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Record #3892

Name :: : William Edward MAYFIELD (1895 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1895 (approx.)
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 11 Jun 1904
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Carthaginian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Middlemore

NotesHis daughter, Doris `Dolly' Warner, related (in Port 21 - Canada's Immigration Museum {website}pier21.ca/research/collections/the-story-collection/online-story-collection/british-home-children/):

My father William Edward Mayfield was born in London, England. When he was twelve years old his mother died his father put him in the Blue Coat School. He was shipped off to Canada - landed in Halifax. He was then sent to Mulgrave Nova Scotia to live with the Grants. The 1912 war started he joined the army was stationed in London, England.

My mother Florence May Batchlor was born in Birmingham, England. When she was old enough she worked in a sample dress factory. The war started they chaged to ammunition factory. On certain weekends a group of girls would go to London for the weekends, one weekend my mother met my father by Big Ben clock. It was love at first sight, she was determined form then on she was going to Canada, her father didn't like the idea of her sailing so far away from home, he said, "you will go to Canada you will have a hard life and have more kids than you can handle."

October 9 - 1920 she sailed on the Caronia to Halifax arriving at Pier 2. She was not allowed in the country as a single person, they were married at Pier 2. Abbie Lane stood for her, then off to Mulgrave they went. In 1935 my father broke his back in a car accident. We moved to HALIFAX to be near the hospitals to learn to walk and recuperate.

My father worked at the main post office head of the foreign mails. My mother worked at Pier 21 as a volunteer in the canteen. In 1949 my mother sailed to England to see family and friends. I was 24 years old at the time they allowed me to take her place. I worked there 3 weeks. I can remember on incident that happened at the canteen, a ship came to the Counter, she asked if we had any bars with nuts, my answer was "oh Henry has nuts. Well it caused quite a stir. I enjoyed working there.

Names I remember while working there are Frank Taylor the manager of the canteen, Tim Conway, a commissioner. Also my sister-in-law Dorothy Warner who was a Red Cross Volunteer giving out knitted sweaters, scarves, socks and mitts to the Immigrants.

My mother if anyone asked her how many children she had, she would answer" I came to stock the country, I had one less than a dozen." My mother died in 1971.

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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
3042	ABBOTT, John	1881	SCT,	Sep 1886 : Carthaginian	CAN	Emma Stirling
3140	ACKROYD, Frances May	1899	M__,	Jun 1915 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
3143	ACKROYD, Mabel Emma	1904	IRL,	Jun 1915 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
3144	ACKROYD, William Henry	1906	IND, , Quetta	Jun 1915 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
9641	AGAR, John	1905	ENG,	Jun 1911 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
13349	ALGIE, James	1871	SCT,	Apr 1888 : Carthaginian	CAN	Quarriers
4645	ALLDRIDGE, Arthur	1897	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1904 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4644	ALLDRIDGE, Harry	1892	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1904 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4643	ALLDRIDGE, Violet	1893	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1904 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
9650	ALLEN, Dorothy	1903	ENG,	Jun 1911 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4703	ALLEN, Thomas Henry	1899	ENG, WOR, Kings Norton	May 1907 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
12871	ALLEN, Walter Harry	1883	ENG, WOR, Kidderminster	Jun 1895 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
17071	ANDREWS, William	1898	ENG,	May 1908 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
5753	ARUNDEL, Alfred	1900	ENG, , Kings Norton	May 1914 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
5754	ASHBURNE, Alfred	1892	ENG, YKS, Dewsbury	May 1907 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
24069	ASHBY, James	1904	ENG,	Jun 1915 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
23681	ASHFIELD, George	1900	ENG,	Jun 1912 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
23682	ASHLEY, Frank	1895	ENG,	Jun 1904 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
23683	ASHTON, Abraham	1896	ENG,	May 1907 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4015	ATTWOOD, Beatrice May	1897	ENG, WOR, Worcester	Jun 1911 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4016	ATTWOOD, Louisa	1899	ENG, WOR, Worcester	Jun 1911 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
3620	AVERILL, Ernest John	1894	ENG, BRK, Reading	Jun 1909 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
8592	BAILEY, Ernest	1902	ENG,	Jun 1911 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
3423	BALL, Albert Victor	1902	ENG, WAR, Aston	Jun 1912 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
3422	BALL, Amelia	1900	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1911 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
24070	BALL, Daisy	1909	ENG,	Jun 1915 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
4038	BALL, Edward	1901	ENG, WAR, Aston	Jun 1912 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
24071	BALL, George	1907	ENG,	Jun 1915 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
9157	BARLEY, Edward	1894	ENG, STS, Wolverhampton	May 1907 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
7199	BARLEY, Frederick	1897	ENG, STS, Wolverhampton	May 1907 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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