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Record #12335
Name :
: George Alfred FORD (1884 - 1973)


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Date of Birth
: 28 Jan 1884

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 15 Jan 1973   Notes : natural
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Hampshire, Gosport

6 Carolin Place
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialUnited States of America, Grand Rapids
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 9 Jul 1894
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Sardinian

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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesMy great grandmother died in the child birth of twins in early 1892 and my great grandfather was unable to care for all of the 9 children. He was ill and great grandmother was the one that was the "bread winner" so he kept the eldest children to take care of the new twins and decided to send my grandfather George and another son Walter with the wife of the JP of Gosport to London and take the children to Barnardos. A third child would have been sent but he was not a well child so he stayed home. My granddad was taken to the Receiving House at Stepney Causeway in East London May 1, 1892 and was moved to Sheppard House on May 10th of that same year. In July of 1894 he was taken to Liverpool and sent to Canada. He was then taken to a place called Ravenscliffe which is near Huntsville Ontario and kept there until sent to Clinton Ontario with a man named Alexander Brown (1897) where he is listed as a servant on the 1901 Ontario census. According to his records from Barnardos he was very well behaved and Mr. Brown was very fond of him. He, also, received the Silver Medal from Barnardos for good behavior. From there he went to a man names Edward Jones who is listed as his employer also of Clinton Ontario in 1909. He met and married my grandmother Ellen Shiels in 1911 who was born in Ethel Ontario and they headed out west to British Columbia where they had 3 children Edith, Velma, and William (my dad). My grandfather was a logger and worked in a cereal factory. They decided to come back to Ontario and he found there were no jobs and ended up in Detroit, Michigan. They lived with my grandmothers brother until they could afford a place of their own. One of their children died of diptheria at age 10. The oldest daughter got married and moved with her husband to Grand Rapids Michigan and grandpa and grandma decided to follow. Their son (my dad) stayed in Detroit. My grandma died in 1951 and that's when grandpa decided to go to England to visit the siblings he had never met. He had written his father from his placement in Canada as a small child but my great grandfather had never responded. He died in 1912. Grandpa died in 1973 in his late 80's. Never once did he ever mention being a BHC. I found out after my father died in 2007 by comparing dates and places. All grandpa ever said was that he worked very hard on a farm for very little money and just room and board. He always believed in hard work. I took care of him when he took ill and he never once mentioned anything but sometimes from some of the stories my father told me of his childhood my grandfathers past spilled over into my dad's present. 
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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
17577 FORD, Alfred1897ENG,     Mar 1911 : Dominion CAN National Childrens Home  
12285 FORD, Archibald1923ENG,     Jul 1937 : Duchess of Bedford CAN Barnardos  
19619 FORD, Arthur1883ENG,     Jun 1897 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
26746 FORD, Bertrand1899 Oct 1910 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
15911 FORD, Bridget1874ENG,     Jun 1884 : Polynesian CAN Catholic Protection Society  
19014 FORD, Dora Mary M1905ENG,     Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
5411 FORD, Eiza Emily W 1899ENG,    , Islington Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
17436 FORD, Emily1886ENG,     Jun 1898 : Californian CAN Waifs & Strays  
16534 FORD, Ernest1891ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1902 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
23026 FORD, Ernest M1899ENG,     Apr 1908 : Lake Champlain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
24158 FORD, Frederick1854ENG,     May 1870 : Scandinavian CAN Boy's Home Great Queen Street, London  
12335 FORD, George Alfred1884ENG, HAM, Gosport Jul 1894 : Sardinian CAN Barnardos  
10628 FORD, Harold1915ENG,    , Weston-Super-Mare Apr 1929 : Duchess of York CAN Barnardos  
24998 FORD, Henry1897 Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
18144 FORD, James H 1875ENG,     Jul 1887 : Sarmatian CAN Canadian Catholic Emigration Committee  
9360 FORD, John1896ENG,     Jul 1905 : Southwark CAN Barnardos  
12624 FORD, John1878ENG,     Apr 1896 : Scotsman CAN Barnardos  
6671 FORD, Kenneth1913ENG,    , Bath Mar 1927 : Montrose CAN Barnardos  
18661 FORD, Leon1897ENG,     Sep 1911 : Lake Manitoba CAN Unknown Catholic Group  
5863 FORD, Maud1893ENG,     Oct 1904 : Bavarian CAN Barnardos  
18885 FORD, Maurice1886ENG, DEV, Plympton Sep 1899 : Arawa CAN Barnardos  
8199 FORD, Stanley 1913ENG, LDN, London Sep 1928 : Antonia CAN National Childrens Home  
6673 FORD, Victor1912ENG,    , Bath Mar 1927 : Montrose CAN Barnardos  
12336 FORD, Walter Thomas1886ENG, HAM, Gosport Jul 1894 : Sardinian CAN Barnardos  
17438 FORD, William 1885ENG,     Jul 1899 : Lake Huron CAN Barnardos  
24997 FORD, William1898 Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
4029 FORD, William A.1897ENG,     Jun 1906 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
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