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Children Gone too soon
This is not a complete list but rather a growing index


For other Home Children deaths not listed here yet, please see
Called Home - obits listed in the Ups and Downs 1895-1903
Our Lost Children


1885 deaths

Hugh McLaren - died September 24 1885 ruled an "accidental death" in Grey County, Ontario, 12 years old, arrived 1879, Quarriers

1897 deaths

Clarence Martin - died March 1897 Suicide by hanging in Binbrook township, Ontario, 21 years of age

1892 deaths

George Kirkham - died June 1892 of drowning
Samuel CUMMINGS - died Aug 31 1901 of Suicide by Paris Green, 10 years old, arrived March 1901, Barnardo's 
Emily White -  died November 21 1901, York, Ontario, of Choloisis,   16 years old. Arrived 1900-10-06, Barnardo's.

1903 deaths

Cecil RATLEY - died July 8 1903, accidently shot himself (Suicide suspected) in Elgin, Ontario, aged 13 years. Arrived May 20 1901 Annie MacPherson. 

1906 deaths

Mabel BELL - died January 30 1906 of Suicide by gunshot,  aged 14 years, arrived June 11 1904, Quarriers
Vincent Shotton -  died Sept 4 1903, drowned, Huntsville, Ontario, aged 13, arrived September 27 1901, Barnardo's

1907 deaths

John Jones - died July 29 1907, Haldimand, Ontario, Suicide by Paris Green, 15 years old

1909 deaths

Herbert Alfred Owens - died April 5 1909 of Gangrene due to severe Frostbite, Macgregor, Manitoba, 13 years old. Arrived October 9 1904, Barnardo's 
George Cornell or Cornall - died April 5 1909, Muskoka, Ontario, Meningitis, 11 years old, arrived March 7 1909, Barnardo's 
William ROWE - died June 12 1909 of heart failure at the Avon Road Macpherson Home in Stratford, Ontario, 12 years old, arrived May 8 1903, Annie MacPherson
Frank Freeman Newman - died through Suicide, in Chatham, Ontario, 15 years old. Arrived March 5 1907 Barnardo's
George F Parks - died August 18 1909 of indigestion, Death certificate states he was a Barnardo child. 11 years old.
Clifford Olser - died Aug 31 1909 of toxic poisoning in Simcoe, Canada. The death record said he was a boy from the Knowlton Home adopted by Mr. Bell.

1910 deaths

Dalton PROUDLOCK - died Sept 20 1910 in Coldwater, Ontario of drowning, 13 years old, arrived July 20 1907, Barnardo's
Jessie SMITH - died October 14 1910 after an operation, 15 years old, arrived Aug 8 1908, Barnardo's

1911 deaths

Charles Goldsmith - died March 7 1911, Portsmouth, Frontenac, Ontario, of Suicide by hanging, 28 years old. Arrived May 2 1886, National Children's Home. 
Arthur Walker  - died May 2 1911, York, Ontario,  of rheumatism , 14 years old, arrived June 10 1910, Barnardo's
Charles Samuel WEBSTER - died May 8 1911, Essex, Ontario, Stroke, 14 years old,  arrived 1908-08-08, Barnardo's
George HADDER - died May 15 1911 of a brain tumor, at the Fegan Home in Toronto,  16 years old. Arrived May 12 1906, Fegan Homes.
George HORNBY - died May 27 1911, Port Hope, Ontario,  drowned, 17 years old. Arrived March 1901, Barnardo's.
Arthur Kitching - died July 13 1911, Ontario of drowning,  14 years old. Arrived August 11 1906, Barnardo's.
James WATSON - died Nov 17 1911, abscess of the brain in Carleton, Ontario, 16 years old, arrived June 3 1906 Barnardo's

1912 deaths

Florence Walker - died Feb 2 1912 at 50 Peter Steet (Barnardo's Home) Toronto, Ontario, Tuberculosis, 14 years old, two Florence Walkers arrived with Barnardo's, unclear which girl died. 
William J CHARNLEY - died April 26 1912, in Grey County, Ontario, of heart failure, 14 years old, arrived June 3 1906, Barnardo's
Mabel May Slater - died June 10 1912,in Welland, Ontario of Typhoid, 13 years old, arrived 1910-08-05, Barnardo's.
Emily RODDEN - died June 24 1912 in Brantford, Ontario of apendix, 17 years old. Arrived May 13 1905, Church of England Waifs & Strays
Albert ADAMS - died July 8 1912 in Toronto, Ontario, drowned, 18 years of age. Arrived May 8 1911 organization unknown. 
James Canrad CARTON - died Sept 10 1912 of Tuberculosis at the Barnardo Home on Peter Street in Toronto, 18 years of age. Arrived March 18 1910, Barnardo's. 
Ethel CROME - died Sept 26 1912 of Mastiditis in Toronto, Ontario, 17 years old, arrived March 11 1911, sending organization unknown.

Rosa Georgena Gilbert - died November 8 1912 of tuberculosis in St. Catherine's Ontario, 14 years old, arrived June 7 1907 with Maria Rye. Remark on the death certificate "A bright young life ended"

Norman George FAIRHEAD - died Dec 30 1912 of typhoid in Simcoe, Ontario, 17 years old. Arrived June 10 1911 organization unknown.

