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Record #5939

Name :: : Edith PEARSON (1894 - 1968)
aka : Nana
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1894
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 1968 Notes : Stroke

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Hamilton Wentworth, Hamilton

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 2 Oct 1903
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Dominion
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesMrs Cox wrote October 13, 1903 about my grandmother "seems healthy but, has a cold and a sty on her eye. Is a very sweeet, bright looking little girl. Conduct very good, truthful - good disposition. I hear nothing but praise of Edith and the child quite happy - is lovable and affectionate - and a very sweet little singer."

My mother was very artistic. She loved to write poetry, paint and she loved to sing. She was a very good mother to all nine of her children, myself being the youngest. She loved animals lovingly rearing a baby Robin to adulthood. She had a happy and young at heart disposition. She wore bright colours to celebrate her joy of life. She accepted change and coped with difficulties and always said she had a gypsy heart and wanted to travel.

My grandmother was very sweet and loving. I remember her singing lullabies to me and my sister and her other grandchildren. She always loved family gatherings. And she especially loved sneaking out of the house at 4:00 a.m. in the morning with my dad, myself and my sister to go fishing.

I later learned of her plight from Gateshead, England to Canada on the Dominion Ship with the Bernardo Family. I requested her file and received her story. The blanks of her story that she couldn't quite fill in herself. There were over twenty letters from 1915 to 1968 before her death written to Bernardo Homes requesting information about her mother and her brother George and the family she left behind. Through out her entire life, her hope and dream was to find her family. Although, responses were received , she never received the information she was so
desperately seeking. More than a century later, we are still looking for her family. And, I won't
stop until they are found.

Nana, your legacy lives on in all of us that were born from you. Your story will live on forever in our hearts.

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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 30 Entries

ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
11642	PEARSON, Alfred	1887	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
4191	PEARSON, Alice	1905	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
4192	PEARSON, Annie	1905	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
26543	PEARSON, Charles D	1888	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
23873	PEARSON, Charlotte Sarah	1900	ENG,	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
11668	PEARSON, Daisy	1894	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
5939	PEARSON, Edith	1894	ENG,	Oct 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
15873	PEARSON, Edward	1897	ENG,	Sep 1911 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
4189	PEARSON, Elizabeth	1901	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
8897	PEARSON, Emily	1901	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
18664	PEARSON, Henry J	1884	ENG,	Apr 1895 : Sardinian	CAN	Liverpool Sheltering Home
6295	PEARSON, James	1897	ENG,	Jun 1909 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
13564	PEARSON, James	1873	ENG, MDX, Stepney	Jul 1887 : Sarmatian	CAN	Canadian Catholic Emigration Committee
23476	PEARSON, James	1899	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	Jun 1914 : Alsatian	CAN	Louisa Birt
25743	PEARSON, James	1899	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Louisa Birt
10799	PEARSON, Jessie	1870	ENG,	Sep 1880 : Moravian	CAN	Maria Rye
25662	PEARSON, John	1898	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
11745	PEARSON, Mabel	1892	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
14659	PEARSON, Margaret Scott	1879	ENG, , Glasgow	Jun 1894 : Pomeranian	CAN	Quarriers
14658	PEARSON, Mary Scott	1877	SCT, LKS, Glasgow	Sep 1891 : Hibernian	CAN	Labourers & Domestics
19199	PEARSON, May	1902	ENG,	Sep 1912 : Victorian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
11758	PEARSON, Mildred	1896	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
6116	PEARSON, Phyllis	1898	ENG,	Aug 1909 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
23477	PEARSON, Sarah Ellen	1901	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	Jun 1914 : Alsatian	CAN	Louisa Birt
4190	PEARSON, Walter	1903	ENG, SRY, Bletchingley	Aug 1912 : Corsican	CAN	MacPherson Homes
21120	PEARSON, William	1890	ENG,	Apr 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
25661	PEARSON, William	1899	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Catholic Emigration Society
25754	PEARSON, William	1897	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Louisa Birt
15655	PEARSON, William Earnest	1912	ENG,	Sep 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
26542	PEARSON, William J	1887	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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 30 Entries

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