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Record #16675
Name :
: Amy Ella SQUIRES (1903 - )


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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 1903

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, London, Hackney
Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 23 Jun 1912
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Tunisian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesA birth registration was found for Amy Ella Squires: Date: Oct-Nov-Dec 1903; District: Hackney; County: London; Volume: 1b; Page: 448. Parents: William Charles H. Squires and Mary Ann Harrowell, married March 25, 1894, at All Angels, Hackney, London, England.

Alice Violet Squires, 2, and Amy Ella Squires, 2 months, were admitted to Barnardos Homes by their mother, Mary Ann on October 22, 1903.

Barnardos reported:

Mr. Squires was "of exemplary character". He was a carman for Messrs Palmer & Co., grocers of 84 Chatsworth Road, Hackney, where he was well-liked. On February 24, 1903, he died after six days' illness from pneumonia. His wife, Mary Ann, was 33 at the time. From an Insurance Company, Mary Ann received ?21; fram a Club ?12; and ?5 was subscribed by her husband's fellow workmen.

After defraying the funeral expenses, (?7 10s), the remainder of the money supported Mary Ann and her five children (supplemented by her earnings as a charwoman) until after the birth of Amy, who was a postmumous child. On account of her approaching confinement, the mother had to give up her work, and as she had been further incapacitated by a "bad hand", her employer, Mrs. Bainton, of 57 Powerscroft Road, Hackney, was obliged to get a substitute.

Finding herself almost destitute, Mary Ann at length applied for parish relief, and was granted six loaves and a small allowance of grocery. When Barnardo's officer arrived, the children were clamouring for food, which arrived while he was there. They were living in two very small rooms, the rent of which (5/- per week) was three weeks in arrear.

The Rev. Watson, 54 Powerscroft Road, had been making efforts to get the two eldest children into a Primitive Methodist Home, at Arlesford, Hants, and they had been actually accepted. They, however, failed to pass the doctor, and had to be operated on for tonsilitis. The question of their ultimate admission was still in abeyance, and there was a great probability of the vacancies being filled up.

Being unable to support six children, Mary Ann decided to give newborn Amy and two-year-old Alice to Barnardo's Home foster parent organization. Barnardo's Home was also given the right to resettle Alice and Amy in Canada. Mary Ann raised the remaining four children at 13 Maclaren Street in Hackney.

On 14 June 1912, Amy left England's shores aboard the S.S. Tunisian and sailed to a new life in Canada. She arrived in Quebec on June 22, 1912. Her sister Alice was also emigrated to Canada and sailed with Amy on that date. Both lived in several, and different, foster homes in Southern Ontario. 
ContributorsCreated : 2012-09-10 21:44:11 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-09-10 21:54:19 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
16673 SQUIRES, Alice Violet1901ENG, LND, Hackney Jun 1912 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
16675 SQUIRES, Amy Ella1903ENG, LND, Hackney Jun 1912 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
22067 SQUIRES, E.1884ENG,     Apr 1897 : Labrador CAN Barnardos  
5539 SQUIRES, Henry Charles1899ENG, WAR, Birmingham Jun 1912 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
8388 SQUIRES, Kate Elizabeth1899ENG,     Mar 1913 : Corinthian CAN Barnardos  
5538 SQUIRES, Wilfred1901ENG,     Jun 1912 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore