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Record #4382

Name :: : William Ewart KITSON (1885 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1885 (approx.)
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 14 Mar 1896
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Vancouver
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : National Childrens Home

NotesA birth registration was found for William Ewart Kitson: Year of Registration: 1884; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; District: Greenwich; County: Greater London, Kent, London; Volume: 1d; Page: 994.

In 1891, Wm. Ewart Kitson, 6 years of age, was shown as a scholar at The Childrens Home, Gravesend, Kent, England. (Source: 1891 Census of England; Class: RG12; Piece: 647; Folio 134; Page 7; GSU roll: 6095757.)

In 1896, William E. Kitson, 11, arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, along with a group of 54 boys accompanied by Dr. Stephenson and en route to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

In 1901, William Kitson, 16, farm laborer, was shown as a lodger with John Deyer and Mary Deyer of Charlotteville, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada. His date of birth is shown as June 12, 1884, and his immigration year as 1896.

According to his great-granddaughter, Denise, in 2000:

"My great-grandfather died in 1960, the year before my birth. He raised my mother and she speaks of him often. But, the stories she relates have many conflicts. When I decided to start doing the family geneology, I asked her to relate everything she could remember that he ever said and I wrote it down and started doing my research.

The first thing that came out was that he sometimes said he was born in England, sometimes Ireland. He also said that he was orphaned around age 5 and sent to Canada on a ship by age 8. He had several brothers and sisters but never mentioned names.

The story continues with that he was placed with an "uncle" in Canada at a lumber camp or something like that. But that he hated it and ran away--no mention of how long after he arrived. He made his way to the U.S. and met my great-grandmother who was sent to Canada from England in 1906 and further immigrated to Charleston, S.C.

He used two names: Kingston before WWII and Kitson after WWII started. I have proof of this based on SSDI records and birth certificates of great aunts and great uncles. No member of their surviving children know why the name changed, but at one point he was incarcerated, although no one knows why. Also, I have conflicting birth dates for him. One is from the memorial card given out at his funeral, and one is the date that my grandmother, his daughter, told me before she passed away. We have no official records for him other than a death certificate, which has the same date as that on the memorial card.

So, his name was either William Kingston or William Kitson. He was either born September 19, 1886 (from my grandmother) or June 12, 1889 (from his death certificate). The only other information I have is that he was rabidly anti-catholic. This may mean that he was not in a catholic orphanage, or he was and hated them for it. I never met him, so I can't tell what this might mean. He did raise all of his children and my mother as COE."

ContributorsCreated : 2008-10-12 20:43:07 / From original database

Last Updated : 2008-10-12 20:47:24 /

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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
22766	ABIGAIL, Ellen	1877	ENG,	Aug 1894 : Vancouver	CAN	Colonists Aid Society
3078	ABIGAIL, Helen Mary	1877	ENG, LND, Pimlico	Aug 1894 : Vancouver	CAN	Colonists Aid Society
14478	ABRAMS, Leopold	1885	ENG,	Apr 1895 : Vancouver	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
3121	ACKERLEY, John	1888	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	May 1900 : Vancouver	CAN	Liverpool Sheltering Home
3122	ACKERLEY, Thomas William	1886	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	May 1900 : Vancouver	CAN	Liverpool Sheltering Home
17051	ACKERLY, Thomas	1887	ENG,	May 1900 : Vancouver	CAN	Liverpool Sheltering Home
3149	ACREMAN, Emily	1877	ENG,	Jul 1888 : Vancouver	CAN	National Childrens Home
10030	ALBERY, Charles Samuel	1882	ENG, LND, Battersea	Jun 1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Barnardos
9857	ALBURY, George Arthur	1884	ENG, LND, Southwark	Jun 1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Barnardos
22729	ALLAN, Alec	1876	ENG,	Mar 1889 : Vancouver	CAN	National Childrens Home
12923	ALLEN, Harry	1885	ENG,	Apr 1897 : Vancouver	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
15653	ALLMARK, John	1879	ENG,	Mar 1889 : Vancouver	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)	allmarkc
15391	ARNOLD, Louise	1875	ENG,	Jun 1894 : Vancouver	CAN	Labourers & Domestics
16177	BAILEY, Samuel	1882	ENG,	Apr 1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
15096	BAKER, Elizabeth	1881	ENG,	Jul 1895 : Vancouver	CAN	British Women\'s Emigration Association
10911	BANCROFT, J	1876	ENG,	Jun 1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Barnardos
14437	BARKER, Samuel George	1884	ENG,	Apr 1895 : Vancouver	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
18447	BARMAN, Minnie	1884	ENG,	Jun 1891 : Vancouver	CAN	Bristol Emigration Society
18462	BARNES, A G	1893	ENG,	1907 : Vancouver	CAN
18710	BARNES, J	1882	ENG,	Apr 1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
18714	BARNES, John	1878	ENG,	1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Unknown
18734	BARNES, Martha Mabel	1877	ENG,	1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Unknown
18739	BARNES, Nelson	1880	ENG,	1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Unknown
12901	BARRETT, Mary	1882	ENG,	Apr 1897 : Vancouver	CAN	Marchmont Homes (now Barnardos)
14906	BARTON, Alice E	1883	ENG,	Aug 1897 : Vancouver	CAN	Barnardos
3442	BASHFORD, Albert Edward	1886	ENG, HAM, Isle of Wight	Jun 1891 : Vancouver	CAN	Bristol Emigration Society
3441	BASHFORD, Charlotte	1881	ENG, HAM, Isle of Wight	Jun 1891 : Vancouver	CAN	Bristol Emigration Society
16398	BATTERBEE, Sidney Arthur	1879	ENG, CAM, Wisbech	Jun 1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Barnardos
14023	BAZELEY, Charles	1888	ENG,	Apr 1901 : Vancouver	CAN	National Childrens Home
13958	BAZELEY, Harry	1891	ENG,	Apr 1901 : Vancouver	CAN	National Childrens Home
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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