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Record #2730
Name :
: Elizabeth GRIFFIN (1888 - 1958)
  aka : Marjorie/Margery Griffin


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 23 Jun 1888

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 5 Sep 1958
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Yorkshire, Middlesbrough

26 Morris Street, North Ormesby
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialUnited States of America, Michigan, Detroit
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: May 1901
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Tunisian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Catholic Emigration Society
NotesElizabeth was the eldest daughter of Edward Griffin and Isabella Ward/King b in 1888 in Middlesbrough. When she was 5 and her brother 2, their mother died from a childbirth related illness. The baby that she had given birth to was named Ellen Isabella but sadly she too died at the age of 10 months, as the informant was her grandmother, I believe the children were being cared for by relatives. In 1898 their father remarried to Ellen Miles who had recently born a son who he is believed to have fathered. In January 1900 Edward Griffin died from pneumionia leaving a heavily pregnant widow and two children Elizabeth and her brother Dennis. Ellen kept the two children until March 23 when she placed them in the Workhouse Union Childrens Home. Elizabeth was briefly discharged on May 23 to her stepmother but returned to the home on May 30 by her grandmother. A note had been made by her discharge entry 'ran away'. On June 15 she was transferred along with several other Catholic girls to Nazareth House, a catholic orphanage for girls. She remained there until May 1st 1901 when she joined a party of catholic children on the SS Tunisian bound for Ottawa, Canada. She and her brother never saw each other again. He remained in the Union home until November 1900 when my great great gran (his aunt) took him from the orphanage, and brought him up along with his cousins as one of her own.

Elizabeth was placed with several families in Canada including the Halpin family and the Heffernan family of Arthur, Wellington. In 1908 she married Charles Russell Hetherington, she is believed to have had at least 3 children possibly by him. At some point they separated, their eldest daughter was brought up by her paternal grandparents. While Elizabeth appears to have had the two youngest with her in Toronto, her middle child died in Toronto in 1914 shortly after her death, the 3rd child, a son was born,

Her 1st husband remarried in 1915, according to his WW1 records Elizabeth was living in Toronto in 1915 but it is known she went to Detroit, Michigan with her son between 1915 and 1920 where she got married again to a Philip Scherer 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-01-11 19:21:12 / From original database

Last Updated : 2015-04-19 08:45:48 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
16088 GRIFFIN, Edward1900ENG, LDN, London Aug 1912 : Corsican CAN MacPherson Homes  
2730 GRIFFIN, Elizabeth1888ENG, YKS, Middlesbrough May 1901 : Tunisian CAN Catholic Emigration Society Soltown  
15123 GRIFFIN, Emma1900ENG,     Oct 1910 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
16086 GRIFFIN, Grace Esther Emily1904ENG, LDN, London May 1912 : Corsican CAN MacPherson Homes  
23392 GRIFFIN, Henry V1904ENG,     Jun 1915 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
3695 GRIFFIN, Hilda1895 Jun 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
24984 GRIFFIN, John Sidney1900 Mar 1910 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
12738 GRIFFIN, Leslie Harold ENG,     Mar 1907 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
16087 GRIFFIN, Lilian1902ENG, LDN, London May 1912 : Corsican CAN MacPherson Homes  
13192 GRIFFIN, Sydney1912ENG, SSX, Hastings Jun 1923 : Regina CAN Louisa Birt glendag  
14605 GRIFFIN, Thomas W.1877ENG,     Jul 1887 : - Unknown - CAN Middlemore