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Record #15822

Name :: : James STEVENS (1900 - 1915)
Father: :
Mother: :

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Date of Birth: : 1900 (approx.)
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 18 Mar 1915 Notes : Suicide by Severing Artery

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Caledon

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 1912
Country: : Canada
Ship: : - Unknown -
Placement Family: : Armstrong

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesOn March 18, 1915, James Stevens, 15, born in England, committed suicide after murdering Annie Violet Armstrong, 14, by severing her artery and then severing his own. Both died within a few minutes.

Toronto Star
Friday, March 19, 1915

MURDERED GIRL, THEN
CUT OWN THROAT

Double Tragedy on Farm Near
Orangeville -- "Home"
Boy the Slayer

Orangeville, March 19.--James Stevens, a Barnardo Home boy in the employ of Robert Armstrong, who lives three miles from here, in Caledon, murdered the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong and then cut his own throat.

Mr. Armstrong was absent at a neighboring farm, and Mrs. Armstrong was in the barn, where young Stevens was doing chores. Stevens took this opportunity of returning to the house where violet, the daughter, was. She had not yet risen. She evidently, from the appearance of the room, struggled hard for her life, and made her way downstairs and out of doors in her night dress as far as the pump where she fell and died.

Stevens cut his throat at the foot of the stairs, then walked upstairs to his bedroom where the body was found.

Mrs. Armstrong, returning to the house, saw the blood, and making her way upstairs in search of her daughter, found the body of Stevens. She then came down again and found her daughter quite dead in the snow. No one else was near the house. The only son was away at school.

No motive is known. The boy was treated as their own child, and the girl and he had always been on the best of terms. Stevens had been in Canada three years.

Toronto Star
Friday, March 26, 1915

The Jury on the murder of Annie Violet Armstrong by James Stevens, a Barnardo boy, who afterwards killed himself, near Orangeville, criticized the Barnardo Homes for lack of attention to teh habits and training of boys placed in Canadian homes.

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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 28 Entries

ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3253	STEVENS, Albert	1887	ENG,	Oct 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
6234	STEVENS, Arthur	1892	ENG,	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
23605	STEVENS, Arthur E	1908	ENG,	May 1924 : Demosthenes	AUS	Barnardos
13925	STEVENS, Arthur Ernest	1876	ENG, BRK, Tilehurst	Aug 1887 : - Unknown -	CAN	Middlemore
14886	STEVENS, Catherine E	1888	ENG,	Aug 1901 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
15004	STEVENS, Christopher	1884	ENG,	Sep 1898 : Numidian	CAN	Westminster Catholic Society
13927	STEVENS, Christopher Charles	1880	ENG, BRK, Tilehurst	Aug 1887 : - Unknown -	CAN	Middlemore
3783	STEVENS, Edith Ellen	1895	ENG,	Aug 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
15176	STEVENS, Elizabeth	1890	ENG,	Oct 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
5037	STEVENS, Ernest	1914	ENG, LDN, London	Sep 1930 : Duchess of Bedford	CAN	Barnardos
17254	STEVENS, Ernest	1908	ENG,	May 1911 : Tunisian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
13924	STEVENS, Frank Edmund	1875	ENG, BRK, Tilehurst	Aug 1887 : - Unknown -	CAN	Middlemore
4851	STEVENS, Frederick James	1909	ENG,	Apr 1925 : Montclare	CAN	Barnardos
19875	STEVENS, Harry	1895	ENG,	May 1907 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
4414	STEVENS, Henry William	1903	ENG,	Jul 1914 : Victorian	CAN	Crusade of Rescue
26786	STEVENS, Horace William	1927		Dec 1934 : Baradine	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
21064	STEVENS, J J	1881	ENG,	Apr 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
21543	STEVENS, Jack	1918	ENG,	May 1929 : Berrima	AUS	Barnardos
15822	STEVENS, James	1900	ENG,	1912 : - Unknown -	CAN	Barnardos
19534	STEVENS, James Samuel	1910	ENG,	Jul 1926 : Celtic	CAN	Canadian Government Scheme
15943	STEVENS, Jesse Balaclava	1873	ENG,	Aug 1886 : Sardinian	CAN	Maria Rye
19336	STEVENS, John Williams	1903	ENG,	Sep 1912 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
16775	STEVENS, Minnie Louisa	1893	ENG, , Oxford	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
26668	STEVENS, Mona	1900		Oct 1910 : Sicilian	CAN	Barnardos
13926	STEVENS, Rosa Ellen	1878	ENG, BRK, Tilehurst	Aug 1887 : - Unknown -	CAN	Middlemore
16383	STEVENS, Thomas		ENG,	Jun 1891 : Circassian	CAN	Barnardos
13928	STEVENS, Walter Cecil	1881	ENG, BRK, Tilehurst	Aug 1887 : - Unknown -	CAN	Middlemore
15821	STEVENS, William Oliver	1899	ENG, GLS, Chipping Sodbury	May 1909 : Corsican	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 28 Entries

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