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Record #7695
Name :
: Robert DOWSE (1893 - 1909)


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Date of Birth
: 1893

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 4 Sep 1909   Notes : Peritonitis and Septecimia
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Ottawa
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 6 Jul 1906
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Tunisian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
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Agency
: Catholic Emigration Association
NotesRobert Dowse, died on 4 September 1909 aged 16 at Ottawa General Hospital. His occupation was farming. Cause given as General Peritonitis (1 Week) and Septicemia (1 day)

excerpt from the Ottawa Citizen
"They were buried long ago and almost forgotten -- poor "home children" who died in their teens or twenties and were buried in numbered graves.Now they will finally be remembered. On Saturday, at 2 p.m. in Notre Dame Cemetery, there will be a simple ceremony commemorating the installation of two proper gravestones for 23 people who died here, after being sent as impoverished children from England A letter from Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean will be read after a brief comment is made about each person as a rose is placed on their grave. Between 80,000 and 100,000 home children were shipped to homes in Canada in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some had lost a parent all were impoverished. Often they were from London. The 23 young people buried in the dedicated plot represent only a small number of them. Saturday's ceremony has been a long time in the making. In the 1980s, Torontonian George Dowse, a nephew of one of the deceased home children, Robert Dowse, came to Ottawa and searched for his uncle's grave. He was saddened to learn it was not marked by a proper stone." 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-05-04 02:47:26 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-12-22 20:38:48 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
8569 DOWSE, Richard1890ENG, LDN, London Jul 1901 : Numidian CAN Barnardos  
7695 DOWSE, Robert1893ENG,     Jul 1906 : Tunisian CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
7693 DOWSE, Samuel1895ENG, MDX, Isleworth Jul 1906 : Tunisian CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
7694 DOWSE, William1897ENG, MDX, Isleworth Jun 1908 : Corsican CAN Catholic Emigration Association