1913 deaths

Fred Richardson - died Feb 1913 gun shot to the temple, not clear if suicide or not at Totogo, Manitoba

Louisa BUTTER - died August 13 1913 in Lincoln, Ontario of Typhoid, 15 years old, arrived 1910-07-29, Annie Macpherson

Albert James AYERS - died Aug 20 1913 in Toronto, Ontario, struck by a train, 14 years old,  arrived Oct 1908, Barnardo's 
Harry Salcombe - died December 2 1913, accidently shot, 17 years old.

1917 deaths

Margaret Healey - died Jul. 25, 1917 through Suicide by drowning in Ottawa, 16 years old, arrived September 29 1912 Catholic Emigration Association

1923 deaths

Charles Thomas BULPITT - died December 22 1923 in Colborne, Ontario, Canada Suicide by hanging, arrived August 4 1923 Liverpool Sheltering Home

1924 deaths

Johnny Frederick William Payne - died January 27 1924 through Suicide by paris green in Toronto Ontario , 16 years of age, arrived March 27 1921, Barnardo's 

1928 deaths

Walter Bryant - died January 26 1928, trampled by horses, 17 years old, arrived 1924, Barnardo's

These Home Children sent to Peterborough 
are buried in  Little Lake Cemetery
 For more information see: The Hazelbrae Memorial
They are linked here to online memorials which contain information on each child to date. 

 Ada Sophia Barker 1878-1896
 Rhoda Griggs 1888-1901
Esther Mary Rondeau 1872 1895
 Louisa Boyle 1877-1894
Alice M Rodgers 1881-1897
 Hetty Hart 1884-1896
 Alice Hartfield 1890-1909
Jane Buddle 1888-1898
Jane Wilson 1891-1902
Eleanor Thomas 1888-1904
Emily Coombe 1888-1908
Isabella Bidwell 1896-1920  
Emily Hilda Thompson 1900-1920
May Dorothy Phillips 1901-1920
Bert Emmerson 1909-1934
Mary Knight 1892-1911
Teresa Knott 1890-1911
Hilda Gertrude Wright 1898-1913
May Brindley - 1892-1913
Lillian Tarrant 1900-1913
Rosina Brockley 1903-1914
Alfred William Pennicard - 1900-1914  
Lena Bates 1901-1914 
Catherine Shaw - 1871-1889
Harriet Sophia Bealey - 1872-1888

Peter Devin 1874-1887
George Beagle 1868-1885
Ellen Robinson 1887-1896
Eliza Pope 1875-1893
Henritta Philamore 1869-1890
Mary Davis 1874-1888
Edith Burrows 1885-1896
Isabella Richards 1873-1889
Elizabeth Birch 1877-1889
Mary Lea Plant - 1895-1907 
Ivy Plant - 1896-1913 
Alice Curtis 1896-1908
Dorothy Hamilton Balfe Tait 1890-1904
 Cissy Lynds 1892-1905
Ellen Louisa Stokes - 1887-1903 
Alice Hastie 1887-1904
Ada Annie Pearch - 1889-1903
Ada  Annie Cobear 1891-1909 
Elizabeth Parker 1892-1903
Agnes Lloyd 1893-1909
Bertha Pickering 1879-1896  

William John Ashworth died August 15 1895 
Agnes Lowe  (died at 104 - buried with her husband Stanley Darling

The St. Georges Memorial in OttawaSt. George's Home Children  memorialized in the 
 Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario
links will take you to their on-line Memorials


Johanna Reilly, died 1915 age 18
Margaret Healey died 1917 age 17
Nellie Lambert, died 1918, age 18
Richard Gardener, died 1919, age 26;
Charles Neale, died 1919, age 17; 
Dorothy Wellington, died 1919, age 19;
Mary Hunter, died 1921, age 14; 
Mary Woodhall, died 1925, age 18;
Doris Evrett, died 1925, age 17;
Honora Wood, died 1926, age 21;
Elizabeth Noon-Cruise, died 1926, age 24;  
S. Winnifred G. Baker, died 1926, age 18; 
Ellen Murphy, died 1928, age 21; 
Elizabeth Onions, died 1929, age 18
William Flannagan, died 1929, age 16
Robert Dowse, died 1909, age 16
Ethel Stone, died 1916, age 16
Mary Kelleher, died 1917, age 24;
Margaret Sparks, died 1924, age 23;
John Berry, died 1929, age 30
Mary King-Sabourin, died 1929, age 33; 
Percy Hyde, died 1932, age 25; 
Florence Deluka, died 1933, age 34.  

Russell, Manitoba - Barnardo Training Farm Memorial
For more information please see Russell, Manitoba Farm

Alf. W.L. Renwick, died May 25, 1896 age 18
George Williams, died Aug 15, 1898, age 23
John Underwood, died March 23, 1903, age 19

The Maria Rye Plot - Niagra-on-the-Lake
For more information please see: Maria Rye

DAVIS, Mary, 16 (died October 12, 1884); 
 KAREY, Ethel, 11 (died June 6, 1888); 
FERRIS, Ada, 15 (died June 16, 1885;
 BAYLEY, Emily, 75 (died December 14,1922),Matron, Western Home;
 RADLEY, Herbert, 2, (died February 13, 1870); 
SCHOFIELD, Elizabeth, 21 (died February 2, 1871); 
NEWBOLD, Caroline, 14 (died August 18, 1873);
 HUTCHINS, Edith, 17 (died June 28, 1873);
 LUCAS, Elizabeth, 16 (died December 21, 1874); 
WARD, Sarah, 12 (died April 8, 1881);
 PORTER, (only the name here and no stone).

There is a Quarrier burial site as well, I do not at  present have a listing of those names.

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