Letters from Maria Rye Children
Sometimes emotional, sometimes humorous, but always endearing, these letters are typed precisely as they are written by Gail Collins, and show us the human side of just some of the amazing British Home Children of Maria Rye.
Rhoda StrugnellSTRUGNELL, Rhoda Ann 12 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26
Jun 5 1871, Mother Living, Fareham Union paid £12 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 8 Buckingham (Quebec) 5th July, 1871. Miss Rye: Dear Madam: It is with much pleasure I write to tell you how very much pleased I am with the little girl Rhoda Strugnell, who has reached me safely. She appears perfectly contented and happy in her home. I wish to thank you most kindly for all the trouble which you may have taken in the matter, and I think I should not have selected a little girl to have pleased me better myself. I am happy to hear that your trip out proved pleasant, and may your mission prove as happy to yourself as I trust it may be to others in training these little orphans to lead lives of usefulness. May God bless you!. Believe me sincerely yours, C S Wilson. Name:Rhoda Strugnell Spouse:Baptist Johnston Event Year:1879 Event:Mariage (Marriage) Religion:Anglican Place of Worship or Institution:Montréal (Anglican Saint James the Apostle) Province:Québec (Quebec) 1881 - Montreal Quebec NameAge Robert Johnston 29 Rhoda Johnston 22 William F. Johnston 6/12 1891 Montreal Quebec Robert Johnston 39 Ireland fireman Rhoda Johnston 31 England William Johnston 10 Que Grace Johnston 8 Que Albert Johnston 4 Que Eliza Johnston 35 sister can't locate after this Harriet MortimerMORTIMER, Harriet 9 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26
Jun 18 1871, St. Georges's Union paid £11, Mother dead, deserted by father 1875 Inspection Report - Buckingham, Mr Pratt, Inspector - Harriet Mortimore, 15, Chelsea Home 1870 (sb 1871), Prot, goes to Church & Sunday School, Buckingham, Co Ottawa, adopted, here 5 years, with John O Smith. This child is remarkably well provided for, is a fair scholar and performs tolerably? well upon the organ, a small sum of money was placed in Bank for her, when of age she has the power to draw it. 1875 Letters from the Province of Quebec Buckingham, P.Q., 12th May, 1875. Miss Maria Rye, Niagara. Dear Friend: Having seen in the Montreal papers several statements about the situations of your children who have been placed in homes all over this county, and particularly the report of Mr Doyle, which from the first I considered a one-sided affair, to gain some personal end - if he had come to this part of the country, I could have shewn him eight that have got as good homes as can be found any where, and they are well fed, clothed and sent to school; and, in fact, I know some that take as good care of them as they would if they were their own. As to the girl, Harriett Mortimer, that I have got, I think that she is a good, kind, affectionate child and a good scholar of her age. She is taking music lessons, and is doing well, and I intend to give here an education, so that she can teach and earn a respectable living for herself when she is old enough. She has written a letter to you, and it is all her own composition. I hope that you will make it in your way to come and see us some time, and judge for yourself. Hoping that you will succeed in your good work, and put to silence those who have tried to injure you, with much respect. I remain, Your friend and well-wisher John O Smith (could be) can't locate anything after this 1881 Census - Brighton, Northumberland East, Ontario Harriet Mortimer Age: 19 Birth Year: 1862 Birthplace: England Religion: Church of England Occupation: Music Teacher James H. King 34 Ont Elisa King 24 Ont wife Harriet Mortimer 19 England Eliza NicholsonNICHOLSON, Eliza 12 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26 Jun 5 1871, Orphan, Fareham Union paid £12 1875 Letters -What the People say about the Children - pg 6/7 Newcastle, Ontario, Canada, July 4th, 1871. Mr P Taplin, Fareham, England Sir: In the "Hampshire Telgraph' of the 3rd ult., I notice your letter respecting two girls brought to Canada by Miss Rye on her return from her last visit to England. As I take a warm interest in that lady's laudable undertaking, permit me to address you on the subject. I have succeeded in securing eligible homes for a considerable number of the children, amongst whom are Alice and Mary Churcher, and another girl from your Union, Eliza Nicholson; it was certainly a fortunate occurrence when Miss Rye visited Fareham, as Mary Churcher and Eliza Nicholson are both adopted, the former into the family of a lady in easy circumstances, the latter into that of an independent gentleman, whose only daughter died some years since; both families reside in this village. And Alice Churcher is placed as a domestic in the house of an independent farmer residing within one and a half miles. I have been intimately acquainted with each of the families for more than twenty years, and am quite satisfied that the children put in their charge will receive proper treatment. The girls will have frequent opportunities to see each other: The two sisters were together on Saturday last, and called at my house, and thanked me for the interest I had taken in their behalf, and appeared to be perfectly happy and contented with their lot. More than half of the children for whom I have secured homes are adopted, principally into the homes of persons of middle age, whose own families have married, and who now wish to have a young person in the house with them; others again by persons without family. As the advantages to the girls thus brought to Canada may not be property understood in your part of England, and the information I am in a position to give may be satisfactory to their friends, should you deem it advisable, you are quite at liberty to establish this communication. Respectfully yours, John J Robson, Reeve of Newcastle, Co Durham, Ontario. P.S. - I find since writing that three other girls from your Union are placed in this village, viz., two Goddards and Mary Ann Cole, the latter with Rev Mr Brent, rector of this parish. J J Robson What the People say about the Children - pg 7 In connection with the above communication I can fully corroborate all the above statements made by Mr. Robson. The present position of all the children left here by Miss Rye is in every respect greatly superior to that which they could hope to attain in England. Henry Brent, M.A. Rector of Clarke. 1875 Inspection Report - New Castle Centre, John Robson, Inspector, 18, born Fareham, Fareham Workhouse 1871, CE, goes to Church, with Mr Birch, Orono, not adopted, usual terms, here 4½ years, housework. A good girl out of her time, just removed to Mr Gregory, New Castle. Mary GoddardGODDARD, Mary 11 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26 Jun 5 1871, Orphan, Fareham Union paid £12 1875 Letters -What the People say about the Children - pg 6/7 Newcastle, Ontario, Canada, July 4th, 1871. Mr P Taplin, Fareham, England Sir: In the "Hampshire Telgraph' of the 3rd ult., I notice your letter respecting two girls brought to Canada by Miss Rye on her return from her last visit to England. As I take a warm interest in that lady's laudable undertaking, permit me to address you on the subject. I have succeeded in securing eligible homes for a considerable number of the children, amongst whom are Alice and Mary Churcher, and another girl from your Union, Eliza Nicholson; it was certainly a fortunate occurrence when Miss Rye visited Fareham, as Mary Churcher and Eliza Nicholson are both adopted, the former into the family of a lady in easy circumstances, the latter into that of an independent gentleman, whose only daughter died some years since; both families reside in this village. And Alice Churcher is placed as a domestic in the house of an independent farmer residing within one and a half miles. I have been intimately acquainted with each of the families for more than twenty years, and am quite satisfied that the children put in their charge will receive proper treatment. The girls will have frequent opportunities to see each other: The two sisters were together on Saturday last, and called at my house, and thanked me for the interest I had taken in their behalf, and appeared to be perfectly happy and contented with their lot. More than half of the children for whom I have secured homes are adopted, principally into the homes of persons of middle age, whose own families have married, and who now wish to have a young person in the house with them; others again by persons without family. As the advantages to the girls thus brought to Canada may not be property understood in your part of England, and the information I am in a position to give may be satisfactory to their friends, should you deem it advisable, you are quite at liberty to establish this communication. Respectfully yours, John J Robson, Reeve of Newcastle, Co Durham, Ontario. P.S. I find since writing that three other girls from your Union are placed in this village, viz., two Goddards and Mary Ann Cole, the latter with Rev Mr Brent, rector of this parish. J J Robson What the People say about the Children - pg 7 In connection with the above communication I can fully corroborate all the above statements made by Mr. Robson. The present position of all the children left here by Miss Rye is in every respect greatly superior to that which they could hope to attain in England. Henry Brent, M.A. Rector of Clarke. 1875 Inspection Report - Newcastle Centre, John Robson, Inspector - Mary Goddard, 16, born Fareham, Fareham Workhouse 1871, Pres, goes to Church, with John Gibson, Orono, not adopted, usual terms, here 1 year, former employer H. Foster, left because unmanageable, one other placement, A good home said to be very hard to manage, bad temper, etc. Mary Jane ChurcherCHURCHER, Mary Jane 10 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26 Jun 5 1871, Orphan, Fareham Union paid £12 1875 Letters -What the People say about the Children - pg 6/7 Newcastle, Ontario, Canada, July 4th, 1871. Mr P Taplin, Fareham, England Sir: In the "Hampshire Telgraph' of the 3rd ult., I notice your letter respecting two girls brought to Canada by Miss Rye on her return from her last visit to England. As I take a warm interest in that lady's laudable undertaking, permit me to address you on the subject. I have succeeded in securing eligible homes for a considerable number of the children, amongst whom are Alice and Mary Churcher, and another girl from your Union, Eliza Nicholson; it was certainly a fortunate occurrence when Miss Rye visited Fareham, as Mary Churcher and Eliza Nicholson are both adopted, the former into the family of a lady in easy circumstances, the latter into that of an independent gentleman, whose only daughter died some years since; both families reside in this village. And Alice Churcher is placed as a domestic in the house of an independent farmer residing within one and a half miles. I have been intimately acquainted with each of the families for more than twenty years, and am quite satisfied that the children put in their charge will receive proper treatment. The girls will have frequent opportunities to see each other: The two sisters were together on Saturday last, and called at my house, and thanked me for the interest I had taken in their behalf, and appeared to be perfectly happy and contented with their lot. More than half of the children for whom I have secured homes are adopted, principally into the homes of persons of middle age, whose own families have married, and who now wish to have a young person in the house with them; others again by persons without family. As the advantages to the girls thus brought to Canada may not be property understood in your part of England, and the information I am in a position to give may be satisfactory to their friends, should you deem it advisable, you are quite at liberty to establish this communication. Respectfully yours, John J Robson, Reeve of Newcastle, Co Durham, Ontario. P.S. - I find since writing that three other girls from your Union are placed in this village, viz., two Goddards and Mary Ann Cole, the latter with Rev Mr Brent, rector of this parish. J J Robson (Inspector for Newcastle) What the People say about the Children - pg 7 In connection with the above communication I can fully corroborate all the above statements made by Mr. Robson. The present position of all the children left here by Miss Rye is in every respect greatly superior to that which they could hope to attain in England. Henry Brent, M.A. Rector of Clarke. (See letter from Fareham to Emily Boys dated 2 Oct 1871 - could be brother - "sailed 7 Sep for Belleville with 6 more boys in the care of Miss Macpherson. These are those who went A Lewis (Adolphus), C Lee, W Parsons, G Goddard, W Churcher, A Cooper and A Baker." 1875 Inspection Report - New Castle Centre, John Robson, Inspector, 15, born Fareham E, workhouse yes, 1871, M, goes to Church & Sunday School, with E C Bennen, New Castle, adopted, clothing & care, here 2 years, housework, former employer Mrs Stogen?, New Castle, why left - no fault. Well liked and good child and well treated. 1881 Census - Mary CHURCHER, 19, Eng, M Meth, with Edwin BENNEN, farmer, Clarke Township, Durham County, C4, pg 2. LAC 13242. Canada Marriages about Samuel Graydon Birth Place: To of Cavair Ont Age: 29 Estimated birth year: abt 1858 ? Father Name: Saml Graydon Mother Name: Harrietta Graydon Spouse Name: Mary Chruches Spouse's Age: 26 Spouse Birth Place: Fareham Eng Spouse Father Name: Charles Chruches Spouse Mother Name: Mary Chruches Marriage Date: 26 Oct 1887 Marriage Location: York 2 children Graydon Stillborn 6 Dec 1888 Male York Samuel Graydon Mary Churcher Emma Mary Henrietta Graydon 15 Jun 1890 Female York Samuel Graydon Mary Churcher 1901 Census of Canada - moved to Manitoba about Mary Graydon Age: 39 Birth Day & Month: 10 Jun Birth Year: 1862 Birthplace: England Relation to Head of House: Wife Immigration Year: 1873 Religion: Episcopalian Manitoba - District: Provencher Franklin - Sub-District Number: C-3 Samuel Graydon 42 Mary Graydon 39 Emma M Graydon 10 Thos R Graydon 8 Alice P Graydon 6 E Sam'l Graydon 4 Adam M Graydon 1 1906 Canada Census of Manitoba about M S Graydon Marital Status: Widowed Age: 45 Birthplace: England Relation to Head of House: Head Immigration Year: 1892 M S Graydon 45 Thomas Graydon 13 Alice Graydon 12 Edwin Graydon 10 LAST NAME: GRAYDON, SAMUEL DATE OF DEATH: 10/12/1903 AGE: 45 PLACE OF DEATH: WPG REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1903,004363 REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1903,004429 (2 reg'n numbers given: NAME: GRAYDON, MARY JANE DATE OF DEATH: 05/08/1927 AGE: 64 PLACE OF DEATH: ST B REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1927,039032 Emma GardnerGARDNER, Emma 13 F SS Prussian 1871 - July 28 - Aug 7 July 19 1871, Orphan, Portsea Island Union paid £12 1875 Inspection Report - Chatham Centre, E Scane & Mr McCrea, Inspectors, Port Sea Island Workhouse 1871, with W Graydon, Ex Mayor, London 1875 Inspection Report - London Centre, 17, Portsea Island, CE, goes to Church, with Wm Grayden, Ex Mayor, London, usual terms $3 a month, here 4 years, housework. In a good place and well liked. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario London, Ont., 6th May, 1875. My Dear Miss Rye: I beg to enclose a photograph of Emma Gardner, a little girl who came as a servant to my house from the Home at Niagara about three years ago. She has got on remarkably well, and seems perfectly happy and contented. Beyond a lecture now and again, to improve her memory, she has never required to be spoken to. She takes a pride in being well clothed, and the dress she appears in her photograph has been all paid for out of her wages, and selected by herself. All my friends who obtained girls from your Home have had great satisfaction in the selection, and I believe those girls, as well as Emma Gardner, fully realize the great advantage they have received by coming to Canada. I saw in the newspapers what purports to have been a statement made by a Mr Doyle, in connection with children placed in Canada through your energies, and I must say that I consider his statements not based on facts; and certainly I never heard of his making any enquirers in this locality, or through any of my friends who got girls from your Home. Wishing you much happiness and prosperity in your laudable and Christian undertaking, I remain, Yours very sincerely, Simpson H Graydon, Late Mayor of London. MARRIAGE: Emma Gardner Birth Place: England Age: 23 abt 1860 Father Name: Robert Gardner Mother Name: Emma Gardner Spouse Name: George Guymer Spouse's Age: 22 Spouse Birth Place: England Spouse Father Name: James Guymer Spouse Mother Name: Harriet Guymer Marriage Date: 9 Jul 1883 Marriage Location: Middlesex 1901 Census London City Emma Guymer Age: 40 1 Aug 1860 Birthplace: England - Church Of England George Guymer 39 England 16 Sep 1861 Imm 1873 Emma Guymer 40 England George A Guymer 16 Emma L Guymer 14 Edwin J. Guymer 12 Eva L Guymer 10 Percy W. Guymer 7 Elsie F. Guymer 5 Enid E. Guymer 1 Ethel M Guymer 44 1911 Census - London City, Mdx Cty Emma Gayner Age: 50 Aug 1860 Birthplace: England Immigration Year: 1871 589 Adelaide St George Gayner 49 Emma Gayner 50 Emma L Gayner 25 Perey W Gayner 18 Elace E Gayner 15 George Guymer Death Date: 30 Aug 1930 Death Location: Middlesex Age: 68 abt 1862 Birth Location: England Woodland Cemetery GUYMER, Emma, Woodland, London Middlesex London GUYMER, George Emma FroudFROUD, Emma Louisa 10 F SS Nestorian 1871 Oct 24 - Nov 10
