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Record #16021
Name :
: Alexander Frederick CRAVEN (1902 - )
  aka : Alex


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 4 Nov 1902

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Wallasey

10 Juliet St.
Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 11 May 1915
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Scandinavian

Placement Family
: Benjamin Faulkner
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Liverpool Sheltering Home
NotesAlexander Craven came from a family with 4 siblings,(Mary/15, Richard/8, William/6, and Annie/4) in Birkenhead Cheshire. His mother Mary died in 1912 and his father Thomas enlisted in the war before Alex left, as he was part of the 8th battalion and was killed in action at Somme in 1916. I can only assume that this why he was put into the program on 22 Sep 1913.

Upon arrival in Canada his first placement family was the Faulkners of Moorefield, Ontario. By 1919 he had been with 7 families..beginning with Moorefield, Mitchell, Alma, Beechville, St Mary's, Moorefield again and his final was Forest,Ontario. He was always running away, stealing and this brought him before the Stratford Children's Court in 1917.

He tried working at the McLagan's factory and a Wm Thompson's garage both in Stratford. But by 1919 he told the family in Forest he was going to enlist in London and the system never saw or heard from him again. He surfaces again in 1922 when he marries Emily Jacobs in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Then he deserts his wife & 2 yr old son and newborn daughter in 1925/6...and disappears. 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-02-15 01:11:16 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-02-18 20:39:40 /

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10490 AUSTEN, Jonathan Saunders1911ENG, KEN, West Ashford Oct 1920 : Scandinavian CAN Barnardos  
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