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Record #4164

Name :: : Frank LORENZ (1897 - 1987)
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BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 5 Dec 1897
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
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
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
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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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
3023	ABBOTT, Charles	1884	ENG, ESS, Messing	Apr 1900 : Dominion	CAN	National Childrens Home
3029	ABBOTT, Edward	1863	ENG, LIN, Bourne	Jun 1882 : Dominion	CAN	Unknown
3858	ABBOTT, Emily Jane	1886	ENG, YKS, Guisborough	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3066	ABEL, Charles	1891	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3068	ABEL, George	1887	ENG,	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3069	ABEL, George	1897	ENG,	Mar 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3160	ABSOLOM, Albert Edward	1897	ENG, BRK, Reading	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3107	ABSOLOM, Henry Richard James	1893	ENG, BRK, Reading	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3134	ACKLAND, Herbert George	1898	ENG, LND, Camberwell	Oct 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3142	ACKROYD, John Edward	1886	ENG,	Apr 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3153	ACTON, Alice	1889	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3154	ACTON, Ellen	1891	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
6255	ADAMS, Ada Gertrude	1895	ENG, WIL, Highworth	Mar 1909 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
22827	ADAMS, C R	1885	ENG,	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
26477	ADAMS, Charles W R	1887	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
23730	ADAMS, Eliza	1887	ENG,	Oct 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
5602	ADAMS, Gladys	1898	ENG,	Mar 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
22545	ADAMS, Henry William	1898	ENG,	Mar 1912 : Dominion	CAN	Unknown
23726	ADAMS, Isabel	1888	ENG,	Aug 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3278	ADAMS, Robert Henry	1888	ENG,	Mar 1901 : Dominion	CAN	Louisa Birt
23732	ADAMS, Thomas G	1901	ENG,	Mar 1909 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
10890	ADAMSON, George	1893	ENG,	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
9834	ADBY, Ethel Caroline	1893	ENG, BKM, Wycombe	Jun 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
8817	ADCOCK, Lily	1896	ENG,	Aug 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3759	ADDERLEY, David Gerard	1897	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	May 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3758	ADDERLEY, Harry	1899	ENG, WAR, Birmingham	May 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
12851	ADDISON, Gertrude	1886	ENG, LAN, Manchester	May 1899 : Dominion	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
17080	ADGEY, Robert Hugh	1885	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	Mar 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Louisa Birt
9831	ADKINS, Ann	1899	ENG, LND, Camden	Aug 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
9830	ADKINS, Theodora Margaret	1897	ENG,	Aug 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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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