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Record #15926
Name :
: William SUTTON (1912 - 1930)


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 23 May 1912

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: Jun 1930   Notes : Suicide by Self-Inflicted Gunshot to Chest
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Dufferin, Orangeville
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 15 Apr 1923
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Melita

Placement Family
: Armstrong
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Barnardos
NotesIn 1923, William Sutton, 10, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of Barnardo children (132 boys and 12 girls) en route to Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Toronto Star
Monday, June 23, 1930

DISCOVER NO MOTIVE IN FARM LAD'S DEATH

Barnardo Boy Took Own Life--At Times Seemed Melancholy

Special to the Star

Orangeville, June 23.--William Sutton, 18-year-old Barnardo boy, who was found dead in the bush of his former employer yesterday will be buried in the little cemetery of Rosemount not far from the spot where his body was discovered.

With him he will carry the secret of his suicide, for until to-day provincial police have not been able to find any motive. Tall, strong and powerful of build he was a willing and earnest worker. Oswald Armstrong of Mono township, his employer, is a successful farme,r and was pleased with the way the youth was making his start in Canada. There is only one thing he ever noticed wrong with the boy, that he was subject to fits of melancholia. "He was morose," the farmer told Constable Harry Butler yesterday.

A week ago William disappeared and a search was instituted. The boy's body was found with a gun beside it. Coroner W. J. McLean decided an inquest was not necessary.

Barnardo officials told the Star to-day that the boy had been visited by inspectors of that organization from time to time, "and that apparently he was getting on all right." As to the motive which prompted the untimely death they declared they are mystified and have sent a man to investigate.

Possibly on June 12, 1930, William Sutton, 18, born in England, farm labourer, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound through his left chest--apparently through his heart. He had been missing about 10 days. Death had been instantaneous. He is buried in Alliston Union Cemetery. 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-01-22 20:52:33 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-01-22 20:53:03 /

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18925 ABERY, Harold Thomas1908ENG, LND, Marylebone Mar 1927 : Melita CAN Salvation Army  
19040 AITKEN, Ian1909ENG,     Mar 1927 : Melita CAN Salvation Army  
10420 ALDERTON, Oliver Claud1908ENG, SFK, Bury St Edmonds Apr 1923 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
15553 ALLEN, Edith Mary1912ENG,     May 1922 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
10533 ALWAY, Walter George1912ENG,    , East Stonehouse Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
18790 AMBROSE, Alfred1912ENG,     Mar 1927 : Melita CAN Salvation Army  
23776 ANDERSON, Richard1914ENG,     Apr 1923 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
10631 ARCHER, Philip James1909ENG,     Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
23810 ASHBY, Emily1911ENG,     Apr 1923 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
15686 ASHFORD, Alice Carter1908ENG, YKS, Leeds Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
23816 ASHFORD, Arthur1909ENG,     Apr 1923 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
22647 ASTBURY, George1904ENG,     Jun 1920 : Melita CAN Waifs & Strays  
9584 BABBEY, James1910ENG,     May 1922 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
8397 BABBEY, Nellie 1913ENG,     Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
18514 BARNES, Ernest Edwin1908ENG,     1923 : Melita CAN Unknown  
10457 BARNES, Gladys1909ENG, WAR, Birmingham Apr 1923 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
22649 BATTLEY, Kenneth Harry1905ENG,     May 1920 : Melita CAN Waifs & Strays  
21429 BEER, Meta E.1916ENG,     Aug 1927 : Melita CAN Unknown  
3832 BINGHAM, Francis1910ENG, MDX, London Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
15567 BONNER, Sidney Thomas1907ENG,     May 1922 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
10425 BONNICK, Alice Annie1910ENG,    , Lambeth Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
13831 BOOTH, Jack Langton1912ENG, WIL, Melksham Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
18313 BRADFORD, William John Woodman1904ENG, SRY, Addiscombe May 1920 : Melita CAN Waifs & Strays  
10467 BRISTOW, George1910ENG, WIL, Mere Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
10468 BROWN, Frederick 1906ENG,    , Clewer Apr 1921 : Melita CAN Liverpool Sheltering Home  
19065 BROWN, Robert1909ENG,     Mar 1927 : Melita CAN Salvation Army  
22912 BRYSON, David1914ENG,     Jul 1928 : Melita CAN YMCA  
10442 BUCKLER, Leonard1911ENG, LAN, Prestwich Apr 1923 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
13747 BULLEN, George Albert Edward1914ENG,     Sep 1924 : Melita CAN Barnardos csedgwick  
6530 BURFORD, Bessie1906ENG,    , Cottridge Kings Norton May 1922 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
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