1871 Census - England - Old Windsor Workhouse - England Emma Froud 10, Orphan ,born Egham, Surrey Alice Froud, 6 born Egham, (came on the June 1874 Sarmation with Maria Rye) Sep 22 1871, Orphan, Windsor Union paid £13.37 1878 Rye Report - #478-10, Co Oxford, stet 1881 Census - Norwich South, Oxford South, Ont, FHL 1375903, LAC 13267, Dist 165, SubDist C, Div 1, Pg 36 Philona SNELL, W, 70, USA, E. Methodist Emma SNELL, 19, Ontario, E. Methodist 1893 Annual Peckham Report - letter This girl was 20 years with one family, but husband & wife are now both dead. Norwich, Ontario, February 22nd 1894 - Miss Maria S. Rye My beloved Friend: I feel as if it were right for me to pen a few lines to let you know how I am getting along, but I believe it will almost be impossible for me to do so, as I hardly know myself. I have changed my place since I last wrote to you, am now with an aged lady and her little grandson; she is a widow, quite sickly, she is a very strange person. I do not know if I will remain with her or not. A Baptist minister at Port Dover wants me - believe it would be a good home by what I hear. If it were not for W. I should have accepted the home in the States; have regretted it many times, but I do not have much to do with them any more, as they do not use me as they should, so I am to get along best I can. I am not alone, I have a father above, He is my rock and my salvation, my Saviour and friend. I pray to Him many times a day. My health is very good indeed, it never were so good before. I am truly thankful; have not taken doctor's medicine for over a year. I do not hear from England very often. I feel very uneasy, but hope to see a letter soon. I made a visit to dear, dear Grandpa's grave just before Winter sat in - the poor dear man, it seemed to me that he is quite forgotten by his sons, his grave not fixed at all. I am going to send to Toronto for something for it. I was taken quite ill while there, but had a companion; with her kind help got home, but did not feel well for some days. Our Winter has been very mild till this month, it is very cold, so many complains of the hard times; but we are wonderfully cared for, we should not murmur. Dear friend, will you please write to me when time permits your doing so, for I shall be happy to hear from you again. I am just going to prayer meeting, will post this on my way there. We have a new minister, his name is Mr N. We like him much, but it was indeed hard to part with Mr K. And now, dear friend, I trust you may forgive this writing and mistakes, as there is quite a noise here it bothers me, hoping this may find you well. I remain, your loving friend E.L.F. Dave Cooper, ist Administrator - Dave's ancestor is Alice Froud, sister of Emma, who came on the 1874 Sarmation with Maria Rye. Birth Registration - Emma Louisa Froud, registration district Windsor, March 1862 quarter, vol 2c page 414 Birthday - December 16, 1861, Portnall, Egham, Surrey. Father - Charles Froud, Mother - Mary Brooker. Marriage Registration #11252 - 1897, William Samuel Avey, age 26 of Norwich, Ontario, born Berkshire, England, bachelor, broom maker, parents James Avey and Nancy Todd married Emma Louise Froud, aged 30 of Norwich, Ontario, born England, parents Charles Froud and Mary Brooker. Wit: Ida Newton and Carl D. Newton. Marriage was 26 May 1897 in Baptist Parsonage, Village of Norwich by Rev. J. Miller, Presbyterian Minister. Bride and Groom were Baptist. Sam Avey was born in ASHLEY, Cambridgeshire, England (Sampson William Avey). He and Emma only had two children, Hannah Louisa b. October 24, 1900, stillborn and Alice Beatrice b. September 11, 1902, d. March 12, 1981. They are both buried with their mother and father and their grandfather and grandmother Avey in Norwich Cemetery. Agnes RankinRANKIN, Agnes 9 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25
Inspection Report - Niagara Centre, Robert Ball & Arch Deacon McMurray, Inspectors, 15, Kirkale Workhouse, 1870, CE, doesn't go to Church or Sunday School, with Mr Rich'd Allen, Niagara, not adopted, wages by clothing, here 3 mo, housework. This poor girl has been in a number of places before, is subject to fits. She is well cared for where she is! Court Case following article names the girl, there is also a reference to surviving records relating to this case. Charles Camidge was former principal of the Grantham Academy, later ran his own school in St. Catharines, still later ran a school in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and ultimately ended up committing suicide in 1895. He was also Justice of Peace. Daily Times (St. Catharines), November 10, 1875, CHARLES CAMIDGE, HIS WIFE, AND THE RYE GIRL WHO WAS THEIR SERVANT p. 2: Charles Camidge and wife have been charged in Niagara with abusing one of Miss Rye s orphans. Trial is ongoing. Girl said to be frequently whipped and disgracefully dressed. Daily Times (St. Catharines), November 16, 1875, p. 3: Magistrates decide against Charles Camidge and wife, proprietor of the York Academy, against their servant Agnes Rankin, for misuse, cruelty, and ill treatment, trial will take place at the next quarter sessions of the county. Justices Clement and Winterbottom considered the proof so evident they should go to a court with great jurisdiction to punish. Archives of Ontario (Toronto) 1875: -RG 22, Lincoln County/Niagara North: Box 139, file 36-37: Charles Camidge, assault. Elizabeth Camidge, also assault -- his wife [c. 1875] Another trial reference at Ont Archives - MS 847 Reel 10, RG 11-8-1 Ref: 5630. Death: CAMIDGE, Charles, m, 28 July 1895, 71 years, b. England, , suicide, school teacher, infm - J.W. Curtis, Niagara, comments - no inquest held,coroner not considering any necessary, Niagara (Lincoln) 010100-95 1881 census - Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario Annie MAITHESON, 38, Quebec, Mattron, C. Presbyterian Rebecca LOCK, 32, Esse. Mattron, C. Methodist Agnes RANKIN, 19, England, C. Presbyterian Marriage - Agnes Rankin Birth Lanarkshire Scotland Age: 24 Estimated birth year: abt 1864 Father Name: Robert Rankin Mother Name: Agnes Rankin Spouse Name: Albert Wells Spouse's Age: 27 Spouse Birth Place: Cornwall England Spouse Father Name: William Lathiar Wells Spouse Mother Name: Sarah Wells Marriage Date: 31 Dec 1888 Marriage Location: York 1891 Census Toronto City Albert Wells 28 Agnas Wells 26 Married 26 1865 Scotland 1901 Census Toronto Toronto West City Albert Wells 36 Agnes Wells 34 Agnes Wells Married Age: 34 27 Feb 1867 Scotland Imm 1878 Agnes S Wells 10 Birth - Agnes Stevenson Wells 18 Jun 1890 York Albert Wells Agnes Rankin 1911 Census Toronto York Cty Albert E Wells 43 England Agnes Wells 43 Scotland Angus A Wells 19 1871 Scotland Census this confirms that Agnes parents are Robert/Agnes Hellen Stevenson is her grandmother on her mother's side Agnes names 1st dau Agnes Stephenson Wells Agnes Rankin Age: 7 : abt 1864 Relationship: Daughter Father's Name: Robert Mother's Name: Agnes born: Cathcart, Renfrewshire Registration district: Cathcart County: Renfrewshire Address: Pow Kennal Occupation: Scholar Robert Rankin 40 Agnes Rankin 37 Robert Rankin 15 Hellen Rankin 13 Margarett Rankin 11 John S Rankin 9 Agnes Rankin 7 Archibald C Rankin 5 Jean B C Rankin 3 Janet S Rankin 10 mo Hellen Stevenston 76 Agnes Walls Death Date: 21 Jul 1918 Death Location: York Age: 57 Estimated birth year: abt 1861 Birth Location: Scotland Caroline & Selina NewboldNEWBOLD, Selina 13 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25
1871 Census - NEWBOLD, SALINA, 13, England, with William JEFFREY, Merchant, St. Catharines, Lincoln County. (Mentioned in letter from Annie McMaster to Miss Rye, probably dated late 1870, early 1871.) "There is a lot of the girls live near me, and two of them goes to the presbyterian Sunday school, those two girls that lives with the two Mrs’s Jeffries, Selina Newbold and Mary E McCabe, they are in the same school as I am, and in the same class. (These girls all came on the same ship.) What the Children Say About Canada - Kirkdale - pg 44-45\St. Catherin’s, Feb. 14th. Dear Miss Rye: I write these few lines to you to ask you would you please tell me where my sisters is, for if you would much a blaise to you, inded. Dear Miss Rye, would you tell me were Jane Tatlock is, and how she his, for I like to know, and Mary E McCabe and Annie McMaster send there kind love to you, and I ham verry glad that you got me such a good place, for I very happle inded, and I would like to see my sister if I could get to see her, but I don’t think I could. Dear Miss Rye, are you quite well, for I like to know, becaurd I heard that you was very sick inded, and are you quite well now? I hope you are. Dear Miss Rye, have you brote any more out of our school, for if you have would you tell me, for I like to know very much inded, so I have no more times write any more, so this is all I write. So no more from Your afectanet Scoolar, Selina Newbold. So good night and god blest you. (All the girls mentioned in Selina’s letter came on the same ship.) 1878 Rye Report - #114 returned to England Marriage - 15 February 1880 at the Church of St.Nicholas, Parish of Liverpool, Cdunty of Lancaster. To Abram Hurstfield, bachelor, age 24, Machine man. His father was Jacob Hurstfield (a Dentist). Selina is shown as age 23, spinster, her father was Joseph Newbold, (a Cart Owner). Both Selina and Abram are shown as residing on St.James Street. 1881 Census England - 33 Rose Vale, Everton, Lancashire, FHL 1341876, TNA Ref RG11 Piece 3658, Folio 99, Page 38 Abram HURSTFIELD, 25, Liverpool, Head, Machine Driller At Foundry (E&M) Seliana HURSTFIELD, 23, Liverpool,Wife, Shop Keeper Florance H. HURSTFIELD, 4 m, Liverpool, Dau NEWBOLD, Caroline 11 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 1871 Census - NEWBALD, CAROLINE, 11, England, with John WALKER, farmer, Clinton Twp., Lincoln County 1878 Rye Report -#90 (Cath? Newbold) died St Marks Anglican Church Cemetery - Caroline Newbold died 18 Aug 1873 at 14 years of age and is buried at St Marks Anglican Church Cemetery, Niagara-on- the-Lake, Ontario. Caroline Newbold 14 died of Typhoid Fever Aug 1873. Richard Taylor of Niagara-Lake has Caroline’s trunk Annie LyonsAnnie Lyons 5 SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 What the People Say About The Children - pg 17 Port Newcastle, August 9th, 1870. My Dear Miss Rye: Your Annie Lysons arrived here safely last night, and I heartily wish that you could have seen what a kind, motherly reception she met with from Mrs. Rowland. She kissed her, and told her that she was her mamma, and that the two little boys by her side were her brothers, and, strange to say, she looks very much like them. Mrs Rowland told me that she had thought a great deal about her lately, and that she hoped that England, would be given her to carry out all her good intentions concerning her. But I am trespassing on your valuable time. Yours very truly, Phebe Robson. (Phebe is the wife of John Robson, Inspector for Newcastle) What the People Say About The Children - pg 20 Newcastle, Ont., 21st Dec., 1870 Western Home, Niagara Dear Madam: I inclose 1 dollar 50 cents, the amount of your expenses in connection with the little girl Annie Lyons. Will you please excuse my negligence in the matter, which was caused by your letter arriving during my absence at Fort William, and it was laid on one side and forgotten. Mrs. Rowland brought her over a short time since for Mrs. Robson to see, and we were much pleased by the care and kindness the child evidently receives. They have two little boys, and they are taught to call each other brother and sister, and I think she receives the same treatment in every way as one of their own. She appeared quite happy and contented. I had an application yesterday from Mrs Rowland's brother for another of your little charges. His name is Stutt, and he lives about five miles from here, is a member of the Church of England, is a farmer, and I think a person who would properly care for a child. His wife I do not know. He would like a little girl about nine years of age. If you have any left would you have the kindness to write me, and if so, please at the same time to inclose the necessary papers. Very respectfully yours, John J. Robson. (Mary Ann Law who came on the 1870 Peruvian was placed with Mr Stutt) 1871 Census - LYONS, ANN, 5, England, W. Meth, with James ROWLAND, farmer, Clarke Twp., Durham County 1875 Inspection Report - New Castle Centre, John Robson, Sr, Inspector, 11, born London, came 1871, MC, goes to Church and Day School, with J Rowland, New Castle, adopted, usual terms, here 4 years, housework. A find hearty girl, well cared for and in a good position. 1881 Census - Annie LYON, 18 England, C Meth, servant, with Wm B CHISHOLM, manufacturer, Oakville, Halton County Charlotte LampinCharlotte, Lampin 10 SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 July 9 1870 Bristol City Union paid £11 - TNA ref MH12/3871 & 3872 What the Children Say About the People - pg 35 To Mrs Greatorex, Matron, Bristol Union Workhouse. August 5th, 1870. We all got over the ocean very safe, and we did not have one storm, and I were sick for one day. I like it very well. As we were coming over we had very good food - more than we wanted. We had for Sunday tea and bread and butter for breakfast, and for dinner plum-pudding and roast meat and potatoes and bread. Please recommend my brother to Miss Rye, and please give him my kind love, and will you tell him not to fret about me? I have a very good home and a very good mistress, and I think if he come I shall be waiting for him, and there will be lots of ladies and gentlemen. Please give my kind love to ... and .... and to Miss ... and to the nurse of the infants, and receive the same yourself. I hope the next letter will be a little better. I was a shame to send this paper, only I remembered it would be waste of paper. Charlotte Lampin. (Brother James Lampin, 14, from Bristol (TNA ref MH12/3872) came on the Prussian, July 1871 with Annie Macpherson.) 1871 Census - LAMPKIN, Charlotte, 10, England, with George BALL, County Treasurer, St. Catharines, Lincoln County. 1875 Inspection Report - Drummondville Centre, Mrs Pew, Inspector, 16, Bristol Workhouse 1870, MC, goes to Church and Sunday School, with Mrs Henry Woodruffe, St Davids, not adopted, paid $3 by month, here 5 years, housework. Good home, well liked, strong healthy girl. Charlote Lampell (was spelt this way on the actualregistration) Birth Place: Bristol England Age:18 Estimated birth year:abt 1859 Father & Mother unkownl Spouse Nameliver Aug Stewart Spouse's Age:22 Spouse Birth Place:St Davids Ont Spouse Father Name:William Stewart Spouse Mother Name:Sarah Stewart Marriage Date:22 Aug 1877 Marriage Location:Welland Remarks: parents died in infancy, she does not remember their names Mary Emily Stewart Date of Birth:1 Dec 1878 Gender:Female Birth County:Lincoln Father's Nameliver Stewart - Mother's Name:Charlotte Lampin I cannot locate the family after this I could not locate her brother James Lampin in any census (Can and US) Charlotte and Mary JamesCharlotte JAMES, 8 SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 (Sister of Mary James- SEE BELOW) What the People Say About The Children - pg 21} Thorold Village, 14th Sep 1870 Madam: We are very well pleased with Charlotte James, the little girl we got from you. She seems well satisfied to stay with us. She tell s us she has a sister living with a farmer, but does not know where. If you would send me the farmer's address the girl lives with, I would let her know where Charlotte is stopping. Charlotte says she thinks she will never forget you and Miss Hallowell. She says she has brother and sisters and an aunt at home. Should any of them write me, I will be happy to give them any information about her they may desire. I am, your obedient servant, William Ramsay. 1871 Census - JAMES, CHAROLT, 8, England, with William RAMSAY, market clerk, Thorold Vil, Welland County. 1875 Inspection Report - St. Catharines Centre, Rev G Burson, Inspector, Rev Burson, Inspector, 12, London 1870, PC, goes to Church and Sunday School, with James Munro, Thorold, adopted, usual terms, here 5 years, housework. Well cared for in a good home and a fine sharp girl. (COULD BE CHARLOTTE - she might have moved to US if sister also was there) 1880 United States Federal Census Charlotte James - Home in 1880: Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey Age: 19 Estimated birth year: abt 1861 Birthplace: England Father's birthplace: England - Mother's birthplace: England Occupation: Servant David H. Chatfield 46 Jule E. Chatfield 47 Olive Chatfield 16 Henry S. Chatfield 14 Maggie Boyle 28 Charlotte James 19 Michael Quinn 18 ********************************** JAMES, Mary 14 SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 1878 Report - #159-30, United States (see letter from Charlotte James guardian Mr Ramsay "She tells us she has a sister living with a farmer, but does not know where. If you would send me the farmer's address the girl lives with, I would let her know where Charlotte is stopping." (COULD BE MARY JAMES) 1880 United States Federal Census Mary James - Home in 1880: Ossining, Westchester, New York Age: 25 Estimated birth year: abt 1855 - Birthplace: England Father's birthplace: England - Mother's birthplace: England Occupation: Servant Chs. W. Woolsey 40 Arrixine Woolsey 36 Chs. Howl. Woolsey 12 Alice Woolsey 3 Mary Hayes 35 Sarah Boyd 20 Mary James 25 James Doyle 24 Jane CannerCANNER, Jane Ellen12 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 July 6 1870 - Chichester Union paid £12 What the Children Say about the People - pg 32 Vernonville, Ontario, Jan 2 1871 (Vernonville is in Northumberland County) My Dear Miss Rye: I hope you are quite well, as I am myself, and I hope that all the children are quite well and that Miss Allaways cough is better. I was in a very pretty pickle, I almost lost my way, the conductor of the train said that you ought to have written a letter for to give to him when I got to Toronto. I had no check, so a policeman said that i must stay there, but an Englishman came and read the paper on my jacket, and he asked me if i was one of your girls, and i said yes, so he said he would pay for me, he was in the same ship as were - the ss Prussian, his name was Mr Harrison, he said he knew you. I have to write a letter to him. I am in my place all night, and a nice place it is. I am very thankful, Miss Rye, for you getting me that place, I don't think that I could have a better place, for they are all so kind to us. Walter helps to milk the cows, and when you goes out again I hope you will have a good passage by the mighty power of God. I hope you are all quite well. may god bless you all until the day of your death. I remain, yours truly JANE CANNER What the People Say About The Children - pg 23 February 19th, 1871 Dear Miss Rye: I received your kind letter respecting Miss Caurn (I think that is her name). I was only too happy to have the power to do what I did. At first I felt some doubts as to whether it was a kindness to these children to bring them to this hard country to be sent out to places in that way, but as the little heart forgot its sorrows and tears, and we found how intelligent and appreciative she was, and then again afterwards found that she had got to such a nice home, and found everything so pleasant and happy,it left no doubt about the matter that of all the noble works in which you have spent yourself this is the best and greatest. I have had a very nice letter from Jane, and I must tender you my humble thanks for the pleasure and interest excited by the incident referred to. I felt, indeed, so much attached to the girl, and so did my wife, that had the girl not had a clearly defined destination we should have brought her forward to Montreal. It will give me a very great interest in seeing the Institution to which you are so tenderly bound should I have the pleasure of seeing Niagara this summer. I was down at Nottingham this last summer, and heard a very favourable account of Mary Wilson, who you may remember went out to the States some time ago. She is now quite well to-do, and may trace it all to your good offices on her behalf. Accept my kind acknowledgment of your favour, and believe me, As ever, yours sincerely, J H Harrison, Montreal (Mentioned in 2 letters from Annie McMaster (1) "Jane Cannor has been in two places, and has left them both, the last place she went to was very near the next street to me." (Annie was with Mrs Gourley in St. Catharines, both girls came on the same ship)(2) "Jane Conner is gone back again, I am very sorry, because she was very near me, but I hope the next time she is put into a good and comfortable place as this was from which she is gone away, she will stay." 1871 Census - CANNER, JANE, 14, England, District 54, Subdist C, Div 2, Pg 18. Haldimand Twp., Northumberland County. LAC 9983. 