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Record #16770
Name :
: William Henry BAGLEY (1896 - 1962)
  aka : Bill Bagley; Will Bagley


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 21 Jul 1896

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 23 Jan 1962
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Warwickshire, Birmingham
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Fredericton
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 10 Jun 1903
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Siberian

Placement Family
: Clowes; Barker
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Middlemore
NotesA birth registration was found for William Henry Bagley: Date: Jul-Aug-Sep 1896; District: Birmingham; County: Warwickshire; Volume: 6d; Page: 92. Parents: Richard Bagley [1854 ? 1902] and Leah Stocks [1867 ? 1934], married November 1891 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.

A death registration was found for Richard Bagley: Date: Apr-May-Jun 1902; Age: 47; District: Birmingham; County: Warwickshire; Volume: 6d; Page: 32. [EDITORS NOTE: Richard Bagley died of apoplexy (stroke) at the table while eating breakfast with all of his family. The story is related on Leonard Bagley Fraser's database listing.]

William & his brother Leonard were placed in the Middlemore home. His brothers Richard & Walter & sister Annie had already been admitted on 17 July 1902.

In 1903, William H. Bagley, 7; arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in a group of 124 Middlemore children.

William was placed with George Clowes of Oromocto, New Brunswick, Canada.

On July 16, 1919, at Sheffield, New Brunswick, Canada, a marriage was registered between William Henry Bagley and Florence Louisa Moore, daughter of William Moore and Martha Matilda Parfitt. Six children were born of the marriage.

William Henry Bagley died on January 23, 1962, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Florence Louisa Moore Bagley died on Janaury 23, 1977, at the age of 75, at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.


Interview recorded the Summer of 1984

At the time the last remaining child of Richard Charles & Leah Bagley, Leonard Bagley Fraser was recorded at the Bagley Family Reunion held in Sheffield, New Brunswick, Canada:

"Will was born in, oh let me see?1896.

He came down here to a farm owned by a family named Barker. He lived here with them. The way I understand it he had a pretty rough road. He wasn?t abused. But, he was expected to do a man?s work there on the farm. [Will would have been 7 when he arrived in Canada.] Anyhow? when the war broke out? the First World War broke out the 4th of August 1913. And I guess he wanted to [Words that follow are unintelligible] so he could [Words that follow are unintelligible].

He never carried a gun all the time he was in the service. He joined the medical corps as a stretcher bearer. He went all through the war?was shot up a couple of times. He went into the [Words that follow are unintelligible] and back. Wound up being gassed and in hospital several times. [The gas in the trenches burned his lungs. While recuperating in French hospital he was taught bead weaving as therapy. The family still have a blue glass seed-bead necklace with a gold seed-bead fleur de lis that Will made while in hospital.]

By the time Will and the boys came home from France they really should have gotten a full disability pension at the time. Charles told him at the time, ?Don?t take off the uniform ?til you get a pension.?

They [Will and wife Florence] asked and questioned, filled out papers and tried to find out. They fought for years. His wife, Florence, fought for years. And when they finally got the pension it was $16.00 a month. And that?s what they lived on, that and chickens and fishing salmon.

He married Florence Moore from Sheffield. They had Dick, Ken, Jean, Irene, Donna and several years later, Darryl came along. He was the omega.

This is the original house they used to live in. [The site of the Family Reunion, then owned by Kenneth Bagley, had been the home of Florence?s parents William & Martha Moore.] And Will lived just down the road here."

[EDITORS NOTE: The full transcript of the interview can be found on Leonard Bagley Fraser's database listing.] 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-09-19 10:45:42 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-10-25 18:14:21 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
16771 BAGLEY, Annie Dorothy1894ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1903 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
10905 BAGLEY, John 1901ENG,     Apr 1912 : Corinthian CAN Barnardos  
16774 BAGLEY, Leonard 1899ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1903 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
16772 BAGLEY, Richard Charles1889ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1903 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
6862 BAGLEY, Walter 1889ENG,     Apr 1900 : Cambroman CAN Barnardos  
16773 BAGLEY, Walter Ambrose1892ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1903 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
16770 BAGLEY, William Henry1896ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1903 : Siberian CAN Middlemore