may have been married to John Sawyer, but that isn't known. Family rumor says that my grandfather's father, John Sawyer was imprisoned in Britain.

I have found a John Sawyer buried at Abney Park Cemetery in Dec. of 1903. His residence at the time of his death is listed as Hanwell Asylum. The little I have stumbled upon on the web refers to Hanwell as a " Lunatic Asylum". Would like an address and more information to further my research to see if this is "my" John Sawyer. He was buried in a family plot with his parents who both died 8 years before.

It is possible that Alice stayed in touch with my grandfather before he was sent to Canada, because he ran away upon arrival in Canada to join his mother in New York. His stepfather mistreated him and he ran away again at age 11 or 12 we were told. He had two half-sisters: Alice Ware and Ruth Ware Notzel. The Ware family moved to North Vancouver, B.C. when Mr. Ware retired. My great-aunt Alice lived in Kelowna at the time of her death--perhaps the 1980's--and her sister Ruth lived in N. Vancouver until her death also in the 1980's.

We believe our great-grandmother Alice died in Vancouver, perhaps in 1950. Ruth may have been married to Clifford Charles Notzel. She died in 1944 in N. Vancouver. She had a daughter Stephanie.

John Frederick Sawyer changed his name to Jack Gerald Clark. We don't know when or why. We have only a faded birth certificate and have found WWI draft reg. showing him in Boise City, Idaho with a "relative in Leyton, B.C." We cannot find Leyton on a map of B.C.

Grandfather married Ellen Grant in Coos Bay, Oregon in 1923 or 1924. He lived much of his adult life in San Francisco. He became an accountant and worked for many logging companies in the northwest during the depression.

Just before his death in 1976 in Salem, Or, he told my mother that he had a terrible secret of which he was deeply ashamed...how sad that we never knew. So much about this kind man who had great difficulty with intimacy can be understood knowing about his painful childhood."

Alice Amelia Ware died July 1, 1950, age 74 in British Columbia, Canada.

On September 14, 1918, at Boise, Idaho, USA, Jack Gerald Clark registered for the US Draft. He declared that he was born September 8, 1898; that he resided in Boise, Idaho; that he was a Canadian citizen; that he was a bookeeper for Idaho Provision and Packing Co., of Boise, Idaho; that his nearest relative was Mrs. A. B. Cook, who resided in Leyton, PO [EDITORS NOTE: Probably actually Lytton (Lillooet area)], B.C., Canada. He was described as medium height; slender; gray eyes. He suffered with aukylosis of the left elbow; left arm practically useless.

Jack Gerald Clark / John Frederick Sawyer died in October, 1976 in Salem, Marion, Oregon. On his Social Security information, he stated his date of birth was September 8, 1900.

ContributorsCreated : 2008-10-18 19:00:48 / From original database

Last Updated : 2008-10-18 19:31:31 /

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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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