1878 Report - #128-27, lost sight of, 21 years old 1878 Annual Peckham Report - Letter #5 - The next is from a Chichester workhouse girl, who also left England in 1870, and is one of my ''missing" girls of my Blue Book. Wicklow, Ontario, March 4, 1878. (Wicklow is in Northumberland County)Dear Miss Rye: Hoping to find you quite well, I write these few lines to you, but I am almost ashamed to, as I have not written these many years, but I feel as though I must. You will think me a very naughty girl for acting so wrong, (*Removing herself from the situation in which I placed her, and not letting me know where she went.) Please forgive me, but I have always been glad that I went to another place. I have been living with a lady and gentleman over four years, and am very happy. Thinking that you may like to know what I am about, I will tell you the lady I am livng with is a music-teacher, and she fitted me to teach. I have one pupil, just to see how I like it. Also that I am going to school to get a better education before going off to teach, and thought I would not write until I had something to write about. The best of all is that I have made my peace with my Saviour. We may have all other accomplishments, but if we have not the peace of God in our hearts we are but miserable creatures after all. I should very much like to come and pay you a visit, but cannot at the present. How are you all? Are you bringing out any more children now? I wish I had my photograph for you. Please send me one of yours if you have one. Dear Miss Rye, please do write, for I want to hear from you. So being busy I must close. Good-bye, and a good kiss for you from, JENNIE CANNER Alice YoungYOUNG, Alice 7 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 July 6 1870 Chichester Union paid £12 (sister of Jessie Young, 10, with Dr Hill, St Catharines & Ellen Young, 12 in Pickering, On) 1871 Census - Alice ADSON, 9, England, W Meth, with Francis ADSON, Dist 9, Subdist C6, pg 48, London Township, Middlesex County. LAC 9905. 1875 Inspection Report - London Centre, Capt Whitehead (now in England, ) & Mr G Sutherland, Inspectors, 14, Chichester Workhouse, Gospel Hall, goes to Sunday School, with Francis Adson, London, adopted, here 5 years. In a comfortable home likes it much, ? very fond of her. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario London, Ont., April 4th, 1874. Dear Madam: In reply to your note of 22nd ult., I send you enclosed a photograph of the little girl I took from you five years ago, and would beg to remark that she was a delicate child, sitting in a chair, her head would scarcely reach the top. She stated she had been pushed down stairs and her collar-bone broken, kicked out of bed and her arm broken, and that they gave her cod liver oil a long time. Now you will be able to judge the difference from her appearance at the present time, and as Mr Doyle remarks about the treatment of the children as a whole they are treated far superior to what they are in any England poorhouse. There may be isolated cases, I know, but, as a general thing, they are well cared for. The child I have, hardly knew what a potato was when she was there, and she calls the soup they had, skilley - weak mutton broth, I suppose. And such dumplings! This is her description of the food they had. I only have to say, for the benefit of the Poor Law Guardians, that my dogs have more good, fresh meat than any poorhouse child ever had. I know a little about poor-houses, from my father’s duties in parochial affairs. I am, dear Madam, Yours respectfully, Frances Adson. P.S. You are at liberty to use this as you may wish. 1881 Census -Alice Young, 19 with Francis & Margaret Adson family in London East, Middlesex East, Ontario as a seamstress. Julia TurnerTURNER, Julia 14 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 July 9 1870 Bristol City Union paid �11 TNA ref MH12/3871 & 3872 (sister of Catherine Turner, 11) 1871 Census - TURNER, JULIA, 15, England, with John HAGAR, Farmer, Thorold Twp. Welland County, District 19, Subdist H, Div 1, Pg 15. LAC 9920. 1875 Inspection Report - St. Catharines Centre, Rev G Burson, Inspector, listed twice (1) Bristol Workhouse, 1870, with Jonathan Hagar, Thorold. (2) 16, MC, goes to Church & Sunday School, with Jonathan Hagar, Welland, not adopted, ususal terms, here 6 years, housework. Note - this girl has saved $70 to date. This is a valuable girl in a fine home, well liked. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Welland, 31st March, 1875. My Dear Miss Rye: It is with mingled feelings of surprise and regret that I have lately read in the Toronto Globe, Mr Doyle’s very remarkable report of the treatment, and management of the poor children brought out to this country by yourself and others. It certainly is at variance with what I have seen and know relative to these children. - of what they were and of what they are, at the present time. As you are aware, Mrs Hagar has two of them. There are two other girls near here, both looking very well. The elder Julia Turner, is a fine stout girl. Her time is out. She prefers to remain with her mistress under wages. The second, Lizzie Liberty, is also a fine healthy girl, and is doing finely, has a good place. All of these live with religious families, and have the advantage of Sabbath instruction. A friend of mine, living in the Township of Pelham, said to me not long since, that there were ten of your girls in the north part of that Township, all good girls and well cared for. Mrs Hagar wishes you to consider her applicant for one of your next girls. Respectfully yours, J S HAGAR 1881 Census - TURNER, Julia, 22 England, Meth, with Mr. GARNER, Ag Agent Welland,. Welland County, F, Pg 6, LAC 13253. Johanna StillwellSTILLWELL, Johanna 12 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 July 9 1870 Bristol Union paid £11 TNA ref MH12/3871 & 3872 What the Children Say About the People - (to Bristol Workhouse) Port Stanley, April 7th, 1871. (Yarmouth Township, Elgin County) Dear Miss... I was very much pleased when I received your letter. I am glad you enjoyed your holiday. I have heard where my sister lives, and have written to her this week. She lives at Mr James Law, a farmer, only one son, at Thorald (Thorold). I thought you had letters from all the girls that you had asked to write you, and I think it very ungrateful of them not to write to you. I am very glad to hear that you received a letter from M. A. Cambell. I am very sorry indeed to hear of the death of Mr Greatorex. Give Miss Emma my kind love, and also Mrs Greatorex and master Eddy and Robert. I have enjoyed the winter very much. It has not been very cold. There has not been very much snow. I believe there never is much snow just here, because we are so near the lake. Please give me the names of some of the girls who are coming out to Canada with Miss Rye, who you can best recommend, for a lady in Port Stanley wishes to get one - one who is kind and gentle to children. Dear Miss ..., give my kind love to Miss Jane and to Mrs. ... I hope Mrs. ... has been well this winter, as she generally has a cold. Give my love to Mr. Spring, and tell him I have not forgotten the sermon which he preached to us before we came to Canada. I hope Miss Bessell was pleased with my letter to her. We have lately had a new library in the Sabbath school, and the books are very pretty ones. I hope Mrs Greatorex is mistress of the house still. Give my kind love to the guardians. I will write to you as often as I can, and let you know how I am getting on. Please accept my kindest love, I must soon write to Mrs .... Please write to me as soon as you can, for the lady is anxious to hear about the girls. I am, your affectionate and grateful friend, J. Stillwell 1871 Census - STILLWELL, JOANNA, 12, England, CE, with Henry AKELL, merchant. District 5, Subdist C, Div 2, Pg 4, Southwold Twp., Elgin County. LAC 9898. 1878 Rye Report - #154 Elgin, Port Stanley, stet 1881 Census - St James Ward, Toronto, York, Ont, Pg 147 Robert EASTON 42 Scotland Tel Operator Presby Johanna STILLWELL 23 England Servant Cof E Children (can't find a marriage) William Theophilus Haron 30 Jun 1886 Mary Isabella Hawn 11 Oct 1887 Grace Martha Haun 7 Nov 1889 Albert John Haun 7 Nov 1889 Eliza Estella Hawn 1 Nov 1891 1891 Census Oxford North Woodstock Theophilus Hawn 46 Johana Hawn 33 Arthur Hawn 19 (from 1st wife Minnie Allen) Theophilus Hawn 4 Mary Hawn 3 Albert Hawn 1 1901 Census Oxford (North) Woodstock Mary Ann StandenApr 18 1870 Chichester Union (no amount given) What the Children Say about the People - pg 32 Niagara, July 31st. (1870?) My Dear Governess: I now take the pleasure of writing to you, and I hope you are better. Give my love to your mother and sister and Miss Alice, and to all the children. I hope they are all good. Tom has got a place at Mr Alex Buntin paper manufacturer, Valley Field, near Montreal, and I am living with Miss Rye altogether, nursemaid. The children are all very happy. We had the most beautiful voyage, I idn't think anybody could have wished better: We was only fourteen days on the water. My dear governess, will you please to excuse my bad writing? I could not write it better because I had no time, I only wrote these few lines to tell you what a pleasant voyage we had, and to know if you were better. I like the place very well. I wished you were with me over here. Miss Rye is very good to us. They all like her very well. I cannot say any more at present, from Your obedient servant, My. A Standen. There is a few stamps for the children. I sent a shilling home to Mrs Harris, did they have it? I should like to know. (Mentioned in letter from Annie McMaster, "How is the cook, and the nurse, and Polly Standen, and Jane Brixy? I hope they are all well and happy. Tell them I send my kind love to them. And how many is there left that came out with me? (these girls came on the same ship) 1878 Report - #137, married Marriage Mary Ann Standen Birth Place:England Age:17 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1854 Father Name: Thomas Standen Mother Name: Ellen Standen Spouse Name: George Harrington Spouse's Age:21 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1850 Spouse Birth Place Birmingham England Parents: Trances & Betsy Marley Harrington Marriage Date:7 Mar 1871 Marriage Place: Wentworth, Barton Family History Library Microfilm:MS932_4 1871 Census Ontario, Wentworth South, Barton George Harrington 21 England Servant C of England Mary A Harrington 17 England Servant (to Valleyfield Quebec where brother Thomas lives) 1891 Census Quebec Beauharnois, Valleyfield George Harrington 41 England Mary Harrington 38 England George W Harrington 12 Quebec (to Myrtle Aileen Brooker, 1902, Walter Harrington 9 " David Harrington 4 " (birth David Lamb Harrington 1887) Arthur Harrington 1 " (Arthur Hebert b 1890) Clara Harrington 17 United States Elizabeth Harrington 14 Quebec Marion Harrington 7 Quebec (m George Percy Haldsworth 1903) 1911 Quebec, Beauharnois, Valleyfield Rue, (St) Petel Careal George Harrington 60 Mar 1841 Anglesey Chef (Head) Mary Anne Harrington 50 Aug 1861 Anglesey Waltar Harrington 29 Cayly Harrington 19 Mary Harrington 16 Death George Harrington, 60, 1911 Valleyfield Death Mary Standing Harrington, 1918, widow of George, Valleyfield son death Arthur Herbert Harrington 1906 Methodist Valleyfield Mary Jane RobinsonROBINSON, Mary Jane 12 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 (Could be sister of Annie Robinson, 9 also from Kirkdale, same ship) 1875 Letters - What the Children Say About Canada - pg 31 Drummondville, Ontario, Jan 4th, 1870. Mary Jane Robinson sends her best respects and kind love to Miss Rye, and would be much obliged to her to send her Sunday frock, which she forgot to bring with her to Mrs Partington's. Mr Cameron has kindly offered to bring it. She is glad to say she has got a good place, and is very happy. Hopes the little girls are all well. 1871 Census - ROBINSON, MARY JANE, 12, England , with Sarah PARTINGTON, widow. Dist 19, Subdist J2, Pg 69.Stamford Twp., Welland County LAC 9920. 1875 Inspection Report - Drummondville Centre, Mrs Pew, Inspector, Mary Ann? Robinson, 18, Kirkdale Union 1870, PC, goes to Church & Sunday School, with Mr Kicke, Drummondville, not adopted, usual terms, here 4 years. In a good home doing remarkably well. George HardingHARDING, George 11 M SS Prussian 1870 -Jul 14 - Jul 25 (Mentioned in letter from sister Sarah Edith Harding) " Please would you send me my brother's address, so I may write to him?" 1878 Report - #185-33, Montreal, stet 1871 Census Quebec, Beauharnois, Ste Cécile with Joseph Lamb 42, Jane Lamb 42, James Lamb 19, William Lamb 8, Joseph Lamb 3, David Lamb 7mo, George Harding 13 (abt 1858) England C. Presbytarian Thomas Standon 15 (abt 1856) England Thomas Standon and his sister Mary Ann also came with Rye on the 1870 Prussian (next week's story) Clara HardingHARDING, Clara 1 F SS Prussian 1870 -Jul 14 - Jul 25 Circmstances: siblings Sarah Edith 14, George 11 (went to Montreal) and Clara Harding, were picked up from London streets. Sarah had been living with two others (one a baby of three months) all alone, in a room in Whitechapel. Mentioned in 2 letters from sister Sarah Edith Harding (1) Sept 1870, "and how is the dear baby, and is she gone?" (2) "I am going down to Jordan to see the baby today. 1871 Census - Niagara Town.- East Ward., Niagara County. HARDING, CLARA H, 11/12 months, England, at Our Western Home, 1878 Report - #186-7, Co Lincoln, stet Followup research on Clara Harding 1881 Census Lincoln County, Clinton Joseph T. Culp 34 Ontario Elisa Culp 36 Ontario Clara Culp 10 1871 England Ontario, Canada Marriages Name:James May Birth Place:Port Dalhousie Age:23 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1864 Father Name:William May Mother Name:Emanda May Spouse Name:Clara Hardy Spouse's Age:21 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1866 Spouse Birth Place: Port Dalhousie PARENTS UNKNOWN adopted by Joseph Culp Marriage Date: 6 Jul 1887 Marriage Place:Lincoln Family History Library Microfilm:MS932_57 Children of Clara Harding May Clara E May 25 May 1888 James May Clara Hardy death 8 Jul 1895, diptheria Eliza May 21 Aug 1895 James May Clara May Herbert A May 21 Aug 1890 James May Caroline Culp (informant Joseph Culp) Lester May 24 Apr 1893 James May Clara Culp death 13 Apr 1912, accidental drowning Percy Wallace May 19 Jun 1902 James May Clara Harding James Gordon May 19 Apr 1908 James May Clara Culp 1891 Census Lincoln County, Port Dalhousie James May 29 Clara May 21 England Free Church Clara E May 2 Herbert A May 7/12 Joseph & Eliza Culp adoptive parents live next door 1901 Census Lincoln County, Port Dalhousie Village James May 39 Clara May 31 26 May 1869 England Imm Year 1870 Church Of England Herbert A May 10 Lester May 7 Eliza A. May 5 Ethel C. May 2 1911 Census Lincoln Port Dalhousie, Main St James A May 49 Clara Holland May 42 May 1869 England Imm 1870 Herbert Aaron May 20 Lester May 18 Percy Wallis May 7 James Gordon May 3 Channcey Larne May 2/12 Eliza Alexanda May 15 Ethel Catherine May 12 (married Pepin, Joseph Anthony February 19, 1917) Husband James Augustus May died 13 Apr 1912 He and his son, Lester, died in a drowning accident on Martindale Pond Funeral from the family residence, Church Street, Port Dalhousie Burials MAY, Clara E., St Andrew's United Church, Port Dalhousie MAY, James A,.St Andrew's United Church, Port Dalhousie Harry BisgoodINSGOOD, Harry 14 M SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 What the Children Say About Canada - pg 31 Niagara Street, St. Catherine's. Dear Miss Rye: I arrived safely at St. Catharine's, then I went on to Mr. N, and stoped (sic) there all night. Mr Norris is going to keep me for 5 years, I am stopping at his brother house, will you please send me my box by Chase to-day (Saturday) and he will leave it at Mr. Norris, Niagara Street, St. Catharine's, that is where I am going to live. Mr Norris is going to send to school for 2 or 3 month, and now with best love to yourself Miss Alaway, I remain your grateful, Harry. What the Children Say About the People - pg 34/5 mentioned in Laura Warr's letter of Jan 23, 1871 to Miss Rye - I told Jane and Harry that you sent them your kind love. 1871 Census - BISGOOD, HARRY, 14, England, District 21, Dist B, Div 1, Pg 34. St. Catherines Town., Lincoln County with James NORRIS. LAC 9922. Emma ShawSHAW, Emma 12 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 Oct 24 1870, Orphan, St. George’s Union paid £11 1870 Report - St George, Hanover Square - #6. Emma Shaw - to Mr. Zenas B. Lewis, Clifton, Ontario, has two children, proprietor of Clifton Water Works, lived there 12 years. Child bound for service. 1870 Report - St George, Hanover Square - Letter # 3 River View, Clifton dated March 2nd, 1871 My Dear Master and Mistress I was so delighted yesterday to receive your kind letter. I did not think you would take the trouble to write to me. I am happy to tell you I have a kind Mistress and Master, they are like mother and father to me. I am thankful for a comfortable home. I live in view of Niagara Falls, and best of all, where I am taught to love God. I will try to take your advice and always be obedient and respectful. I don't know where any of those girls you mentioned are, not likely I shall ever see them , Canada is such a large country. I would have written to you before, but I lost your address. Please write again, and please send the enclosed to my brother. Yours respectfully, Emma Shaw. 1871 Census - SHAW, EMMA, 12, England , with B. LEWIS, District 19, Subdist L, Pg 61. Clifton Twn., Niagara County. LAC 9920. 1875 Inspection Report - Drummond Centre, Mrs Pew, Inspector, St Georges Hanover Square Workhouse 1870, with Z.B. Lewis, Clifton. 1881 Census Welland Clifton Emma Shaw Single 23 Birth Year:1858 England Canada Presbyterian Church Servant wiith John Drew 48, Louisa Drew 49, William J Drew 22, Maria E Drew 20, Alferd G. Drew 12, Frederick H. Drew 6, George Law 44 Brother (? name) James or George Shaw 9 came with Maria Rye in 1871 more next week Sarah RidgwayRIDGWAY, Sarah 13 F should be SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9
