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Record #16753

Name :: : John George LUCKEN
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Mother: :

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Date of Birth: :
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 6 Apr 1885
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Circassian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesPaternity
1872-1873 , St. George in the East, London, England
John George Lucken was born in Stepney, East End of London, in 1873. There was a question of the year of his birth, whether 1872 or 1873. This was brought to my attention from the information sent to me from Barnardo's, the home who took care of him and sent him to Canada. There was a letter from my great-grandfather John Lucken to Barnardo's when he was about 65 years old to verify his year of birth for the Canada Pension old age security.
This became important when I was searching for his father, Barnard Lucken/Lecken who was a merchant seaman and did not appear in any English census, presumably because he was at sea. He also died somewhere before 1881 as his wife Charlotte was listed as a widow in the 1881 census. I had found a Bernard Lucken who died in Friern Barnet in 1872, but I kept discounting this as it was north of London and it was a year too early to be John's father. He could not possibly have died in 1872 if John was born in 1873. Well, I finally sent for the death certificate and it turned out that Bernard Lucken was a sailor of about the right age who died in a lunatic asylum (Friern Barnet/Colney Hatch) in 1872. If you check the dates (and the English were very meticulous about their dates), my great-grandfather John George Lucken was born 9 1/2 months after the death of Bernard Lucken in the Colney Hatch. As much as I hate to admit it, this explains why his mother Charlotte was put into a work house for 18 months, even though she had brothers living in the east end, only blocks from where she was and who were rich enough to afford servants. It also explains why she insisted in the documents at Barnardo's that John was born in 1872, even though I have the birth certificate which shows he was born in 1873.
It would appear that Bernard/Barnard Lucken/Lecken was not actually the father of John George Lucken. I have left it so on the family tree as obviously, we will never know who Johnny's father is and he is the father of John's brother William (Billy) Lucken.

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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
3074	ABEL, Edith Mary	1874	ENG,	Jul 1884 : Circassian	CAN	Maria Rye
3072	ABELL, John J.	1866	ENG,	Feb 1883 : Circassian	CAN	Unknown
3073	ABELL, William	1867	ENG,	Feb 1883 : Circassian	CAN	Unknown
8692	ABIGAIL, Frederick Martin	1876	ENG,	Apr 1885 : Circassian	CAN	Barnardos
3087	ABRAHAM, John	1873		Apr 1884 : Circassian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
2766	ACHIEVERS, Mary	1866	ENG,	Sep 1882 : Circassian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
17058	AIRD, Lizzie	1871	ENG,	May 1885 : Circassian	CAN	Louisa Birt
8751	ALDGATE, Esther	1880	ENG, LDN, London	Jun 1891 : Circassian	CAN	Maria Rye
2754	ALLNUTT, Ernest Raymond	1877	ENG, KEN, Bromley	Apr 1887 : Circassian	CAN	MacPherson Homes	14Germain
6260	AMEY, Mary Ann	1871	ENG, SFK, Sudbury	Aug 1882 : Circassian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
22215	ASHFORD, John	1867	ENG,	Apr 1887 : Circassian	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
22466	ATKINS, Albert H	1880	ENG,	Jun 1892 : Circassian	CAN	Middlemore
9827	ATKINS, Selina	1880	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	Jun 1890 : Circassian	CAN	Middlemore
21884	BAKER, George	1875	ENG,	Sep 1887 : Circassian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
21885	BAKER, Jessie	1869	ENG,	Sep 1887 : Circassian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
21886	BAKER, William	1880	ENG,	Sep 1887 : Circassian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
4229	BALDWIN, Edward	1879	ENG,	Jun 1892 : Circassian	CAN	Middlemore
3479	BARLEY, Mary Louisa	1877	ENG, BDF, Olwarden	Sep 1891 : Circassian	CAN	Maria Rye
3480	BARLEY, Maud Evelyn	1880	ENG, MDX, Bow, London	Sep 1891 : Circassian	CAN	Maria Rye
18458	BARNES, A	1873	ENG,	Oct 1885 : Circassian	CAN	Barnardos
18471	BARNES, Alfred	1871	ENG,	1884 : Circassian	CAN
18479	BARNES, Arthur	1869	ENG,	1884 : Circassian	CAN
18789	BARNES, William	1867	ENG,	1884 : Circassian	CAN
18813	BARNES, William Samuel	1877	ENG,	1885 : Circassian	CAN	Unknown
21891	BARRY, Edward	1881	ENG,	Sep 1887 : Circassian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
21894	BASENDALE, Thomas	1881	ENG,	May 1887 : Circassian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
4238	BEAGLE, George William	1868	ENG, SRY, Camberwell	Apr 1885 : Circassian	CAN	Barnardos
20501	BECKETT, Thomas	1870	ENG,	May 1886 : Circassian	CAN	Unknown
20714	BECKWITH, J.A.	1883	ENG,	May 1892 : Circassian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
13883	BEGWOOD, John	1878	ENG,	May 1887 : Circassian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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