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Record #16757

Name :: : Frederick William STEARN (1907 - 1986)
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 23 Oct 1907
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1986

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 29 Jun 1920
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Scotian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

Notesson of
Richard Stearn
1866 ?
Elizabeth Jeffs
1875 ?

Sibling of:

Richard George Edward Stearn
1900 ? 1970
John Frederick Stearn
1902 ? 1966
George Frederick Stearn
1903 ? 1903
Henry Thomas Stearn
1904 ? 1969
George Stearn
1906 ?
Alfred James Stearn
1909 ? 1985
Elizabeth Harriet Stearn
1912 ? 1978
Robert Victor Stearn
1916 ?
Florence A Stearn
1919 ?

From a Toronto newspaper:

The reunion of two brother who haven't seen each other in 60 years is an occasion for smothering hugs and the odd tear or two.

It might happen that way in story books, but Frederick Stearn and his brother Alfred have a whole life time to squeeze into two months - and its not going to be easy.

When Alfred finally arrived five hours late from London, England, Thursday night, neither his brother's granddaughter nor Frederick himself were really sure it was him. They furtively tried to match faces in the crowd with the phtographs clutched in their hands.

I was chasing old men around asking them if they were Alfred Stearn, says Denise Z---, Frederick's granddughter.

But Alfred had no trouble recogonizing his long lost brother. I cam up the stairs, looked over the rails and saw him. And I knew it was him.

The rainy ride back from Toronto International Airport was more like a banter of British music-hall jokes told in Alfred's rich Cockney accent than a nostalgic reunion. "If the weather had been a bit better" he quipped "I'd have gotten out of the plane and walked"

The two brothers were reluctant to speak of the past that they shared in a London orphanage shortly after the First World War.

Neither is sure what happened to their parents but "apparently my folk's couldn't look after us at the time so they put us in a home" says Frederick.

In 1920, a 13 year old Frederick answered the call of asventure in the new world and was shipped to Dr. Bernardo's home for boys in Toronto.

Alfred, who was 11 at the time, wrote to his brother for a few years until he moved. "And then I lost track of him for good.

In the meantime, the orphanage in England burned down and all the records were dystroyed. Any hope that Alfred or Frederick might have had for reuniting the family of four more brothers and two sisters went up in flames with it.

A few years after his arrival in Canada Frederick took up farming as a hired hand in Wellandport. Sometime during the 20's he went west to help with the farvest for a year.

When he returned East he eventually found himself a job at Union Carbide in Welland where he remained until his retirement eight years ago.

Alfred left the orphanage where he was 14 and doesn't care to ever look back on those years.

A few years ago, Alfred's wife died, leaving him without any family at all until he was contacted by the Salvation Army missing persons bureau in 1980.

Now he has suddenly acquired a sprawling Canadian famiy of nine nephews and nieces, 20 great nephews and nieces and three great great nephews and nieces, to name a few.

So far Alfred has found Canadian habits a little peculiar. He thinks the natives are all overfed and drive tremendous sized cars.

His brother adds they have been talking a blue streak since Alfred arrived with so many years to fill in. And they don't expect conversation to subside much during Alfred's two month stay.

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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
23777	ANDREWS, Annie Evelyn	1906	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
23196	ANTCLIFF, Robert	1910	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
13741	ASH, Ernest William	1910	ENG, , Isle of Wight	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
15784	BAKER, Edgar Frank	1896	ENG, LDN, London	Jul 1909 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
9242	BALL, Elizabeth	1907	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
22557	BALLANTYNE, Robert B	1898	SCT,	Apr 1912 : Scotian	CAN	Quarriers
9276	BARHAM, Ada	1906	ENG, , Norwich	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
15533	BATCHELOR, Hannah	1908	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
12377	BELL, Dorothy	1911	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
22602	BRAGGINGTON, Elsie	1907	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
22098	BRAMALL, Ernest	1909	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
8414	CAUNT, Evelyn	1907	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
9311	CHALLIS, John Henry	1907	ENG, , Guisborough	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
4006	COX, Frederick Arthur	1908	ENG, OXF, Headington	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
19907	CREIGHTON, Robert Thomson	1897	SCT, , Coatbridge	Apr 1912 : Scotian	CAN	Quarriers
16412	CUMMING, George Simpson	1901	SCT, BAN, Aberlour	Mar 1913 : Scotian	CAN	Quarriers
16413	CUMMING, William	1899	SCT, BAN, Aberlour	Mar 1913 : Scotian	CAN	Quarriers
10834	DADE, James	1905	ENG, , Ipswich	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
15508	DAW, Frederick	1906	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
4533	DAWSON, Lucy Lavinia	1906	ENG, YKS, Rotheram	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
15551	ELMS, Lily	1907	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
3510	FRENCH, Mabel Edith B.	1905	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos	sussexgirl
12789	GENTLE, Horace	1908	ENG, , St Albans	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
4574	GEORGE, Gwendoline	1909	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
4570	GEORGE, Matilda	1906	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
4573	GEORGE, Susan	1907	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
8609	GREEN, Lilian Margaret	1896	ENG,	May 1913 : Scotian	CAN	Sailing Alone
22462	HAYNES, William Richard	1906	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
10889	HIRST, Lily	1906	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
22101	HOLE, Anthony W	1910	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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