(Sister of Mary Jane Ridgway, 10 who was placed in Wellington County and by 1878 had returned to England) 1871 Census - RIDGWAY, SARAH J, 14, England , with Thomas WETHERALL, Accountant, District 21, Subdist B, Div 4, Pg 39. St. Catherines Town., Lincoln County. LAC 9922. 1875 Letters -What The Children Say About Canada - Reading Workhouse - pg 50 Sarah Ridgway, at Mrs. Wetherell's,Court-street,St. Cathrians. My dear Miss Rye: I now sit to write a few lines to you, hopping (sic) they will find you in good health, as thank God it leaves me at present. I have a very kind Mistress and Master, and they are very kind to Me. Dear Miss Rye, I hope you spent a merry Christmas and a happy new year, as I did my self. Give my kind love to (sister?) Mary Jane and to Ellen, and tell them that I am quite well. Will you Please to send me my Sister's address, and will you let me know how she is, and if she has kept her place? There was a ladys tea party, and I went to it, and I had to hand the things round the table, and there was dancing and Playing, and after all the things off (sic) the Christmass (sic) tree wass (sic) given out. I had a little mat and a book-mark. I go to the Sunday School every Sunday afternoon. I like St. Cathrians (sic) better than Niagara. When you wirte, let me know how my sister is. I have three lessons when I go to the School on Sunday, and I like it very well. So good-bye, and God bless you all. I remain, your obeient (sic) servant, Sarah Ridgway. Write back by return of Post. Tell Mary Jane I will write to her next. Give my kind love to Carry Warne, and let me know how she is. (Mary Jane is her sister from Reading Union) (Caroline Warne also came from Reading and on the same ship) I wonder if Sarah also returned to England I do not find a marriage or any children born to her Mary Ellen PeelPEEL, Mary Ellen12 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 New Brunswick Oct 26 1870 Mary Ann Peel, 12, Orphan & Deserted, Toxteth Park paid £8 (Mary Ann and Ellen Peel the same girl - no other girl named Peel came1870.) RG17 Vol 238 File 24447, LAC - General Correspondence 31 Dec 1878 & 3 Jan 1879 Our Western Home, Niagara Canada, 31 Dec 78. Re Ellen Peel. Dear Sir Your communications respecting the above girl duly reached me - & would not for Christmas interfering have been answered before - Ellen Peel came out to Canada in 1870 - and was then 13 years old - consequently is now 21 years old. Her first situation was with George Hutt of Fredericton, and from the character of the family I am sure no girl would be ill treated with them - but the letters we have received now in England have always spoken of the girl as unmanageable - and after a time we removed her to Mr W Murray of Keswick, York Co, New Brunswick - where her conduct was also not satisfactory. Her situation is no doubt sad - if she is sick - but surley, I am not to be held responsible for the future sorrows or difficulties of every emigrant woman I bring into Canada - and I shall be glad to hear the opinion of the government on the matter - If the gentlemen who are so deeply interested in the case like to make up a subscription for the woman - I will give something from my own pocket - but I will not pay for the girl from the Home monies - as I think the principle wrong. V. truly M S Rye 1871 Census New Brunswick, York, St Ann Ward Name:Elenor Peel 13y abt 1858 England George Hatt 30 Sarah Hatt 26 George Hatt 4 Kendrick Hatt 2 Margaret Hatt 8m Elenor Peel 13 Eliza MayerMAYER, Eliza, 9 SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 NB (says Eliza Moore) Oct 24 1870, Eliza Moore, 9, Orphan, St. George's Union paid £11 1870 Report - St George, Hanover Square - #12. Eliza Maer - to Mr. John Bennett, Fredericton, New Brunswick, has four children, Chief Superintendent of the Schools of the province, lived there 10 years, child bound for service. 1871 Census New Brunswick, Albert, Coverdale John Geldart 66 Margaret Geldart 63 Moses Geldart 24 Chapin Geldart 20 Harris H Geldart 17 Eliza Mayer 16 England 1875 Letters from the Province of New Brunswick Evelyn Grove, Fredericton, April 7th, 1875 My Dear Mr Boyd: (Immigration Officer, NB) I regret very much to hear that some persons in England land are finding fault with Miss Rye on account of emigration work. I should like very much to bear testimony in her behalf. I was much impressed with the deep 'personal' interest which she took in 'each' of the children, and I was delighted with the nature and extent of her enquiries as to the character of the applicants for her little ones. Miss Rye, and the young lady who accompanied her, Miss Geraldine Allaway, were our guests for a short time at Government House, and I had a very favourable opportunity for forming an opinion as to her business qualifications, but more especially as to the real spirit of benevolence by which she appeared to be prompted. So far as I can learn, all the children taken here have given every satisfaction. Mr and Mrs Lemon are very much pleased with Hattie and Lizzie Mayer, both of whom are regular attendants at the Sabbath School, under my charge, and have conducted themselves in the most exemplary manner. Some three years ago I received a letter from a person in London (whose name I forget) calling himself an uncle of Hattie Mayer, and making enquiries about her. I gave him every information as to her comfortable home, and her very satisfactory conduct in every particular, with which he was very much pleased, and for which he thanked me. Believe me my dear Mr. Boyd, Very sincerely yours. L A Wilmot, Late Lieut-Governor of New Brunswick. 1871 Census - sister Harriet is with Wm Lemont in Fredericton Emily (Emma) HibbardEmily (Emma) spells her surname 2 different ways in her letter and her marriage. HIBBARD, Emily 12 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 Oct 24 1870, Deserted, St. George’s Union paid £11 1870 Report - St George, Hanover Square - #2. Emma Hibbert - to Mr. George Burch, St. Catharine's, Box PO 507, Ontario, has no children, cabinet manufacturer, lived there five years. Child adopted. 1871 Census - HIBBARD, EMMA, 12, England land , with George BURCH, District 21, Subdist B, Div 4, Pg 55.St. Catherines Town , Lincoln County. LAC 9922. 1875 Inspection Report - Grimsby Centre, Cyrus Nelles & Canon Reade, Inspectors - Emma Hibbert, 16, St. Georges Hanover Square Workhouse 1870, CE, goes to Church and Sunday School, with Cyrus Nelles, Grimsby, not adopted, paid $4 by the month, here 4 years, housework. Good home and doing well. 1878 Annual Peckham Report - Letter #2 - The next is a St. George’s girl who wants her sister out: Grimsby, 23 Dec., 1877 Dear Miss Rye: I now take the pleasure of writing these few lines to you. I thank you for the nice present you sent me. Dear Miss Rye, I got a letter from my sister, and she said that she has got to go out to service in another year, and I would like to have her out before the year is* out. (The Board are kindly sending her this summer.) And now, Miss Rye, will you be so kind as to give me all the advice you can what to do about her? I will inclose her letter, and you can see what she says. For my part I think she might just as well come out and go to service here as well as there. And now, Miss Rye, I hope it won’t trouble you too much, you have always been so very kind to me in hunting up my sister in England land . And now I must conclude with my best love from, EMMA HIBBERT. 1881 Census - Grimsby, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, FHL 1375891, LAC 13255, Dist 145, SubDist E-1, Pg 32 Cyrus NELLES, 46, German, Farmer, Church of England, Emma HIBBARD, 21, England land , Servant, Church of England land MARRIAGE: Emma Hibbard Birth Place:England Age:22 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1859 Father Name:George Hibbard Mother Name:Charlotte Hibbard Spouse Name:Arthur Fuss Spouse's Age:26 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1855 Spouse Birth Place:Canada Spouse Father Name:Thomas Fuss Spouse Mother Name:Emily Fuss Marriage Date:31 Aug 1881Marriage Place:Lincoln I cannot find Emma after 1881 Can or USA Elizabeth DunkleyDUNKLEY, Elizabeth 11 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 NB or NS Oct 19 1870 Wolverhampton Union paid £10 1875 Letters -What The Children Say About Canada - Wolverhampton Workhouse - pg 50/1 My Dear Miss Rye: I have not for got My promisd to write, so I send this in Mrs Owen's letter. My hands are better, hand My face is nearly well, I like it very well hear. I help the house Maid. I don't go to school, but I have lessons at home, and I am going to Church and Sunday school every Sunday, and Maria lives very near, so I can see her often, and I shall see the others on Sunday. When I can write better I will write again. I hope you will come and see me next year. I am very happy. Thank you for being so kind to me, and I remain yours gratefully, Elizabeth Dunkley. (Reference to Maria could be Maria A Frances also in St John - both came on the same ship.) Doyle's Report - Responses from Maria Rye, 8 Feb 1875 - Pg 27. "E.D. Present address not known." could be Elizabeth Dunkley. See Synopsis, No. 198. Girl 18 years old. 1878 NB/NS Report - 20, born London, don't know which workhouse, lived with aunt, came 1870 with Miss Rye, Epis, goes to Church and Sunday School, she is now married to Mr Chas McKay in East Port, Maine. April 19 1878 NS/NB Report that were omitted last year. No 2. ELIZABETH DUNKLEY, 20. Left Mrs Robertson Owen two years ago, and a year ago was married to Mr Charles McRey (sic) a young Nova Scotian and a good blacksmith. I visited his house and shop which showed that they are very comfortable and doing very well in such. She is a neat fine looking woman. They are living in Eastport, Maine. Her character is very good. LOOKING FOR ELIZABETH ON CENSUS 1880 Eastport, Washington, Maine Name:Elizabeth McKay Age:22 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1858 Birthplace:England Father's birthplace:England Mother's birthplace:England Occupation:Keeps House Cannot read/write: Charles McKay 24 Elizabeth McKay 22 Ida May McKay 2 1900 Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts Name:Elizabeth Mc Kay Age:42 Birth Date:May 1858 Birthplace:England Immigration Year:1869 Father's Birthplace:England Mother's Birthplace:England Mother: number of living children:1 Mother: How many children:1 Spouse's name:Charles N Marriage Year:1877 Marital Status:Married Years Married: 23 Charles N Mc Kay 45 Elizabeth Mc Kay 42 1910 Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts Elizabeth S McKay Age in 1910:51 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1859 Birthplace:England Father's Birth Place:EnglandMother's Birth Place:England Spouse's name:Charles HMarital Status:Married Year of Immigration:1869 Charles H McKay 55 Elizabeth S McKay 51 1920 Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts Name:Elizabeth S McKay Age:60 years Estimated Birth Year:abt 1860 Birthplace:England Relation to Head-of-house:Wife Spouse's name:Charles N Father's Birth Place:England Mother's Birth Place:England Marital Status:Married Year of Immigration:1870 Able to read:Yes Able to Write:Yes Charles N McKay 64 Elizabeth S McKay 60 (COULD BE) 1930 Census Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska Name:Elizabeth McKay Age:73 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1857 Birthplace:England Relation to Head-of-house:Head Elizabeth McKay 73 widow immigrated 1870 Elizabeth BramhallBRAMHALL, Elizabeth 10 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 Oct 26 1870 Toxteth Park Union paid £8 (sister of Sarah Bramhall) 1875 Letters - What the People Say About The Children - pg 15 Chatham, Ontario, January 11th, 1871 Miss M S Rye, Hon. Sec., Our Orphan’s Home, Niagara. Dear Miss: I have great pleasure in informing you of the safe arrival of the little girl, Elizabeth Bramhall on Saturday night last at 8 o’clock. We are well satisfied with her so far, and hope her position will be mutually advantageous. Your obedient, E W Scane. 1871 Census - BRAMBALL, ELIZABETH, 11, ENG, with Ebenezer SCANE, sawyer District 2, Subdist G, Div 1, Pg 56. Chatham Town., Kent County. LAC 9892. 1875 Inspection Report - Chatham Centre, E Scane & Mr McCrae, Inspectors, Eliz’th Broughall, 16, Toxteth Park Workhouse 1870, MC, goes to Church, not Sunday School with S Scane, Chatham, not adopted, clothing & wages, 5 years here, housework. This is an excellent girl and well cared for. 1881 Census - Chatham, Kent, Ontario, FHL 1375916, LAC 13280, Dist 180, SubDist I, Div 2, Pg 20 R T SMITH, 27, Ontario, Tin Smith, C. Methodist Lizzie BRANHOFT, 21, England , C. Methodist Maria GrantGRANT, Maria 8 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, 14th April, 1875. Dear Friend: Your circular has been too long unanswered, not, however from intentional neglect, but we are living in a small inland place, where we have no artist, and consequently we have been unable to comply with your request to all; the weather, too, has been extremely inclement during our winter. So that is one excuse we have to offer. As to the misrepresentations of Mr Doyle, so far as we are concerned, his representations are entirely at variance with the facts. Our girls have greatly improved, having been treated more like adopted children than like servants; they are as well dressed when at church as most of the children of parents in good circumstances anywhere; they are cheerful and happy, none having excessive labour to perform. The one I have, Maria Grant is a delicate child; growing very rapidly in height, but naturally quite thin; she calls me Pa and my wife Ma. I read your letter to her and asked her what she thought of it? She laughed very heartily at such a misrepresentation of matters, at least as far as we here are concerned. As soon as it is possible I will have the photograph taken and forwarded to you. I hope you will succeed in refuting any statements contrary to facts, and that our good work may prosper always. My wife desires to be remembered. Yours truly, Geo Latimer, MD. 1878 Rye Report - #5-32,United States, dead 1870 United States Federal Census Name:Mariah Grant Esmated Birth Year:abt 1862 Age in 1870: 8 Birthplace:England Home in 1870:Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi George Latimer 44 Emma Latimer 27 Clementina Latimer 7 Charles Latimer 4 Erwin Latimer 2 Mary Latimer 17 Mariah Grant 8 England Mary Smith 22 Margarett Smith 20 Martha HallHALL, Martha 10 F sb SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 First Report for 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #15. Martha Hall; 10; orphan; 9 months in workhouse; brother and sister, unknown; Mr. R.C., Raymond, Mississippi, U.S.; bound over for service; Hardware merchant and tinsmith. Has 3 girls. Lived 14 years in present neighborhood. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. (see Maria Grant - letter written by George Latimer, Md, from Raymond, Miss for more detail re the girls.) 1878 Rye Report - (says Matilda Hall) #17-29, United States 1870 United States Federal Census Name:Martha Hays Estimated Birth: abt 1861 Age in 1870:9 Birthplace:England Home in 1870:Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi Post Office:Raymond Richard Charlton 44 (as RC in Rchmond Mass above) Mary E Charlton 29 Jennie Charlton 7 Martha Charlton 9 Mary Charlton 1 **Martha Hays 9 England Archa Maginty 12 Cherry Handy 21 Mary Ann McGillMcGILL, Mary Ann9 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #12. Mary Ann McGill; 12; orphan; workhouse 3 years; brother in school; another in town not known; Rev. R.N., Raymond, Mississippi, U.S.; bound for service; Presbyterian. Lived in present neighborhood only two months. From Danville, Kentucky. Has one child. 1875 Letters - What the People Say About The Children - pg 10 Raymond, Feb. 12th. Dear Miss Rye: We have looked forward to your coming most eagerly - and still we look and hope. When are you coming. Little Annie McGill, at Mrs Kennards' say, "Never mind, Mrs Wharton, Miss Rye is surely coming, and then you will have a nice little girl to keep the children." The children you left here have given much satisfaction, and Old England may well be proud of them. I wrote you a month since; Mr. Shearer also. He fears you have been ill. Can you not devote a little time to your Raymond friends? And let them know when to expect you, With many wishes for your future prosperity, I remain respectfully, Your friend, Cora R Wharton, Raymond, Miss. This refers to Mary Ann Gill - (see letter from O V Shearer) " MrKinnard has left here and gone back to Kentucky, where he came from. His little girl disliked very much to go." 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. (see Maria Grant - letter written by George Latimer, MD from Raymond, Miss for more detail re the girls.) 1878 Rye Report - #13, United States 1870 United States Federal Census Name:Annie McGier (sb McGill) Estimated Birth Year:abt 1860 Age in 1870:10 Birthplace:England Home in 1870:Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi Race:White Gender:Female Post Office:Raymond Ross Kinnard 30 Clergyman Mary Kinnard 27 Margarett Kinnard 1 Annie McGill 10 Louisa BurdenBURDIN, Louisa 10 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - # 41. Louisa Burden; 12; orphan; 3 years; No relations known; H.S., Esq., Raymond, Mississippi; bound over for service; farmer; has one son. lived 17 years in present place. (Mentioned in letter from Emily & Louisa Clayton, Feb 1870 who came on the same ship.- "and when you write please let me know how Louisa Burden is.") (Mentioned in a letter from Martha Sinclair who came on the same ship - "and I send my kind love to Priscilla Elliot and Mary Hodson, and to Louisa Burden.") 1870 United States Federal Census - Post Office: Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi Hamilton Sivley 63 Sarah J Sivley 48 William B Sivley 14 Molly D Farris 19 Louisa Burdon 11 England 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario v Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. I will write and send my girl's (Sarah Williams) photograph as early as convenient. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. (see Maria Grant - letter written by George Latimer, MD, Raymond, Miss for more detail re the girls.) 1878 Rye Report - #41, US, stet Henry ThomasHenry THOMAS, 13 M sb SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8
