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Record #15926
Name :
: William SUTTON (1912 - 1930)


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 23 May 1912

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: Jun 1930   Notes : Suicide by Self-Inflicted Gunshot to Chest
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Dufferin, Orangeville
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 15 Apr 1923
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Melita

Placement Family
: Armstrong
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Barnardos
NotesIn 1923, William Sutton, 10, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of Barnardo children (132 boys and 12 girls) en route to Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Toronto Star
Monday, June 23, 1930

DISCOVER NO MOTIVE IN FARM LAD'S DEATH

Barnardo Boy Took Own Life--At Times Seemed Melancholy

Special to the Star

Orangeville, June 23.--William Sutton, 18-year-old Barnardo boy, who was found dead in the bush of his former employer yesterday will be buried in the little cemetery of Rosemount not far from the spot where his body was discovered.

With him he will carry the secret of his suicide, for until to-day provincial police have not been able to find any motive. Tall, strong and powerful of build he was a willing and earnest worker. Oswald Armstrong of Mono township, his employer, is a successful farme,r and was pleased with the way the youth was making his start in Canada. There is only one thing he ever noticed wrong with the boy, that he was subject to fits of melancholia. "He was morose," the farmer told Constable Harry Butler yesterday.

A week ago William disappeared and a search was instituted. The boy's body was found with a gun beside it. Coroner W. J. McLean decided an inquest was not necessary.

Barnardo officials told the Star to-day that the boy had been visited by inspectors of that organization from time to time, "and that apparently he was getting on all right." As to the motive which prompted the untimely death they declared they are mystified and have sent a man to investigate.

Possibly on June 12, 1930, William Sutton, 18, born in England, farm labourer, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound through his left chest--apparently through his heart. He had been missing about 10 days. Death had been instantaneous. He is buried in Alliston Union Cemetery. 
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27166 SUTTON, Alfred  Jul 1930 : Balranald AUS Barnardos  
17210 SUTTON, Alice1894ENG,     Jun 1906 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
20023 SUTTON, Edward1875ENG,     Jun 1886 : Lake Superior CAN Barnardos  
12213 SUTTON, Edward Charles1917ENG, KEN, Bromley Dec 1928 : Bendigo AUS Fairbridge Homes  
24242 SUTTON, Emily1895 Apr 1906 : Friesland CAN Barnardos  
19047 SUTTON, Fanny Elizabeth1902ENG,     Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
19266 SUTTON, Frederick Edward1904ENG,     Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
8573 SUTTON, George 1889ENG, LDN, London Oct 1900 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
23312 SUTTON, George1890WAL, MON, Newport Apr 1902 : Dominion USA Barnardos  
25769 SUTTON, Harry1895ENG,     May 1909 : Corsican CAN Louisa Birt  
20664 SUTTON, Ivy1904ENG,     Oct 1913 : Corinthian CAN Barnardos  
18318 SUTTON, John1894ENG,     Jun 1899 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
18319 SUTTON, Louisa1890ENG,     Jun 1900 : Cambroman CAN Barnardos  
17209 SUTTON, Lucy1897ENG,     Jun 1906 : Siberian CAN Middlemore  
15896 SUTTON, Reginald1900ENG, KEN, Maidstone Apr 1914 : Empress of Britain CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
25721 SUTTON, Theresa1897ENG,     May 1909 : Corsican CAN Louisa Birt  
17208 SUTTON, Thomas 1897ENG,     Aug 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
9542 SUTTON, Thomas1909ENG,     Jun 1924 : Minnedosa CAN Barnardos  
15926 SUTTON, William1912ENG,     Apr 1923 : Melita CAN Barnardos  
24616 SUTTON, William1895 Jun 1906 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
13737 SUTTON, William Dennis1901ENG,     Sep 1907 : Dominion CAN Barnardos  
19390 SUTTON, William Isaac1902ENG,     Sep 1912 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos