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Record #4642
Name :
: William Henry ALLDRIDGE (1886 - 1953)
  aka : William Henry Wallis


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 22 Dec 1886

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 2 Dec 1953
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Warwickshire, Birmingham

Workhouse, Western Road
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialUnited States of America, Marin, San Rafael
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 27 Jun 1896
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Corean

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Middlemore
Notes[POSSIBLE MATCH] A birth registration was found for William Henry Wallis: Year of Registration: 1886; Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec; District: Birmingham (1837-1924); County: Warwickshire; Volume: 6d; Page: 212.

Ellen Wallis married Harry (Henry) Alldridge in the March quarter of 1889 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. They had children together both before and after marriage.

Henry Alldridge was a drunk who beat his wife. He died in 1893 in Birmingham aged 32. In November 1894, Ellen placed William Henry and his 2 brothers John Leonard and Francis, and sister Ruth Rebecca, in the Middlemore Children's Home in Birmingham. Notes from the home describe Ellen's plight as dire with no money to feed her 6 starving children. She sold all their possessions and furniture trying to keep the children fed. The children where in rags and infected with lice.

Ellen kept the 2 youngest children with her but then had Arthur Alldridge, an illegitimate child, before she remarried. Ellen died in 1901, aged 38. Her new husband placed the remaining 3 children in the Middlemore Home.

William Henry Aldridge married Lilah Elizabeth Rasmussen in Winnipeg on April 23, 1913.

William Henry and Liliah Elizabeth Rasmussen Al(l)dridge had at least four children: Helen C. Aldridge, born about 1914; James D. Aldridge, born about 1917; William M Aldridge, born about 1923; and Lilah Margurite Aldridge, born July 4, 1925 - died April 5, 1954 in Marin, California.

In 1942, William Henry Aldridge registered for the US Draft. He declared that he resided at 10 Jewel Street, San Rafael, Marin, California; that his telephone number was 1920-J; the he was 55, having been born December 23, 1886; that he was born in Nova Scotia, Canada; that the person who would always know his address was Mrs. Klopstock, 142 Barbara Drive, San Anselmo, California; and that he was employed by PGE in San Rafel, California.

William Henry Al(l)dridge died December 2, 1953 in Marin County, California, USA. Lilah Elizabeth Rasmussen Al(l)dridge died March 8, 1961, in Marin County, California, at the age of 67. 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-01-23 15:26:44 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-12-13 20:34:47 /

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