PLACEMENTS FOR HENRY First Report for 1869 - #68. Henry Thomas; 13; orphan; in little place in London; workhouse one year; No relations; with aunt in Oshawa, Canada; Adopted; learning cabinet-making. 1871 Census - THOMAS, William Henry, 17, England, Disciples, Machinist, with his sister, Isabella & John & Susanna Mallatte, cabinet maker. LAC #9975 District 48, Subdist E, Div 1, Pg 43. Oshawa Twn., Ontario County 1875 Letters - What the People Say December 1st, 1869, William Street, Oshawa, Ontario Dear Madam: I feel it my duty to write to you to return thanks for the kind care and protection. In regard to the orphans Thomas, they came safe to Oshawa, and they speak in high terms of your kindness to them. You have made my heart glad. I am sure they never could have come if you had not taken them with you. May your life be preserved for many years to carry on your great and good work, and may the new year meet you with every blessing that this world can afford, and may you have a long and happy life, and at the end may you have everlasting life and be rewarded for all your kind and good works, is the wish of your grateful servant. Signed, SUSANNA MALLETT I cannot find Henry & Isabella in further census or marriage records Jane TaylorJane TAYLOR, 11 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 PLACEMENTS FOR JANE First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #19. Jane Taylor; 9; orphan; workhouse 12 months; W.N., Esq., St. Catherine's, Ontario; bound as servant. Farmer. 2 children at home. Has lived 35 years in present neighborhood. (Mentioned in a letter from Elizabeth Chesworth living in Bloomfield, US - "And, Miss Rye, I am sorry to hear Lizzie Taylor was not liked by her mistress for having such a bad temper, so has lost her place, tell me whether she is with you now or not. Jane Taylor and I have been writing to each other. I have not heard from her since Lizzie left her place." 1871 Cenus - TAYLOR, JANE, 12, England, servant, with Warner NELLES, District 21, Subdist A, Div 2, Pg 21. Grantham , Lincoln County, LAC 9921. (Henry Roberts, 9, who came on the 1870 Prussian is also living here.) 1875 Inspection Report - St. Catharines Centre, Rev G Burson, Inspector - Jane Taylor, 17, Kirkdale 1869, MC, goes to Church & Sunday School, with Warner Nelles, St. Catharines, not adopted, $4 a month, here 5 years, housework. An excellent home, well cared for. Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924 Jane Grace Taylor Birth Place:West Cumberland Eng Age:22 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1859 Father Name:George Taylor Mother Name:Jane Taylor Spouse Name:John H Thompson Spouse's Age:23 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1858 Spouse Birth Place:London Ontario Spouse Father Name:John Thompson Spouse Mother Name:Mary Thompson Marriage Date:15 Aug 1881 Marriage Placexford Marriage Countyxford Family History Library Microfilm:MS932_37 Witness: Mary Thompson, Ingersoll Births of Children Malinda Thompson 11 Oct 1890 Oxford John H Thompson/Jane Taylor Florence Thompson 23 Jun 1896 Oxford John Hawkshaw Thompson/Jane Grace Taylor Matilda Thompson 1 Jul 1884 Middlesex John H Thompson/Jane G Taylor 1901 Ontario Districtxford (South/Sud) Ingersoll (Town/Ville) John H Thompson 44 Butcher Jane G Thompson 45 Jane Thompson 18 to find birth Matilda Thompson 16 William J Thompson 14 Malinda M Thompson 10 Annie A Thompson 7 to find birth Death - Jane Thompson abt 1856 England 1 Jan 1932 Ingersoll Elizabeth TaylorTAYLOR, Elizabeth 10 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 PLACEMENTS FOR ELIZABETH First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse chools- #13. Elizabeth Taylor; 11; orphan; workhouse 12 months; sister to Matilda Taylor; Major T., Queen's, Cobourg, Ontario; bound for service; has lived 15 months in Cobourg. Has house and property in St. Catherine's. Two children. (sister to Jane #19 & Matilda #2) 1871 Census - Elizabeth TAILOR, 8, England, with Thomas COLE, Shoemaker, Stamford Twp, District 19, Sub J, Div 2, Pg 77. LAC 9920. 1875 Inspection Report - Drummondville Centre - Mrs Pew, Inspector, Edith Taylor 14, Kirkdale Union 1869, CE, goes to Church & Sunday School, with Mrs Thos Cole, Drummondville, adopted, usual term, 5 years here, housework. In a good home, well spoken of, a fine healthy girl. 1875 Letters - What the Children Say About Canada - Bristol Workhouse - page 40 Daines. Niagara. My Dear Mrs. Rye I am getting well, and I like my home very well, and I am very happy; and if you please, will you be so kind as to let me know wear my sister Matilda has gone? My mistress has brought me a great deal of clothes. My eyes are very bad and I cannot go out, and I am taking medicine and powders. Signed: ELIZA TAYLOR (Mentioned in a letter from Elizabeth Chesworth dated Oct 1870 - "And, Miss Rye, I am sorry to hear Lizzie Taylor was not liked by her mistress for having such a bad temper, so has lost her place, tell me whether she is with you now or not. Jane Taylor and I have been writing to each other. I have not heard from her since Lizzie left her place." Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924 Elizabeth F Taylor Birth Place:Liverpool England Age:21 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1861 Father Name:George Taylor Mother Name:Jane Forsyth Spouse Name:Richard Thompson Spouse's Age:23 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1859 Spouse Birth Place:London Ontario Spouse Father Name:John Thompson Spouse Mother Name:Mary Hawkshaw Marriage Date:10 Oct 1882 Marriage Place:Welland County Family History Library Microfilm:MS932_41 Witness: Matilda Taylor, Niagara Fall, Ontario Children: Harold Vinccent Thompson 5 Feb 1885 Richard Thompson/Elizabeth Taylor Irene Mildred Thompson 21 Aug 1897 Richard Thompson/Elizabeth Taylor Next Week - sister Matilda Taylor Following Week - sister Jane Taylor Martha SinclairMartha Sinclair 9 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8
PLACEMENTS FOR MARTHA First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - # 9. Martha Sinclair; 13; orphan; workhouse 3 years; relations none known; Mrs. Amy E., Widow, Clinton, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, U.S.; Bound for service; Farmer. Has 2 sons and a daughter grown up. 1870 United States Federal Census Name:Martha Sinclar Estimated Birth Year:abt 1858 Age in 1870:12 Birthplace:Scotland (or England?) Home in 1870:Union, Hunterdon, New Jersey Race:White Gender:Female Post Office:Clinton Amy Exton 62 Jos E Exton 28 Henrietta L Exton 26 Charles H Carter 13 Martha Sinclar 12 Nelson Bunn 30 1878 Rye Report - #11 - US 1875 Letters - What The children Say about Canada - Kirkdale - pg 46/ (written to the Workhouse in Liverpool) New Jersey, Union Farm, February 7th, 1870 I now write these few lines to tell you that I like my place very much, and my mistress is very kind to me and gives me all I want, and it is a very nice place indeed, and I only got there on Saturday morning at 2 o'clock, and I was very glad to get there. And would you please tell me how you are getting on, and I like to know how the children are getting on. And would you please tell how Mrs. (surname not given) is getting on, for I like to know very much how your two children are, and I hope they are quiet well, and I hope all is well and would tell me how Catherine Travis is, for I like to know very much how she am, and I like to know how you are getting on, and would please tell Priscilla Elliot that I will soon send her a letter soon, and I send my kind love to Priscilla Elliot and Mary Hodson, and to Louisa Burden, and would you please tell me how George is getting on, for I like to know very much, and I thank him very much for carrying my box over, and I want to know how you are getting on, and I send my kind love to you, and I very happy, and I am very sorry to that I cannot write any better, for it is my first time in writing a letter to you and write it all myself, and I am going to put a few verses in this letter, is about it is well: TIS WELL BELOVED, IT IS WELL GOD'S WAYS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT AND PERFECT LOVE IS O'ER THEM ALL, THO' FAR ABOVE OUR SIGHT. BELOVED, IT IS WELL THO' DEEP AND SORE THE SMART, THE HAND THAT WOUNDS KNOWETH HOW TO BIND AND HEAL THE BROKEN HEART BELOVED, IT IS WELL THO' SORROW CLOUD OUR WAY TWILL ONLY MAKE THE JOY MORE DEAD THAT USHERS IN THE DAY So no more at present from your effectnate, - Signed: MARTHA SINCLAIR 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - -pg 29 Sunday, February 27th, Union Farm. (1870) (New Jersey) My Dear Friend: I write these few lines to tell you that I like my place very much and Mrs Exton is very kind to me and I like her very much, and Miss Louisia also is very kind to me and I like to tell you how I got along.I was very safe and they were all very kind to me and a gentleman taken me into his house and gave me my supper on the first day you had sent me and the same gentleman gave me pretty near three dollars and he was very kind to me indeed, and he put me into the sleeping car and I reached great bend very early and they were very kind to me at Great Bend and gave me all I wanted, and Mrs Howe gave me a pear of draws and I thanked her very much and a kind Gentleman at Great Bend gave me about 5 cents, and I stayed at Great Bend four day, and Mrs Exton sent for me at Great Bend on Friday night to tell them to send on Saturday morning and the Mrs Exton was to meet at Hampton Junction and I got to the house between 1 and 2 o=clock, and it is very nice place indeed, and a Gentleman was at Mrs Extons this morning and I think he wants a girl, and Mrs Exton thinks there are several good places for good girls in this neighbourhood, and Mrs Extons girl is going away on Monday morning to Virginia, and I would be very glad to hear from you very much, and please tell me how Lucy James is getting on. So no more from your affectionate Martha Sinclair. 1880 Annual Peckham Report - Letter #1 Clinton, New Jersey, 12th, October 1879 "Dear Miss Rye, - I write you these few lines to let you know that I have not I hav not forgotten you yet, - you are still in my mind. I hope I will not forget you. I am at Mrs. E.'s now, I expect to stay with her for awhile yet. I hope you are keeping well. I heard that you had been to England for some more children- I hope you had a pleasant time in bringing them over, and I am sure you are doing good for the poor children of England, and I believe they get good homes as far as I can hear. I myself had a good home, though Mrs. E. was very strict. I will soon be eleven years in America. We are having some nice weather now. I would be very glad to hear from you; I would like to see you very much. I have been confirmed going on over four years, and am very glad- I belong to a very old church, called St. Thomas, it is somewhere about 112 years. Mrs. and Miss E. are both very well. I send my love to you." -Very truly yours - Martha S. Mary Ann McGillMary Ann McGill, 9 SS HIBERNIAN 1869 Oct 22 - Nov 8
PLACEMENTS FOR MARY ANN McGILL First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #12. Mary Ann McGill; 12; orphan; workhouse 3 years; brother in school; another in town not known; Rev. R.N., Raymond, Mississippi, U.S.; bound for service; Presbyterian. Lived in present neighborhood only two months. From Danville, Kentucky. Has one child. 1878 Rye Report - #13, United States 1880 United States Federal Census Mary McGill, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey; Age:18; abt 1862; Birthplace:England; Father's birthplace:England, Mother's birthplace:Ireland, Domestic Servant, Single; Cannot read/write; with William J. Buckley, (Spindel Manufacturer), Annie Buckley, Mary McGill 18, Maggie Hartrick 22, Domestic Servant, born New Jersey . 1875 Letters - What the People Say About The Children - pg 10 Raymond, Feb. 12th. Dear Miss Rye: We have looked forward to your coming most eagerly - and still we look and hope. When are you coming. Little Annie McGill, at Mrs Kennards says "Mrs Wharton," Miss Rye is surely coming, and then you will have a nice little girl to keep the children". The children you left here have given much satisfaction, and Old England may well be proud of them. I wrote you a month since; Mr. Shearer also. He fears you have been ill. Can you not devote a little tim 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. (see Maria Grant below - letter written by George Latimer, MD from Raymond, Mississippi for more detail re the girls.) LETTER RE MARIA GRANT - WRITTEN BY GEO LATIMER, MD 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, 14th April, 1875. Dear Friend: Your circular has been too long unanswered, not, however from intentional neglect, but we are living in a small inland place, where we have no artist, and consequently we have been unable to comply with your request to all; the weather, too, has been extremely inclement during our winter. So that is one excuse we have to offer. As to the misrepresentations of Mr Doyle, so far as we are concerned, his representations are entirely at variance with the facts. Our girls have greatly improved, having been treated more like adopted children than like servants; they are as well dressed when at church as most of the children of parents in good circumstances anywhere; they are cheerful and happy, none having excessive labour to perform. The one I have, Maria Grant is a delicate child; growing very rapidly in height, but naturally quite thin; she calls me Pa and my wife Ma. I read your letter to her and asked her what she thought of it? She laughed very heartily at such a misrepresentation of matters, at least as far as we here are concerned. As soon as it is possible I will have the photograph taken and forwarded to you. I hope you will succeed in refuting any statements contrary to facts, and that our good work may prosper always. My wife desires to be remembered. Yours truly, Geo Latimer, MD. Mary MainhoodMAINHOOD, Mary H. 11 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8
First Party Report - 1869 - #66. Mary H. Mainhood; 10; orphan; Oxfordshire workhouse two years; stepmother and uncle in England; with a married aunt in Iowa, United States. Cedar Falls, Iowa, December 26th, 1869 Dear Madam: I am very pleased to inform you that Mary Mainhood arrived in safety at Cedar Falls last Friday afternoon, about two o’clock. Mr Winter met her there. She is very well, and as happy as she can be. Her trunk has not come, and she has no cheque for it, and she says she never had one. The last time she saw her trunk was at the station after she left you. I will send, for your kind acceptance, a view of our Iowa home, and the future home of Mary H Mainhood. Thanking you again and again for all your kindness to Mary, I remain yours truly, Sarah Winter. P.S - Please to accept my sincere thanks for the nice books you sent me. I shall value them very highly indeed, and Mary is now reading the one you gave her. She wishes me to give her kind love to you, and to tell you she has never felt so happy since her mother died. I hope, nobal lady, that you will accept my warmest thanks for the trouble and care you have had for my little orphan niece. Please to excuse this poorly written letter, for I am suffering from weak eyes this winter. Elizabeth HutchinsHUTCHINS, Florence Edith, 11 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 First Party Report - 1869 - #58. Edith Hutchins; 11; orphan; Orphanage at Wolverhampton; workhouse 3 years; brother and sister; Robert Ball, Esq., Holmehurst, Niagara, Ontario; bound over for service; farmer; lived 43 years in present place. No children. Robert Ball was the Inspector for Niagara. It could be that Elizabeth went to his home until a placement could be found for her as she is with a different family on the 1871 census. 1871 Census - HUTCHINS, EDITH, 13, Scot, with George DUNCAN, merchant, District 19, Subdist J, Div 2, Pg 79. Stamford Twp., Welland County. LAC 9920. 1878 Rye Report - #59-32, Died St Marks Anglican Church Cemetery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Edith Hutchins died June 28, 1873 at 17 years of age and is buried here in the Rye plot. The Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939 by Marjorie Kohli ISBN 189621990X - Edith Hutchins, 17, accidentally burned to death at Niagara June 1873 at the home of Mr. Rhind, Niagara, Ontario in June 1873 Eliz'th Emma HughesHUGHES, Elizabeth Emma, 10 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 Placements for Elizabeth First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #8. Elizabeth Emma Hughes; 11; orphan; workhouse 2 years; No relations; Mr. Fred E., Lundy's Lane, Drummond Ville; Adopted; Farmer. Lived all his life in present neighborhood. Has one son. ELIZABETH is now an ELLIS 1871 Census - Elizabeth ELLIS, 10, England with Frederick ELLIS, Dist 19, Sub J2, pg 72, Stamford Twp, Welland County, LAC 9920. 