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Record #4499
Name :
: Violet Agnes CHAPMAN (1904 - )


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 13 Sep 1904

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Middlesex, London
Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 12 May 1919
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Melita

Placement Family
:
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Sailing Alone
NotesMy grandmother, Violet Agnes Chapman left England on the S.S. Melita in 1919 at the age of 14. She traveled alone, landing in Quebec and going on to Toronto to work as a domestic. She listed an uncle, Wm Johnson, as her nearest relative, with his address in Brighton, England.

We don't know who her parents were, but the story she told her daughters was that she was raised by her grandfather and sent to live in an orphanage when he either died or remarried. She refused to tell them anything else.

My late aunt searched for records while she was stationed in England during WWII, but was told that the orphanage and all its' records were destroyed by the bombing. We don't know the name of the orphanage.

Given her age and situation I believe she was one of the Home Children sent to Canada. We want more than anything to know who her people were and why she was sent to Canada.

She entered the USA in Buffalo, NY in September 1923. 
ContributorsCreated : 2008-11-25 22:01:18 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-01-19 19:15:57 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
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  
IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
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