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Record #27607

Name :: : Esther VIOLET HUMPHREY (1906 - )
Father: : Henry Humphrey
Mother: : Blanche Annie Spiers

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : Q4 1906 Notes : bpt 19 Apr 1908 Gloucester Union Workhouse
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Gloucestershire, Gloucester

6 Barnes Passage, Gloucester

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 6 Jun 1914 Notes : ship left Liverpool 29 May 1914
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Empress of Britain
Placement Family: : Mr W McMillan, Owen Sound

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): : Gloucester Union Workhouse
Agency: : Salvation Army

Notes1894 October 22 Henry Humphrey married Blanche Annie Spiers
1903 Lily May bpt 02 Feb 1908 Gloucester Workhouse
1904 2nd qtr 01 May 1904 Henry HAROLD Humphrey
1906 4th qtr Esther VIOLET bpt 19 Apr 1908 Gloucester Workhouse
1908 1st qtr Rose bpt 27 January 1908 Gloucester Workhouse
1908 January Gloucester Echo and Gloucester Chronicle Newspapers report:
“Henry Humphrey 6 Barnes Passage was summoned for willfully neglecting his children in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering and injury to their health…. Inspector Thomas Marshall NSPCC stated on December 17th he visited the defendant’s dwelling and saw the wife and three children, the eldest five years and the baby fourteen months. They were emaciated and the infant weighing only 11 lbs whereas the normal weight of a child that age was 22 lbs. ….” “Mr Washburn of Gloucester described the condition of the two older children as thin and starved whilst the infant was in a miserable state and considered seriously ill. Their clothing was sufficient and clean. He saw the defendant’s wife who was suffering from mental delusions. She was on the border of insanity and he ordered that the children should be conveyed to the workhouse…..”
1908 February 12 Blanch Annie Humphrey entered the Gloucester Lunatic Asylum… she remained there until her death 07 December 1946.
1911 census all of the children are either in the Scattered Homes or the Gloucestershire Union Workhouse.
26 May 1914 medical performed in the Gloucester Union Workhouse (Salvation Army notes)
29 May 1914 Salvation Army list of children going to SA, 105 Indian Road, Toronto on "Empress of Britain"
06 June 1914 ship arrived in Quebec
According to Salvation Army and Boards of Guardians records:
Violet Humphrey
1916 September W. R. McMillan Owen Sound Grey … Violet stays with the McMillan family through all inspections up until 16 April 1925 … there is a note 02 November 1921 that she is adopted by the family.
Notes: 1925 Out of work but expects to be reengaged at the “Circle Bar” factory. Has a bad cough – receiving medical attention – resides with good, kind people

ContributorsCreated : 2017-10-14 18:58:31 / janismccahill

Last Updated : 2017-10-14 19:05:27 / janismccahill

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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
3056	ABBOTT, Ernest James	1897	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
3035	ABBOTT, Geoffrey Robinson	1898	ENG, MDX, Paddington	Mar 1912 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Sailing Alone
3095	ABRAHAMS, Lily	1896	ENG,	Aug 1913 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Sailing Alone
3104	ABRAMS, Frederick	1892	ENG, LND, Battersea	May 1906 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys	Diblet
22986	ABRAMS, Frederick	1893	ENG,	May 1906 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys	Diblet
3105	ABRAMS, Reginald Edwin	1896	ENG, LND, Battersea	Apr 1909 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys	Diblet
9111	ADDYMAN, Edward Harold	1893	ENG, KEN, Plumstead	May 1906 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
3619	AGAR, George	1900	ENG,	Apr 1909 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
19518	ALDER, John	1894	ENG,	May 1907 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Hurst House Training Home
22771	ALDERS, George	1898	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
23148	ANDREWS, George	1898	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
8858	ANNESS, James Edward	1901	ENG, LDN, London	Jul 1914 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Salvation Army
23091	APPLETON, Alfred	1898	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
22684	ARCHER, Jesse	1892	ENG,	May 1906 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
22896	ARNOLD, Edward	1889	ENG,	May 1906 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
19855	ASHMAN, Frederick	1892	ENG,	May 1907 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
27617	ATKINS, George Frederick	1905	ENG, ESS, Rochford	Jun 1914 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Salvation Army
27618	ATKINS, Jane Ellen	1900	ENG, ESS, Rochford	Jun 1914 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Salvation Army
17305	ATKINS, William	1894	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
27619	ATKINS, William Richard	1903	ENG, ESS, Rochford	Jun 1914 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Salvation Army
27598	AVERY, Edith Mary	1901	ENG, KEN, Cranbrook, Hawkhurst	Jun 1914 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Salvation Army
23092	AYLES, Frederick Arthur	1896	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
11139	BACON, Edwin J	1896	ENG,	May 1907 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
22554	BACON, Ernest P	1901	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
3859	BAILEY, Joseph	1898	ENG, , Hastings	Jul 1907 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
23032	BAKER, Frederick	1898	ENG,	Apr 1909 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
11129	BALDWIN, Alfred	1896	ENG,	May 1907 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
2957	BALDWIN, Colin	1899	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
16574	BALDWIN, Leslie	1900	ENG,	Apr 1911 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
22837	BARBER, Charles	1893	ENG,	May 1906 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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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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