1875 Inspection Report - Drummondville Centre, Edith Emma Hughes, 17, Kirkdale Union, 1869, Rel: C, goes to Church & Sunday School, with Mrs Fred Ellis, Drummondville, adopted, usual terms, 6 years here, housework. This is an excellent girl in a good home. 1881 Census - Stamford, Welland, Ontario, FHL 1375889, LAC 13253, Dist 142, SubDist J-2, Pg 58 Fred ELLIS, 51, England, Hotel Keeper, Church of England Mary A. ELLIS, 41, Dutch, Ontario James ELLIS, 22, Ontario Elizabeth ELLIS, 21, England, Church of England Louisa CASH, 18, Dutch, Ontario, Servant, Roman Catholic Caroline ELLIS, 59, England, Church of England Corrrespondence from M Rye to Immigration Dept - March 1894, heard of Emma Hughes, Liverpool Workhouse, about to be married - has lived 25 years with one family, The Ellis’ of Drumondville. I call her. Signed: Suffer all this for the children’s sake - MSR (Maria Susan Rye) I find a burial for a Lizzie ELLIS 1859-1903 in Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls. In the same plot are Fred & Mary Ann Ellis. 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 8/9 Drummondville, July 7th, 1871. Dear Madam: I have taken the liberty to ask you for another girl, fourteen or fifteen years old, as we are sending Lizzy to school; and my wife is taken with her so very much that she would like to have one to wait on the table as a dining-room girl, to give her wages; and if you will be so kind as to grant her favour. Lizzy sends her kind love to you, thanking you for your kindess to her, and if you grant our favour, will bring her down when I come after her, so that you can ask herself how she likes to live with us. I hope you will pick out a nice bright girl for me, and I will be a mother to her. Answer this letter and you will oblige. Mary A Ellis Emily ClaytonEmily CLAYTON, 7, came on the SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 Records for Emily Liverpool Record Office - Classification Record - Kirkdale Ragged School (b 1862), Exit Date: Oct 1869 First Party Report - 1869 -Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #5. Emily Clayton; 8; father deserted; Mother dead; 18 month in workhouse; 3 sisters in Liverpool; Mr. J. W–, Canfield, Ontario; Adopted; has 4 sons, 3 at home. Has lived 15 years in present neighborhood. (Would be John Wilson, Canfield) Sister Louisa is there but I don’t find Emily there on the 1871 census 1878 Rye Report - #6-5, Emily Clayton, Co Haldimand, stet, with Mrs Wilson 1875 Letters - What the Children Say about Canada - Kirkdale - pg 47 Canfield, February 4, 1870 Dear Miss Rye, I now take the opportunity of writing you a few lines. We received your kind letter on the 3rd, and was glad to hear from you. I am well and in good health as this letter leaves me at present, hoping that it may find you the same. As regards the book, I gave Margret Carr, a pitcher for the book, and will you please ask Margret Carr about it; will you please ask Lucy James and Elisa Villiards about it, and I hope Lucy is getting on very well, and when you write please let me know how Louisa Burden is, and I like my home very well, and they are all very kind to me and sister, and I could not be better treated than what I am, and that I would rather be hear than with my own sisters, and I think that there is no better home about Canada than what it is and my mamma treates me and my sister as if we were her own children. Signed: Emily & Louisa Clayton. Sarah Maria TalbotTALBOT, Sarah Maria 12 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8
Placements for Maria: First Party Report - 1869 - #52. Maria Talbot; 12; orphan; Orphanage at Bath 3 years; No relations; Rev. G. B., St. Catherine's Ontario, bound over for service; Presbyterian minister; 10 years in present place; has one child. 1871 - TARBOY, Maria, 13, England, with Rev George BURSON, District 21; Subdist B; Div 2; Pg73, St. Catharines Town, Ontario - Lincoln County. LAC 9922. 1878 Rye Report - #52, married. 1875 Letters - What the People Say About The Children - pg 22 Manse, St. Catherine’s We are very much pleased with Maria, and she appears to be contented and happy. I am delighted to hear of your success, and rejoice with you, and the more so that the children from your Western Home with the families in St. Catherine’s are doing well, and making your enterprise deservedly popular. Mrs Burson joins with me in kind regrds. Yours truly, Rev G Burson. 1875 Letters - What the Children Say - Children from Bath Orphanage - pg 39/40 (transcribed as written) St Catherine’s, (St CathArines) Dec. 21st. 1870. My Dear Miss Rye: I surpose you have been expecting a letter from me. By this time you will have lost a great many of your children. They are growing less and less every time one is taken from you, so you have not got so-much trouble to count such a lot. Please will you tell me where Alice as gone? Send me her address Please; or as she not gone yet? I hope she will be happy wherever she goes. I like my home very much. I go to Mr Burson’s church, and to his Sunday school. I learn church catechism, a hymn, and some passages of Scripture. I like to go to Sunday school very much; indead. I like everything, it is all so pleasant hear. I am getting to know a great deal about the town; Mrs Burson sends me for a great many messages, and I take the little boy I have to nurse out to differant places. Please, Miss Rye, will you come and see us as soon as you can, I should so like to see you. I surpose the matron as gone home by this time. I am shure the children were very sorry to leave her. When you write to her, will you give my love to her please? I hope you are quite well, and all the children; we are all well in this house, and I hope they are all well in your house. I think I must say good-night, as I am getting sleepy. I remain your sincear friend; Sarah Maria Talbot. William ParrotPARROTT, William 16 M SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 Placements for William First Party Report - 1869 - #69. William Parrott; 15; a mother living; Feltham 3 years; a mother; with J.W., Esq., River View, London, Canada West; in service; been in present place 10 years. 1871 Census - PALLOTT, WILLIAM; 18, England, CE, servant, with J B TAYLOR, Westminster Twp. Middlesex County,. District 9; Subdist A; Div 2; Pg 82, LAC #9904. 1878 Rye Report - #66, Co Middlesex, London, stet 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 14 River View, 23 Dec 1870 My Dear Miss Rye: Your little protege duly arrived. Mr Whitehead met him at the station and brought him out. He is an uncommonly good, industrious little fellow, so intelligent and willing, and seems determined to get on in Canada. He is just the kind to do well out here, and I am sure will be well off one of these days. The industrial school deserve every support and encouragement if they turn out such promising boys. He tells me he was 16 last July. I think his previous life before he went to Feltham must have dwarfed his stature. Everything, of course, is quite new to him, and at first appeared rather formidable to him, but he will get on in time and seems very happy and contented. He speaks with great fondness of you. With best regards from all, and wishing you a very happy Christmas in your Western Home, I remain, yours sincerely, Constance Whitehead. Mary AllisonMary Jane Allison, 11, came in 1870 with Maria Rye
1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - St George’s, Hanover Square - pg 42-43 (spelling transcribed as is) Fonthill, Jan. 9th, 1871. Dear Miss Rye: I wright these few lines to you, hopeing to find you quite well. I like to be hear very well, and they are all kind to me that is here, and is Miss Alaway quite well, and please give my love to all the girls, are they all quite well? And I go to Sunday schooll every Sunday, and I have every thing I want, and there is a girl lives close to here, her name is Elizabeth Hodge, and I hope I will have some more live closer to me; and how did you spend your christmas with the girls? I had a very happy one, and I hope you did also, and are you goying back to England once more, and wish you could bring my brothers here if you could, for I would like them to be here were I am also. I thank you very much for bringing me over here, and I thank you for your kindness to me while I was with you, so no more at present. Yours affectionately, Mary J Allison Maria GrantMaria Grant, 8, came on the 1869 Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 from Liverpool arriving at Quebec Nov 8.
1878 Rye Report - #5-32,United States, dead Following are 2 letters regarding Maria. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, 14th April, 1875. Dear Friend: Your circular has been too long unanswered, not, however from intentional neglect, but we are living in a small inland place, where we have no artist, and consequently we have been unable to comply with your request to all; the weather, too, has been extremely inclement during our winter. So that is one excuse we have to offer. As to the misrepresentations of Mr Doyle, so far as we are concerned, his representations are entirely at variance with the facts. Our girls have greatly improved, having been treated more like adopted children than like servants; they are as well dressed when at church as most of the children of parents in good circumstances anywhere; they are cheerful and happy, none having excessive labour to perform. The one I have, Maria Grant is a delicate child; growing very rapidly in height, but naturally quite thin; she calls me Pa and my wife Ma. I read your letter to her and asked her what she thought of it? She laughed very heartily at such a misrepresentation of matters, at least as far as we here are concerned. As soon as it is possible I will have the potograph taken and forwarded to you. I hope you will succeed in refuting any statements contrary to facts, and that our good work may prosper always. My wife desires to be remembered. Yours truly, Geo Latimer, MD. George HarrisGeorge HARRIS, 16 , came Oct 28 1869 on the SS Hibernian arriving in Quebec Nov 8. First Party Report - 1869 - #70. George Harris; 15; orphan; in Feltham 3 years; no living relations; Rev. C.B., Woodstock, Canada West; in service; been in present place 5 years. ( C.B. is Charles Bancroft as below letter.) 1871 Census - HARRIS, GEORGE 16, England, with Adam GORDON, Woodstock Twn., Oxford County, District 14, Subdist E, Div 2, Pg 92. 1878 Rye Report - #67, Co Oxford 1881 Census (cb) Brantford, Brant South, Ontario, FHL 1375899, LAC 13263, Dist 159, SubDist A, Div 6, Pg 51 George HARRIS, 24, English, Ontario, Merchant, Church of England - boarding with John C. PALMER, Widow, 45, English, Nova Scotia, Hotel Keeper, Church of England. Below are 2 letters one written by George himself and one by his first guardian Charles Bancroft. 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - pg 30/31 Wood Stock, August, 1870. Dear Friend: I write to you to let you know I have left Mr Bancroft, because the girl's so cross, and I could not do anything to pleas (sic) her while Mr Bancroft and Mrs Bancroft was away, too; and as soon as Mr Brancroft came home, and he want to know why I want to leave for, and I told him: and I wait their until he got a boy and I got a place, and I lik (sic) it very much indeed, because I work in the store for Mr. Gordon, and I sleep their too; and I suppose you will soon go after some more boys and girls. And Mr Bancroft is very glad to hear I like my place so well, but you can send the lettle (sic) to Mr Bancroft, and he let it be their until I go for it. George Harris. 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 10 Woodstock, 20th December, 1870. My Dear Miss Rye: George Harris, whom you so kindly sent me last December, left me some time ago, at his own request, in consequence of a disagreement he had with the cook. He turned out so well that I am anxious to get another of your boys, if you have one that you can thoroughly recommend. I see George constantly. He is in a grocer's shop, and is getting on very well, as far as I can hear, giving good satisfaction. Will you kindly let me know at once whether you have a boy or not, as I am without one now? With best wishes for the success of your charitable undertaking, and the prayer that you may experience a double portion of God's blessing upon yourself, I am, sincerely yours, Charles Bancroft, Jun. Charlotte LampinCharlotte LAMPIN, 10, arrived on the SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 arriving Quebec Jul 25. She was from the 1870 Bristol City Union who paid £11 for her and others to come. Her brother James Lampin, 14, from Bristol came on the Prussian, July 1871 with Annie Macpherson. What the Children Say About the People - pg 35 To Mrs Greatorex, Matron, Bristol Union Workhouse. August 5th, 1870. We all got over the ocean very safe, and we did not have one storm, and I were sick for one day. I like it very well. As we were coming over we had very good food - more than we wanted. We had for Sunday tea and bread and butter for breakfast, and for dinner plum-pudding and roast meat and potatoes and bread. Please recommend my brother to Miss Rye, and please give him my kind love, and will you tell him not to fret about me? I have a very good home and a very good mistress, and I think if he come I shall be waiting for him, and there will be lots of ladies and gentlemen. Please give my kind love to ... and .... and to Miss ... and to the nurse of the infants, and receive the same yourself. I hope the next letter will be a little better. I was a shame to send this paper, only I remembered it would be waste of paper. Charlotte Lampin. 1871 Census - LAMPKIN, Charlotte, 10, England, with George BALL, County Treasurer, District 21, Subdist B, Div 2, Pg 67, St. Catharines, Lincoln County. LAC 9922. 1875 Inspection Report - Drummondville Centre, Mrs Pew, Inspector, 16, Bristol Workhouse 1870, MC, goes to Church and Sunday School, with Mrs Henry Woodruffe, St Davids, not adopted, paid $3 by month, here 5 years, housework. Good home, well liked, strong healthy girl.
St George's Workhouse Correspondence 1872Correspondence from St George's Hanover Square Union
22 boys and 4 girls were sent in 1872 Reference: LMA (London Metro Archives) - St George's Hanover Square - We/BG/SG/6-7 Maria Rye Co-ordinators Gail Collins 1868 - 1879 [email protected] Chris Sanham 1880 - 1896 [email protected] 7th February 1872. Several relatives of children recently sent to Canada having complained that they do not know their present address or anything about them, your Committee suggest that Miss Rye be requested to furnish the Clerk to the Guardians with the addresses of all children sent out with her by this Union such addresses to be sent in every six months for a period to be determined by this Board." (Unfortunately no original correspondence with this information seems to have been kept.) Wednesday July 10th 1872. A letter was read from Miss Rye enquiring if measles had broken out amongst the children at the schools. It was resolved that Miss Rye be informed measles had been in Richmond House but at the present time there were no cases and further that the boys going to Canada had been in the Broadway House where no cases of measles had occurred. A further letter was read from Miss Rye asking for a list of the boys about to emigrate with her to Canada on the 16th instant and stating that the passage money for boys over 12 years of age from London to Saint John would be £8-12-6 each and those under 12 £8-6-3 each and asking for a cheque for the amount. Wherupon it was unanimously resolved that the several poor persons whose names are hereunder written residing in the Saint George's Union and being desirous of emigrating to Canada the necessary steps be immediately taken to effect the emigration and that a sum not exceeding £11 per head be expended for each person and be charged upon the Common Fund of the Union. George Harris
George HARRIS, 16, came on the Hibernian leaving Liverpool 28 Oct 1869 arriving at Quebec Nov 8. From reports, census and letters it appears George had 3 placements. 1. First Party Report - 1869 - #70. George Harris; 15; orphan; at Feltham 3 years; no relations living; with Rev. C.B., Woodstock, Canada West; in service; been in present place 5 years. (Rye often used ''initials'' in reports, eg Rev. C.B. (unknown). 2. Charles Bancroft in Woodstock (see letters below) 3. - 1871 Census - HARRIS, GEORGE 16, England, with Adam GORDON, Woodstock Twn., Oxford County, District=14; Subdist E; Div 2; Pg 92. (age discrepancy - still 16?) 4. George Harris - 1878 Rye Report - #67, Co Oxford (now in his 20's & on his own.) 1881 Census (could be) Brantford, Brant South, Ontario, Canada, Source: FHL Film 1375899 NAC C-13263 Dist 159 SubDist A Div 6 Page 51 Family 295 George HARRIS, 24, English, Ontario?, Merchant, Church of England - boarding with John C. PALMER, Widow, 45, Nova Scotia, Hotel Keeper, Church of England. 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - pg 30/31 Wood Stock, August, 1870. Dear Friend: I write to you to let you know I have left Mr Bancroft, because the girl’s so cross, and I could not do anything to pleas (sic) her while Mr Bancroft and Mrs Bancroft was away, too; and as soon as Mr Brancroft came home, and he want to know why I want to leave for, and I told him: and I wait their until he got a boy and I got a place, and I lik (sic) it very much indeed, because I work in the store for Mr. Gordon, and I sleep their too; and I suppose you will soon go after some more boys and girls. And Mr Bancroft is very glad to hear I like my place so well, but you can send the lettle (sic) to Mr Bancroft, and he let it be their until I go for it. George Harris. 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 10 Woodstock, 20th December, 1870. My Dear Miss Rye: George Harris, whom you so kindly sent me last December, left me some time ago, at his own request, in consequence of a disagreement he had with the cook. He turned out so well that I am anxious to get another of your boys, if you have one that you can thoroughly recommend. I see George constantly. He is in a grocer’s shop, and is getting on very well, as far as I can hear, giving good satisfaction. Will you kindly let me know at once whether you have a boy or not, as I am without one now? With best wishes for the success of your charitable undertaking, and the prayer that you may experience a double portion of God’s blessing upon yourself, I am, sincerely yours, Charles Bancroft, Jr. Lucy Skinner
Lucy SKINNER, 13 came on the SS Prussian 1871 leaving Liverpool Jun 15 & arriving Jun 26 at Quebec.
