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Record #5488
Name :
: Lily Ethel CROCKFORD (1891 - 1983)


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Date of Birth
: 20 May 1891

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 5 Jan 1983   Notes : Natural
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Middlesex, London

Surrey Square
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Middlesex, London
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 25 Jul 1902
Country
: Canada

Ship
: New England

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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesA birth registration was found for Lily Ethel Crockford: Year of Registration: 1891; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: St Saviour Southwark; County: London, Surrey; Volume: 1d; Page: 160.

Lily was born on May 20, 1891 to Henry M. Crockford and Jane (or Joan) Jeffery, Surrey Square, London, England. Mabel was born on October 5, 1892 and Violet was born on April 20,1897. Nothing is known of the period from the births till their abandonment in 1899 except as their father had stated, they had been in Liverpool prior to January 1899. The sisters came under the care of one of the agencies, Annie Macpherson.

Lily, Mabel and Violet Crockford were admitted June 14, 1899, upon the application of Mrs. Price, the landlady of 11a Belvedere Road. Mrs. Price stated that their father, Harry Crockford, had deserted them on June 13, 1899, and that his wife (stepmother to the children) went away the previous day. Their father was an upholsterer and said in a letter that he was going to sea. He took the rooms (furnished) at Belvedere Road in January, 1899, and stated that he had just come from Liverpool (R.O. Report 5603). The Board on June 21, 1899, directed that a warrant be applied for against the father.

Lily, Mabel and Violet Crockford were discharged to the Lambeth Union Schools on June 16, 1899.

Lily Crockford was discharged to Barnardo's Home on May 28, 1902.

Mabel was sent to Miss MacPherson's Home for emigration on August 24, 1904.

On May 28, 1902, Lily was transferred to Bernardo?s, the best known of the agencies involved with the sending of children to Canada. From May 1902 TO July 17, 1902, lily resided at the Girls Village Home, Forget Me Not Cottage, operated by the Bernardo?s.

The next stage of her journey began on July 12, 1902. On that day as per Alfred B. Owen in an issue of ?ups and Downs?(the newsletter of the Bernardo?s in Canada), the following event was described.

?On the 12th of July the entire party paraded in front of H.R.H. Princess Henry of Battenburg, Lord Brassey, the President of the Institution and many other distinguished personages.? The 397 children were booked to leave on the SS New England and sailed on July 17, 1902 from Liverpool. The ship arrived in Boston on July 25,1902. There was a CPR train waiting to take them to Montreal. From Montreal, along with 110 other girls, Lily left for the Hazelbrae home in Peterborough, ON.

In 1902, Lily Crockford, 10, arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in a large group of 397 Barnardo children en route to Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

These are the residences where Lily resided at while in Canada:

1) O. R. Stacey, Fleetwood. Store & Postmaster
August 8, 1902 to October 31, 1903

2) Recalled to Hazelbrae
October 31, 1903 to November 11, 1903

3) W. J. Moorhead, Elin P.O., Farm.
November 11, 1903 to September 28, 1906

4) Annie McClellan, Farm
September 28, 1906 to November 1909

4) Joined her sister Mabel at Parkhill, ON
November 1909

A family story related that Lily was influential in bringing her two sisters Violet and Mabel here to Canada.

On June 16, 1911, Lily married Daniel Henry Wood, a fireman with Canadian Pacific Railway and also an immigrant from London England, with her sister Mabel as her witness.

Daniel Henry and Lily Ethel Crockford Wood had only 2 children: Kathlene Ethel Wood; and Elsie Wood.

Descendants followed: By their two daughters (One deceased), 5 grandchildren (Two deceased), 9 great grandchildren and 3 great- great grandchildren with another great ?great grandchild due in May 2010. The legacy continues.

Lily did not talk about her childhood in England and said very little about her childhood in Canada. I can only make a guess that it was a part of her journey that she did not want to remember. It was only after her death, when we began to put her story together, that we realized what her journey had been and how she came to Canada. 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-03-08 12:44:00 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-10-04 10:28:14 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
5488 CROCKFORD, Lily Ethel1891ENG, MDX, London Jul 1902 : New England CAN Barnardos  
5489 CROCKFORD, Mabel May1892ENG, LND, Lambeth Sep 1904 : Tunisian CAN MacPherson Homes