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Record #10291

Name :: : John William WILLIAMSON (1909 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1909 (approx.)
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 20 Jun 1924
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Minnedosa
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesIn 1924, John William Williamson, 15, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 78 Barnardo children en route to Toronto, Ontario.

"Lethbridge Herald
September 15, 1926

Harvesters Were Hungry, Broke Into Barber Shop took $4

Two Youths Sent to Jail for Calgary and Lethbridge Burglaries.

With only ten cents between them, and driven by hunger, as they stated, John Williamson and William aird, youths of between 17 and 18 years, broke into the Westbrook barber shop and stole the sum of $4 from the till on the night of September 8 last. The Assiniboia music store was robbed the same night of $20, but this was not the work of the youths, according to what they said. both youths came from the cast to work in the harvest fields. Williamson was formerly in the Dr. Barnardo home in England and aird is a student in Toronto University, to which he won a scholarship and had gone through the first year's course, he said. His parents lived in Ottawa and he has lost both of them.

Arrested at Calgary

The two youths were arrested at Calgary for breaking into a beauty shop there, and were given 60 days in the Lethbridge jail. On their arrival in the city they were met by Chief Harris and Inspector Wallis, who suspected them of being the theives [sic] who broke into the Westbrook barber shop and Assiniboia music store. They confessed to the former and appeared on the charge before Magistrate Hamilton on Wednesday morning, being remanded for sentence for 30 days.

Entered by Window

to the police the prisoners said that, with only ten cents between them, and with no money to get food, they broke into the barber shop by taking off the screen by cutting around the edge with a pocket knife and breaking the window. Aird went in, and Williamson kept watch outside. He had an old revolver in his pocket, which he said he intended "to stick into the ribs of the boss if he turned up so that they could laugh seeing him run."

Went to Calgary

After taking the money Aird left by the beauty parlor door, about half past eight and the two of them went to a restaurant and had a meal costing 75 cents each. They then went to the freight yards and hung around for two or three hours. Getting cold they left and had another meal, and then going back to the station jumped the blind baggage car of the passenger train, getting out at Macleod and into a freight at nine in the morning of the ninth, arriving at Calgary, where they broke into three stores but found no money in any of them."

ContributorsCreated : 2009-11-15 17:01:53 / From original database

Last Updated : 2010-04-27 11:52:43 /

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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
3090	ABRAHAM, Reginald Robert	1908	ENG, STS, Newcastle-under-Lyme	Sep 1920 : Minnedosa	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
3091	ABRAHAM, Thomas William	1906	ENG, STS, Newcastle-under-Lyme	Sep 1920 : Minnedosa	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
3125	ACKERMAN, James David Ernest	1910	ENG, ESS, West Ham	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
3126	ACKERMAN, Leslie David	1914	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
10220	ALEXANDER, Jack	1908	ENG, KEN, Hoo	Jul 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	MacPherson Homes
10417	ALEXANDER, Kevin Ernest	1909	ENG, SSX, Littlehampton	May 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Father Hudsons Homes
23376	ALEXANDER, Walter	1906	ENG,	May 1920 : Minnedosa	CAN	Middlemore
23195	ALLEN, Lilian May	1905	ENG,	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
22730	ALLEN, Lily	1906	ENG,	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
23775	ANDERSON, Frederick	1909	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
6594	ANDERSON, Leslie	1913	ENG, LDN, London	Jul 1927 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
22785	ANDREWS, Bertram Arthur	1912	ENG,	Sep 1922 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
22731	ANDREWS, Edward	1911	ENG,	Sep 1922 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
15843	ANSCOMBE, Queenie May	1909	ENG, KEN, Dover	Sep 1922 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
23786	ANSELL, Charles	1909	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
23787	ANSELL, Jack	1909	ENG,	Sep 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
3800	APPLEBY, Nelson F.	1910	ENG, MDX, Lewisham, London	Jun 1924 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
22207	ARCH, William Alfred	1908	ENG, LIN, Grantham	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
23377	ASHFIELD, Ernest	1904	ENG,	May 1920 : Minnedosa	CAN	Middlemore
23048	ASHTON, Samuel	1908	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
11940	ASPDEN, Margaret	1911	ENG, CHS, Birkenhead	Jun 1924 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
22581	ASTLEY, Kenneth Alfred James	1911	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos	klms65
23851	ATKINSON, Lavinia	1910	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
23893	AVERY, Leonard	1912	ENG,	May 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Middlemore
6585	AVES, Rose	1912	ENG, LDN, London	Jul 1927 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
22586	BALES, Mary	1910	ENG,	Sep 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
23925	BALL, Frank	1909	ENG,	May 1920 : Minnedosa	CAN	Middlemore
10456	BALL, George Ogilvie	1911	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
23372	BALL, Herbert	1907	ENG,	May 1920 : Minnedosa	CAN	Middlemore
23673	BALL, Irene	1912	ENG,	Sep 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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