1871 Census - England - Bristol Workhouse in Stapleton Lucy Skinner, 16, birth place unknown. May 22 1871 Bristol Union paid £12 each for Lucy and others to come with Maria Rye Following is a letter Lucy wrote - errors are not mine! 1875 Letters - What the Children Say About Canada Mrs Johnson, Grafton, July the 28th, 1871. Dear Miss Rye: I hope you are quite well and happy, as I am myself. I arrived at my new home all safe, and thankful to say I have a kind mistress and master, and I have a very good home. I have a little baby boy five months old to nurse, and I like him very much. Dear Miss Rye, I do not know how to show my love towards you. I should very much like to do something for you, as you has been very kind to us all; give my kinds love to Miss Halaway, (Geraldine Alloway - at Our Western Home) and tell her I am quite happy. Dear Miss Rye, I go to sunday school, and my teacher is very kind to me, and I has been to visit her, and she has given me plenty of fruit, and she is going to give me a present in the winter, if she lives so long. Dear Miss Rye, give my kind love to Ellen Connore, and tell her I am quite happy, and tell her I will try to wright to her soon. Dear Miss Rye, please excuse me keeping you so long before I wrote to you. I was wating to see how I would get on. Give my kind love to Mrs Kiss, and tell her I am happy at present. Please, Miss Rye, excuse my bad righting. I hope I shall see you some howe, if not on earth I hope in heaven, so I have no more to say at present, so I remain your loving friend, Lucy Skinner Please feel free to comment or to add your own letters that maybe in your possession. For those of us that don't have such letters or records of our BHC's it is heartening to read about them. Sarah HARDING
Sarah HARDING, 14 came on the SS Prussian arriving at Quebec 25 July 1870. A sister Clara, 9 months and brother George, 11 also came on the same ship. S E Harding, aged 14, was picked up from London streets. She had been living with two others (one a baby of three months) all alone, in a room in Whitechapel. The following 2 letters are from Sarah. What is interesting is that Sarah sends Maria Rye 25 cents. September 8th, 1870. Sarah Edith Harding at Rev John Murray, Grimsby, Canada West. Dear Miss Rye: I write hoping to find you better, as we heard in the paper that you were very sick, and how is the dear baby, and is she gone? Please would you send me my brother's address, so I may write to him? I am getting stronger, and I like my place very well. How are all the girls? Would you write and tell me if the baby as gone; if she is, will you tell me what place? Mrs Murray is very kind to me. I often wish I was back in England again; I wish I could go back. I have no more to say, so will you write and tell me all I ask you? S E Harding. _____________________________________________ Sarah Edith Harding to Miss Rye. Please to axcept this twenty five cents, part of my first wages. I have a good home, and have plenty of every thing. I should like to help a little to bring some other orphan who want a home at Canada. I am quite well and strong now. I thank you for your kind wishes. I am going down to Jordan to see the baby today*. I send my respects and love to you. Sarah Harding. * Her sister of 9 months, came over with her and the other children. In a 1878 report Clara is still in Lincoln County In a 1878 report George was in Montreal, Quebec
Mary Jan Aston
Mary Jan Aston, 15 came on the SS Prussian June 15 1871 arriving Jun 26. Prior to that on May 17 1871, denoted as Deserted, Wolverhampton Union paid £12 for her to come to Canada with Maria Rye.
Below is a letter written to Miss Rye. Wednesday Evening, July 26th 1871. My Dear Miss Rye, I take up my pen just to write a few lines to you, hoping you are quite well. Dear Miss Rye, I want to tell you that I have left Mrs Bates because the children would not take to me, and Mrs. Bates said that she had better not keep me, and the I got another place, and I am at a very good place, as well as I want, for the mistress is a nice lady, and I have got a good many companions, for the young ladys are so kind to me that I can do all in my power for them; I don’t mind work as long as I have got a good place, and I live at Mr. Gibbons’, in St. Catherine’s, and I have not more to say at present only that I am doing very well at present, so now I must close my short letter with love to all. I have been here one week on Friday, and when I have been here a little longer I will tell you more about it, so good-bye and God bless you. From your well-wisher, Mary Jane Aston. Give my love to all the girls, and Mary Martin, if you happen to see her. 1878 Rye Report - #353, no account, married & has 2 servants of her own. Kate Stewart1885 Letter from Kate Stewart, Home Child with Miss Rye, to her Brother John
Westminster Dec 11th 85 [1885] Dear Brother Johnny, I received your letter & was very pleased to hear from you, & hope you will write again soon & tell me any news of mother & all that you can – I hope you are doing well. I am very well – & very comfortable going to school now again regularly. Mrs. Phillips was very sick a long time & I had to stay at home to help her. Next Wednesday is our examination at school. Our teacher is going to leave this Christmas & next year we are to have a gentleman teacher. We had a large party on 3rd November. Mrs. Phillips niece was married here – we had about 50 guests. I had a splendid time. They were married in the evening about half past 8 o’clock. I have a good time. Mrs. Phillips is very kind to me – we have plenty of apples and all kinds of fresh fruit especially raspberries & lots of ducks, chickens, turkeys &c. I help Mrs. Phillips with all kinds of work. She wants me to grow up useful. There is a ‘Home’ near here called the ‘Guthrie Home’; the children come from Mr. Middlemore’s home at Birmingham. One of the girls goes to school with me. I know a girl who came from Miss Ryes some years ago. Now she is grown up & gets 7 dollars a month & is such a neat tidy girl I hope I shall be able to get such wages some time. Can you tell me when my birthday is please? I give my love to all & with love I am your affe sister Kate. Notes: Kate Stewart was a home child brought over on the SS Parisian in April 1882 by Miss Rye. She was placed with Dan and Mary Phillips of Westminster, London Ontario - an elderly couple who took in other home children. Kate would have been 13 when she wrote to her brother Johnny, 17, back in England. Johnny, my great grandfather, lost touch with her and always regretted failing to maintain contact. Kate is lost to the family forever... unless someone out there knows different. |
Lucy SkinnerSKINNER, Lucy 13 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26
1871 Census - England - Bristol Workhouse in Stapleton Lucy Skinner, 16, birth place unknown. May 22 1871 Bristol Union paid £12 TNA - MH12/3872 1875 Letters - What the Children Say About Canada - pg 27 Mrs Johnson, Grafton, July the 28th, 1871. (Grafton is Northumberland County) (perhaps ? Mrs Johnson is Lucy's placement?) Dear Miss Rye: I hope you are quite well and happy, as I am myself. I arrived at my new home all safe, and thankful to say I have a kind mistress and master, and I have a very good home. I have a little baby boy five months old to nurse, and I like him very much. Dear Miss Rye, I do not know how to show my love towards you. I should very much like to do something for you, as you has been very kind to us all; give my kinds love to Miss Halaway, (Geraldine Alloway - at Our Western Home) and tell her I am quite happy. Dear Miss Rye, I go to sunday school, and my teacher is very kind to me, and I has been to visit her, and she has given me plenty of fruit, and she is going to give me a present in the winter, if she lives so long. Dear Miss Rye, give my kind love to Ellen Connore, and tell her I am quite happy, and tell her I will try to wright to her soon. Dear Miss Rye, please excuse me keeping you so long before I wrote to you. I was wating to see how I would get on. Give my kind love to Mrs Kiss, and tell her I am happy at present. Please, Miss Rye, excuse my bad wrighting. I hope I shall see you some howe, if not on earth I hope in heaven, so I have no more to say at present, so I remain your loving friend, Lucy Skinner 1878 Rye Report - #383, married Empire & Emigration by Marion Diamond - mentioned on pg 230 Lucy Skinner Birth Place: England Age: 19 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855 Father Name: Francis Skinner Mother Name: not known Spouse Name: David James Drinkwater Spouse's Age: 22 Spouse Birth Place: Haldimand Spouse Father Name: Lyman Drinkwater Spouse Mother Name: Elizabeth Hall Marriage Date: 1 Oct 1874 Marriage Location: Northumberland and Durham Archives of Ontario Microfilm: MS932_15 1891 Census Northumberland West Subdistrict: Haldimand Lucy Drinkwalter Age: 36 Birth Year: abt 1855 Birthplace: Wales Relation to Head of House: Wife Religion: Methodist French Canadian: No Father's Birth Place: England Mother's Birth Place: England David Drinkwalter 40 Lucy Drinkwalter 36 Charles Drinkwalter 16 Elizabeth Drinkwalter 14 William Drinkwalter 11 Marsh Drinkwalter 8 David Drinkwater Death Date: 7 Jul 1918 Death Location: Hastings Age: 70 Gender: Male Estimated Birth Year: abt 1848 Birth Location: Centertan Haldimand Co Archives of Ontario Microfilm: MS935_243 Name: Lucy (Skinner) Drinkwater Birth Place: Wales England Age: 64 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855 Father Name: Frank (Skinner) Drinkwater Mother Name: unknown Spouse Name: Lafayette Leroy Van Wicklen Spouse's Age: 64 Spouse Birth Place: Brighton Township Spouse Father Name: Garret Van Van Wicklen Phoebe Thiery Van Wicklen Spouse Mother Name: Van Wicklen Marriage Date: 10 Dec 1919 Marriage Location: Hastings Archives of Ontario Microfilm: MS932_491 Lafayette Leroy Vanwicklen Death Date: 20 Feb 1930 Death Location: Hastings Age: 75 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855 Birth Location: Brighton, Ontario Edith RobinsonROBINSON, Edith 12 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26
Jun 18 1871, St. Georges's Union paid £11, Mother in workhouse (sister of Kate Robinson 10 in Port Dalhousie) 1875 Inspection Report - Drummondville Centre, Mrs Pew, Inspector, 17, St Geo Hanover Sqr 1871, MC, goes to Church & Sunday School, with Geo Clement, St. Davids, not adopted, paid $4 a mo, here 3 years, housework. Good girl, well liked and well cared for. 1878 Annual Peckham Report - Letters - The first letter is from a St. George's, Hanover-Square, girl, who left in 1871. Mr G Clement, St. David's, Ontario, 5 March, 1878 Dear Miss Rye: I now sit down to write these few lines to you. I hope they will find you quite well and happy, as I am glad to say they leave me, and I write this letter to ask you a very great favour, and I earnestly hope you will grant it. The other night, as I was looking over the paper, I saw a piece in it about you. I therefore looked at it. It said you were going back to England in the spring for another party of children, and I want to ask you if I can go with you as a servant, and if you will take me with you I will do all I can for you, and all that lies in my power to help to get the children out of the workhouse. I am afraid I have taken a great liberty in asking you, but please send me an answer, and with fond love I close my letter, and I remain, yours truly, EDITH ROBINSON Mary Ann ColeCOLE, Mary Ann 15 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26 Jun 5 1871, Ann Cole, Orphan, Fareham Union paid £12 1875 Letters -What the People say about the Children - pg 6/7 Newcastle, Ontario, Canada, July 4th, 1871. Mr P Taplin, Fareham, England Sir: In the "Hampshire Telgraph' of the 3rd ult., I notice your letter respecting two girls brought to Canada by Miss Rye on her return from her last visit to England. As I take a warm interest in that lady's laudable undertaking, permit me to address you on the subject. I have succeeded in securing eligible homes for a considerable number of the children, amongst whom are Alice and Mary Churcher, and another girl from your Union, Eliza Nicholson; it was certainly a fortunate occurrence when Miss Rye visited Fareham, as Mary Churcher and Eliza Nicholson are both adopted, the former into the family of a lady in easy circumstances, the latter into that of an independent gentleman, whose only daughter died some years since; both families reside in this village. And Alice Churcher is placed as a domestic in the house of an independent farmer residing within one and a half miles. I have been intimately acquainted with each of the families for more than twenty years, and am quite satisfied that the children put in their charge will receive proper treatment. The girls will have frequent opportunities to see each other: The two sisters were together on Saturday last, and called at my house, and thanked me for the interest I had taken in their behalf, and appeared to be perfectly happy and contented with their lot. More than half of the children for whom I have secured homes are adopted, principally into the homes of persons of middle age, whose own families have married, and who now wish to have a young person in the house with them; others again by persons without family. As the advantages to the girls thus brought to Canada may not be property understood in your part of England, and the information I am in a position to give may be satisfactory to their friends, should you deem it advisable, you are quite at liberty to establish this communication. Respectfully yours, John J Robson, Reeve of Newcastle, Co Durham, Ontario. P.S. - I find since writing that three other girls from your Union are placed in this village, viz., two Goddards and Mary Ann Cole, the latter with Rev Mr Brent, rector of this parish. J.J. Robson 1875 Letters -What the People say about the Children - pg 7 In connection with the above communication I can fully corroborate all the above statements made by Mr. Robson. The present position of all the children left here by Miss Rye is in every respect greatly superior to that which they could hope to attain in England. Henry Brent, M.A. Rector of Clarke. Doyle's Report - Responses from Maria Rye, 8 Feb 1875 - Page 27. "A.C. Address lost," & c. Ann Cole. See Synopsis, No 309. Girl 20 years old. 1878 Rye Report - #309-27, Co Wentworth, lost sight of Mary Jane AstonASTON, Mary Jane 15 F SS Prussian 1871 Jun 15 - Jun 26 May 17 1871, Deserted, Wolverhampton Union paid £12 1875 Letters - What the Children Say About Canada Wednesday Evening, July 26th 1870.(sb 1871). My Dear Miss Rye, I take up my pen just to write a few lines to you, hoping you are quite well. Dear Miss Rye, I want to tell you that I have left Mrs Bates because the children would not take to me, and Mrs. Bates said that she had better not keep me, and the I got another place, and I am at a very good place, as well as I want, for the mistress is a nice lady, and I have got a good many companions, for the young ladys are so kind to me that I can do all in my power for them; I don't mind work as long as I have got a good place, and I live at Mr. Gibbons', in St. Catherine's, and I have not more to say at present only that I am doing very well at present, so now I must close my short letter with love to all. I have been here one week on Friday, and when I have been here a little longer I will tell you more about it, so good-bye and God bless you. From your well-wisher, Mary Jane Aston. Give my love to all the girls, and Mary Martin, if you happen to see her. 1878 Rye Report - #353, no account, married & has 2 servants of her own 2 children Welland County Philip Henry Wilson 11 Jul 1874 Henry Wilson, Mary Jane Aston Gertrude Frances Agusta Wilson 14 May 1876 Henry Wilson,Mary Jane Aston 1880 Home in 1880: Buffalo, Erie, New York Henry Wilson 39 England Mary Wilson 25 England William J. Wilson 6 Getrude Wilson 4 Emma MatonMATON, Emma 9 F SS Prussian 1871 - July 28 1871 Census - Islington St Mary Workhouse Emma Maton, 8 scholar, unknown July 18 1871 Islington Union paid £10 1875 Inspection Report - Drummondville Centre, Mrs Pew, Inspector, 16, Islington Workhouse 1871, CE, goes to Church & Sunday School, with Mrs Brown, Drummondville, not adopted, usual terms, here 4 years. This girl is well liked, her employer is a merchant, good home. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Drummondville, 5th May, 1875. Madam, With great satisfaction I comply with your request, made to me thru Mrs Coulson. Emily Maton has been under my care three years, during which time an affection has grown between her and my family which I should be sorry to see destroyed. In moral and physical care she shares equally with my children. Her health has been perfect, and although early misled makes it more difficult, yet for the sake of having a servant of my own training, I am willing to take extra trouble and care. In conclusion, I may add that my highest ambition for her is to make her a healthy, useful, Christian-woman, and though her Prayer-book was put aside, not because of anything wrong in it, but being Nonconformists, it is not used in our more simple form of worship, and whilst endeavouring to impress the truth upon her daily, as I need it at the same time, no undue influence will be used to make her unite herself with any denomination against her own firm convictions. I remain, Yours respectfully, Mrs H Brown 1891 Census Stamford, Welland County Henry Brown 58 Isabel Brown 42 Eliza Brown 27 Harry Brown 12 George Brown 11 Isabella Brown 8 Grace Brown 6 Margret Davey 76 Emily Maton 19 abt 1862, England Baptist Letitia JustJUST, Letitia 11 F SS Prussian 1871 - July 28 - Aug 7
