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Record #15927

Name :: : Hettie Doris MILLS (1895 - )
aka : Dora May Wiles; Doris Wil
Father: :
Mother: :

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Date of Birth: : 1895 (approx.)
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 13 May 1905
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Bavarian
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : MacPherson Homes

NotesA birth registration was found for Hettie Doris Mills: Date: Mar 1897; District: Hackney; County: London; Volume: 1b; Page: 618. Parents: Frederick Mills and Amelia Annie Tiffin, married 1892 in Poplar, London, England.

In 1905, Hettie D. Mills, 10, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of MacPherson children en route to Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

Hettie D. Mills was adopted by Stephen Wiles and wife, Susie Stratford. They changed her name to Dora May Wiles. Stephen Wiles, 63, died on January 13, 1919, at 42 Ascot Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of aortic aneurysm. Susie Stratford Wiles died on January 29, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, USA.

On March 27, 1926, at Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Doris Wiles, 23, operator, born in England, to Stephen Wiles and Susie Stratford; and William Wheeler (born July 22, 1899, died September7, 1979) 24, manufacturer, born in London, Ontario, Canada, to Charles Wheeler and Bessie Gale.

Toronto Star
Thursday, June 8, 1933

SEARCH FAILS FOR SISTER LAST SEEN 23 YEARS AGO

London Woman Seeking Kin Adopted in 1910--Records Not Open

IN BARNARDO HOME

Special to the Star
London, June 8.--Disheartened by 23 years continuous searching for her sister, Mrs. Walter Green met failure in a renewal of her quest in Toronto yesterday.

Returning to London, Mrs. Green laid fresh plans for a hunt based on meagre information obtained through the Barnardo homes, now holding records taken over the Annie McPherson home, formerly operated in Stratford.

Back in 1910, when Hettie D. Mills was eight years old, she was adopted from the McPherson home by a Mrs. Stephen Wiles of Toronto. Her sister, now Mrs. Green, and a brother, David had been separately adopted at about the same time and no contact had been maintained among the children.

In 1928, after a long and persistent search, Mrs. Green traced David.

Ceaselessly since the brother, who is now in London, employed as a factory foreman, and Mrs. Green have conducted their hunt. Yesterday in a search of old city directories in Toronto Mrs. Green found that from 1910 till 1913 a Stephen Wiles lived at 105 and later 153 Harbord St. From 1914 to 1918 the same name was listed at 42 Ascot St. From then forward the name is out of the Toronto directory.

A resident in the district told Mrs. Green that Wiles had been a salesman for the T. Eaton co. He believed Wiles died in 1919.

Thus the hunt for Hettie Mills, now in her thirty-first year, has again failed.

"I have been asked by officials of the home and by lawyers what I want my sister for," Mrs. Green told the Star. "What would anyone want to see her sister for? We have been separated all these years. For the last five years I have never ceased searching. I have employed detectives who told me the Barnardo home was not at liberty to give any information."

ContributorsCreated : 2012-01-22 21:24:01 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-01-22 22:08:52 /

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 40 Entries

ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
4680	MILLS, Alfred George Fowler	1911	WAL, , Cardiff	Apr 1923 : Melita	CAN	Barnardos
16219	MILLS, Alice Louise	1871	ENG, GLS, Cheltenham	Jun 1877 : Sardinian	CAN	Maria Rye
7718	MILLS, Amelia	1864	ENG,	Jul 1870 : Prussian	CAN	Maria Rye
18884	MILLS, Amelia A	1893	ENG,	May 1905 : Bavarian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
10099	MILLS, Bernard	1894	ENG, , Lambeth	Sep 1905 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
19813	MILLS, Charles	1892	ENG,	Apr 1908 : Victorian	CAN	Hurst House Training Home
2931	MILLS, Daisy B.	1881		Mar 1895 : Mongolian	CAN	Maria Rye
5821	MILLS, David	1899	ENG,	May 1905 : Bavarian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
13977	MILLS, Dora	1892	ENG,	Sep 1901 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
19401	MILLS, Edward	1874		Apr 1883 : Sarmatian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
15795	MILLS, Elizabeth	1876	SCT,	Aug 1887 : Nova Scotian	CAN	Maryhill School (Glasgow)
3771	MILLS, Elizabeth Ellen	1896	ENG, MDX, Bermondsey, London	Jun 1910 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
3772	MILLS, Elsie	1899	ENG, MDX, Burton, London	Jun 1910 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
20338	MILLS, Frederick	1871		Mar 1887 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
5264	MILLS, George	1915	ENG, , Teddington	Mar 1930 : Scythia	CAN	Salvation Army
10575	MILLS, Gwendoline	1912	ENG, , Bury	Jun 1924 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
18258	MILLS, Henry Charles	1907	ENG,	Mar 1920 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
15927	MILLS, Hettie Doris	1895	ENG,	May 1905 : Bavarian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
26095	MILLS, J W	1884	ENG,	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	Barnardos
7385	MILLS, J.H.	1870	ENG,	Jun 1878 : Sarmatian	CAN	Middlemore
4420	MILLS, James	1894	ENG,	Jun 1907 : Tunisian	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
27506	MILLS, James	1866		Aug 1872 : Sarmatian	CAN	Macpherson Homes
12783	MILLS, James Kennedy	1901	IRL, WEM, Athlone	Jun 1912 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
6324	MILLS, John	1876	ENG, MDX, London	Mar 1892 : Carthaginian	CAN	Barnardos
18548	MILLS, John	1898	ENG,	Apr 1910 : Empress of Ireland	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
20905	MILLS, John	1922	ENG,	Apr 1938 : Duchess of Bedford	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
23882	MILLS, Leontine Leopold	1891	ENG, GLS, Stroud	Jul 1901 : Numidian	CAN	Barnardos
7284	MILLS, Lilly	1914	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	Sep 1929 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
3773	MILLS, Minnie	1892	ENG, MDX, Bermondsey, London	Oct 1913 : Corinthian	CAN	Barnardos
26822	MILLS, Reginald	1924	ENG, WAR, ?Birmingham	Oct 1934 : Moreton Bay	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
20082	MILLS, Robert	1870	ENG,	Jun 1886 : Lake Superior	CAN	Barnardos
24970	MILLS, Robert	1901		Mar 1910 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
8362	MILLS, Rosa		ENG,	Sep 1901 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
27501	MILLS, Thomas	1865		Aug 1872 : Sarmatian	CAN	Macpherson Homes
3303	MILLS, Thomas S.	1887	ENG, SRY, Oxted	May 1895 : Labrador	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
15016	MILLS, Walter	1883	ENG,	Aug 1898 : Laurentian	CAN	Southwark Catholic Emigration Society
17896	MILLS, William	1899	ENG,	Jul 1909 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
19969	MILLS, William	1881	ENG,	Apr 1897 : Labrador	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
23883	MILLS, William Augustus	1894	ENG, LDN, London	Jul 1901 : Numidian	CAN	Barnardos
27424	MILLS, William T	1856		Aug 1872 : Sarmatian	CAN	Macpherson Homes
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