Notes A birth registration was found for Ethel Caroline Adby: Year of Registration: 1893; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; District: Wycombe; County: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire; Volume: 3a; Page: 713. Parents: George Adby and Caroline Deane, married 1887 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.
A death registration was found for George Adby: Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862; Year of Registration: 1904; Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar; Age at Death: 42; District: Wycombe; County: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire; Volume: 3a; Page: 514.
Caroline Adby remarried Charles Bates in 1906 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.
In 1906, Ethel Adby, 12, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 239 Barnardo children en route to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
On February 6, 1918, at Stoney Creek, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Ethel Caroline Adby, 25, domestic, born in England to George Adby and Caroline Dean; and Cleoden Delacaurt Tisdale (born October 10, 1893), 34, gardener, born in Paris, Ontario, Canada, to George Tisdale and Agnes Findlay.
Cleonden Tisdale arrived in the United States through the port of Detroit, Michigan, on January 3, 1925, to reside permanently. His destination was with his brother-in-law, M. Long, who resided at 2613 Hamilton Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Ethel Tisdale arrived on May 9, 1928 with her sons George, John, Sanford and Charles Tisdale, and her daughter, Marion Tisdale. Her destination was her husband Cleoden D. Tisdale, who resided at 12681 Terry, Detroit, Michigan. She intended to remain permanently in the United States. Her contact in Canada was her brother, Harold Adby who resided at Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada. She was described as 5 foot 1 inch in height; medium complexion; brown eyes and brown hair. She had been born in Wycombe, England, and had arrived in Quebec, Canada in 1902 on the ship Dominion.
Ethel Caroline Adby Tisdale died April 13, 1973, in Redford, Wayne, Michigan, USA. Cleodane Delacaurt Tisdale died on February 22, 1973, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA, at the age of 89.