1871 Census - Islington St Mary Workhouse Letitia Just, 11, scholar, unknown Jul 18 1871 Islington Union paid £10 What the People say about the Children - pg 7 Grand Trunk Railway, Bowmanville Station, 28th Auguest, 1871. Miss Rye, Niagara. Dear Madam: A Mr Beacock, of Cartwright, called on me this evening, inquiring if a girl from your Home arrived at our station on Saturday, and showed me your letter; but I would understand it was Saturday, 2 Sept., and that he was to send funds to pay for the girls's passage here; so he gave me 2 dollars for that purpose, which I inclose; if any more he will pay it. I promised him I would see to the girl until I got him word; if not in at the time, if you be kind enough to let me know what day the girl was to leave. The girl Letitia Just, whom Mr Robson assigned to us, from first appearance we are agreeably surprised, and do not think we could have found one to answer us better if we had picked them all over ourself. She seems very fond of Mrs Christie and also of our two little girls, more especially the youngest - a little girl of 15 months old, which I am sorry to say has been very sick this three days back, and Letitia seems as fond as if she had been her sister, and is a very kind and dutiful girl as any one wishes to have about a house. She wrote to her governess at the school from which she came from in London, expressing herself well pleased with her place, and we are certainly well pleased with her so far. And her half-sister, who is with Mrs Pollard, Mrs Christie's sister, is equally well pleased. If there is anything I can assist you at any time in your kind undertaking, I shall be most happy to do so. Yours truly, J Christie. (half-sister to Emma Hall with James Pollard, Orono, Durham County) 1881 Census - Letitia St. JUST, 20 England, CE, servant, with Arthur CHRISTIANSON, freight clerk, Port Hope Town, Northumberland County Lettie R. S. Just (parents unknown) Spouse Name: George L. Edmunds Marriage Date: 9 Mar 1882 Marriage Location: Port Hope Registration Number: 36460 1891 Census Durham East Port Hope Letitia Edmunds 29 abt 1862 England Baptist George Edmunds 31 Harvie Edmunds 8 George L Edmunds 2 1901 Census Durham East, Port Hope Letitia Edmunds Widowed 38 10 Jul 1862 England Imm 1872 Baptist Harvey Edmunds 18 George L Edmunds 12 Clarence V Edmunds 7 Ester L M Edmunds 5 John W. Edmunds 3 George Lovell Edmonds Death Date: 7 May 1900 Death Location: Northumberland Estimated birth year: abt 1860 Birth Location: Port Hope, Ontario 1911 Census Durham Port Hope, Sherbourne St Letitia Edmunds England George Edmunds 22 Louisa Edmunds 25 John W Edmunds 11 EDMUNDS, George L. Mt Lawn Memorial Gardens (Block 6) Durham Whitby Sarah Jane HaslarHASLAR, Sarah Jane 18 F SS Nestorian 1871 Oct 24 - Nov 10 to Halifax, NS Oct 14 1871, Alverstoke Union paid £12 1875 Letters News Brunswick Fredericton, NB. 5th May, 1875. Dear Miss Rye: It is with much pleasure I write you these few lines. I am very sorry to find by your letter and by the papers that Mr Doyle has made so sad a mistake, by saying that those children do not look so well in this country as in the English poor-houses. I, myself, think that he has done very wrong by circulating such false reports, and making very little of the kindness of yourself and the Americans, who are, I think, the kindest people in all the world. I know I have found them so; and they all, that ever I heard speak of your name, respect you very much and think that you have done a great deal of good in the sight of God and man, and I am sure I very happy and contented. I wrote home and told the guardians at Gosport that this was a lovely county, and to send the children out, and that they would get good places. Dear Miss Rye, I think Mr Doyle is very ungrateful. I was thinking you have had a great deal of anxiety and care in looking after these children, and I should very much like to have your picture, and I have sent you off my picture. I remain, yours very truly, Sarah Jane Haslar. Annie WatsonWATSON, Annie 14 F SS Nestorian 1871 Oct 24 - Nov 10 to Halifax, NS 1871 Census - England - Islington St Mary Workhouse - Middlesex, England Anne Watson, 14, Scholar, born St Mary Islington Oct 4 1871, Orphan, Islington Union paid £10 1875 Letters from the Province of News Brunswick Fredericton, NB, 10th April, 1875. Miss M S Rye: Your communication was received in due time. The girl we have is honest, kind and truthful, although not what we hoped she would be in every particular; yet we are pleased to say that she is much improved as you may suppose by looking at her photograph. In reply to the observations of Mr Doyle, I must emphatically say, - their (the girls') situation in this country is decidedly better than where they came from. With great respect, I am, Yours very truly, M S Hall. 1878 NB/NS Report - 19, born London, Orphans Home before coming 1871 with Miss Rye, Meth, goes to Church & Sunday School, adopted, here 5 years, housework, with Moses Hall, Esq, Fredericton. See Remarks No 16. April 19 1878 NS/NB Report that were omitted last year. No. 16. ANNIE WATSON WAS obliged to leave Mr Halls' to get into the Hospital where for sometime it was feared she would lose her sight. Altogether, she is a very good girl but may yet lose her sight. 1881 Census New Brunswick York Fredericton Carleton Ward Moses S. Hall 37 Fannie Hall 35 Annie Watson 21 England Jane AlverALVER, Jane 14 F SS Nestorian 1871 Oct 24 - Nov 10
1889 Annual Peckham Report - Letters The writer, a Portsea Island girl, left her workhouse in 1871. Neold, USA, Oct 1889. Dear Miss R., It is a very long time since you have heard from me. Possibly you have quite forgotten the Jane A. whom you brought to Canada so many years ago. But Western Iowa proved a good place for me, and the little girl who was taken back to you with such bad character from Mrs S-----s, has failed to fulfil all the dire predictions that were prophesied of her then. I found a good opening to work for my board in Iowa, and to go to school, completed the course of studies, gained a teacher's certificate, and have been a teacher since 1881, and was last week most happily married to the assistant cashier of the bank in this town, and occupy the position of a loved and happy wife in the snug little home of a most highly respected young man. I send this little note with the paper that contains the notice of our marriage. Yours very cordially, Mrs J.H. Mary RichardsRICHARDS, Mary 11 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25
What the Children Say Abut Canada - Kirkdale - pg 48 Dear Miss Rye: I hope you are quite well as it leaves me at present. Mrs and Mr Jenkinson are very kind to me, and I like them very much. Please will you bring my brother next time, Joseph Richards, Industrail (sic) Schools, Kirkdale, Liverpool? I could get him a place near me. Be sure, Miss Rye, that you bring him. I send my kind love to all the children. Please to answer this before you go, and this is my address: - Thorold, Ontario. I remain, dear Miss Rye, yours truly, Mary Richards. (Joseph Richards came on the Prussian 1871 June 26) 1871 Census - RICHARDS, MARY, 13, England, with Thomas JENKINSON, Hotel Keeper, Thorold Village, Welland County 1875 Inspection Report - St. Catharines Centre, Rev G Burson, Inspector, Kirkdale Workhouse 1870, with Joseph Reasley, Port Robinson 1881 Census -(cb) Mary RICHARDS, 19, Wales, with J WHITE, Milliner, Welland MARRIAGE Mary Richards Birth Place: Watertown Age: 25 Estimated birth year: abt 1860 Father Name: William Richards Mother Name: Mary Richards Spouse Name: William Vanderburgh Spouse's Age: 43 Spouse Birth Place: Thorold (Twp) Spouse Father Name: William Vanderburgh Spouse Mother Name: Nettie Vanderburgh Marriage Date: 23 Dec 1885 Marriage Location: Welland 1891 Census Welland William Vanderburg 45 Mary Vanderburg 30 abt 1861 Birthplace: England Jennie Vanderburg 4 Harry Vanderburg 2 DEATH Vanderburgh, Mary, Welland, , page 4, 25/08/1894, D. William Vanderburgh Death Date: Jan 1923Death Location: Welland Age: 82 abt 1841 Birth Location: Allenburg - informant son Harry Mary A ReynoldsREYNOLDS, Mary A 12 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 What the Children Say About Canada - St Giles' Refuge - pg 43/44 Dear Miss Rye: I now Write these few lines to you, hoping you are in good health, as I am myself. I am going to tell you how I enjoyed myself on Christmas at my new home. We had every thing that we wanted that was beautifull (sic) at the dinner table, and the tea table also we had Cakes and Candy, and Cherries and Bread and Butter, and every thing that we wanted. Dear Miss Rye, I am very glad to tell you that my Mistress and Mastres (sic) has been very kind to me, and if I am a good girl they will like me better, and I am very glad to tell you that my Mistress told me and her little boy to put a plate up stairs, and in the Morning we would find a plate full of Candy and Cakes, and I had a new apron, and her little boy a pare (sic) of pants. Dear Miss Rye, the reason I didn't write was because my Mistress wanted to see how we got along with one another. I am going to tell you that Miss L Winton and my Mother wrote to me before Christmas, and they are quite well. I have no more to say at present, so I must Conclud (sic) with kind love, I remain, Your loving Child, M A Reynolds What the Children Say About Canada - St Giles' Refuge - pg 44 Dear Miss Rye: I Now take my pen in hand to tell you that my Mistress and Master has been very kind to me. Dear Miss Rye, I thank you and Miss Hollaway for all your kindness to me, and I am very glad to tell you that we have every thing that we want. Dear Miss Rye, I am very glad to tell you that I like the place very much indeed, and I am very happy. Dear Miss Rye, I am very glad to tell you my Mistresses daughter is very kind to me, and I like her very much indeed. Dear Miss Rye, please give my kindest love to Miss Hollaway and the servants. Dear Miss Rye, I have very interresting (sic) book to read on Sunday, and I am very glad to tell you that my Mistress talks to me about how kind God has been to us. Dear Miss Rye, I hope that you will get back to England, safe that as so you may bring the others. Dear Miss Rye, I have know (sic) more to say at present, so I must conclude with kind love. I remain your loving servant, M A Reynolds 1878 Rye Report - #175, stet, Welland (crossed out) or Monck - with same family in Dunville. Nancy NyeNYE, Nancy 5 SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 July 5 1870, Deserted, Holborn Union paid £10 Charges Against Miss M Rye - Grainer 1874 - The next statement is that I have guarded every avenue by which cases of known ill treatment, taken up not by myself but by philantropic Canadians, reach the British public. To this I reply the only 3 children I have ever had ill treated have been 1: Nancy Nye, Holborn, was away from the Home only 3 months and was returned by the people who took her at the end of that time in a very emaciated condition. This was the first case of bad treatment, and I took no action in the matter, not knowing exactly what ought to have been done. We nursed the child, and she was all right again at the end of six weeks, when we found her (in 1871) a new home T Robson, Esq., of Newcastle Durham County where she is now living, and who has provided for her by will. I produce her photograph. 1871 Census - NEIGLE, ANNIE, 6, England, with John J ROBSON, Newcastle Village, Durham County. Canadian Illustrated News May 1st, 1875 (Photograph in magazine) No. 3 NANCY, from Holborn Workhouse, who left England, in 1870. A poor plain, delicate little waif, now adopted by a wealthy gentleman who has no children of his own, and this is how little Nancy won her way in the world. A request was sent to the Home, that a specially pretty and attractive child should be sent to ...... After the usual enquiries, answer was returned, that the only child in the Home available for adoption was little Nancy, who merits and demerits were fully described, and in fear and trembling the child was sent to her new home. Great and serious was the disappointment felt on her advent in the place, and toleration was all that was felt for a few months. After a while, the lady of the house fell sick, and the child’s affectionate devotion became very apparent. "Oh!" said the step-mother, one day, as the child lay with her on the sofa, kissing and stroking the pale cheek, "do you really love me, Nancy?" "Why yes," was the ready answer, "don’t you know that I’ve no one else to love me ‘cept you and my Father in heaven." That little speech sealed the bond forever, and untold gold now could not part the foster-parents and the child. 1875 Inspection Report - New Castle Centre, John Robson, Sr, Inspector, 10, born London, lived with a lady, not workhouse before coming 1871, CE, goes to Church & Sunday School, with J J Robson, New Castle, adopted, clothing & care, here 4 years, housework. Mr Robson treats this child with every care & attention & has made provision for her. 1881 Census - Newcastle, Durham West, Ont, John J. ROBSON, 57, England, Farmer, Church of England Phebe ROBSON, 55, Ontario, Church of England Annie ROBSON, 16, England, Church of England (adopted name) Ella FLETCHER 24, England, Servant, Church of England Marriage Annie Robson Birth Place: England Age: 22 : abt 1865 Father Name: V Adopted Daughter of I Robson Mother Name: Phoebe Robson Spouse Name: Charles Wright Spouse's Age: 28 Spouse Birth Place: Port Hope Spouse Father Name: John Wright Spouse Mother Name: Jane Wright Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1887 Marriage Location: Durham Susan & Margaret MurrayMURRAY, Susan 10 SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 What the People Say About The Children - pg 21 Ailsa Cray, Sept. 5th, 1870 My Dear Miss Rye: Susan Murray arrived safely on Wednesday noon. I am happy to say that she suits us well. I am satisfied, and only hope I may be guided in training her for a life of usefulness. Yours in love, Mrs D Sheff. PS, I inclose a few lines from Susan, D.S. Dear Miss Rye: I hope you are well, I like my home much. Respectfully Susan Murray. 1871 Census - MURRAY, SUSAN, 10, England, with Dennis SHEFF, merchant, McGillivray Twp., Middlesex County, Noted in remarks column "one of Miss Rye’s immigrants. 1878 Report - #87, lost sight of, address not known MURRAY, Margaret 9 SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 1871Census - MURRAY, MARJORY, 5, England, with Arch’d HORSMAN, hardware merchant, St. Thomas Twn. Elgin County. 1875 Inspection Report - St. Thomas Center, Mrs Parish Sr, Inspector - 10, Kirkdale Workhouse 1870, CE, goes to Church and Sunday School, with R Houseman, St. Thomas, adopted, here 5 years, a nice child, in an excellent home treated as one of the family, if turns out well will be well be provided for. 1881 Census - Zorra West, Oxford North, Ontario Margaret I. MURRAY, 17, Scottish, b: Ont?, Tailoress, Presbyterian, with Daniel G. McMILLIN, 29 and Leny McMILLIN Alice McGuffyMcGUFFY, Alice 12 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 What the People Say About The Children - pg 19 Dear Miss Rye: i like my place verey wel and i am going to school next week, and my Mrs. Master is very kind to me. From Alice McGuffy. What the People Say About The Children - pg 18 Kirkwall, the 26th January, 1871 To Miss Rye: The girls arrived here the same day that they left Niagara, and we are very well pleased with the girl that you sent us, but Mrs Miller is not pleased with the girl that you sent her. She wanted a large one. She wants to know if you would not change her when you get some large ones. Thomas Watson. 1871 Census - MCGUFY, ALICE, 10, England, Presby, with Thomas WATSON, farmer, Beverly Twp, Wentworth County ON 1878 Report - #92, (McGuffie) stet, Co Brant, Newport Margaret McGuffyMargaret McGuffy 11 SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25
1871 Census - (cb) MCGUFFY, MAY, 11, England, District 19, Subdist J, Div 1, Pg 12. Stamford Twp, Welland County with Benjamin CORWIN, Farmer. 1875 Inspection Report - Woodstock Centre, Frank Ball, Inspector (Francis R Ball, Barrister), Kirkdale Workhouse 1870, with Rev Jas Chance, Newport S R, Brant (the 1871 census shows Rev Chance in Sault Ste Marie so Margaret was with this family after the 1871 census - possibly 1873 according to letter below.) 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario The Parsonage, Newport, Brant County, Ont., 3rd May, 1875. Dear Madam: Your circular was only received on Saturday evening last, and in reply thereto I would say that I will comply with your request for a photograph of the girl as soon as possible. I would say further that I deeply sympathize with you in the trouble caused you by the disparaging statements made by the England, Inspector, relative to the success of your truly noble enterprise, but I hope it effects have been more than neutralized by the consideration of the fact, that in the accomplishment of your enterprise so far, you have conferred an immense favour upon hundreds of Canadian families who have received girls from the Western Home, and an incalculable blessing on the girls themselves, and I hope you will be further stimulated by this consideration to make renewed exertions in so good a cause. The girl whom you sent to us was, I suppose, an average specimen of the girls whom you bring out from England, . When she came to us she was in her fourteenth year, but presented that stunted appearance which is so characteristic of those who in their early years have experienced "hard times," but she seems to be inspired with a happy consciousness that better and brighter days have dawned upon her. She had her faults, failings and deficiencies, but she was willing to learn and anxious to please, and she had a good disposition, so with patience, kindness and forbearance and timely instruction, she has become a most useful and valuable house-maid, and gives Mrs Chance entire satisfaction. She has also, I hope, chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her." I have heard complaints about the girls from the Western Home, but I think the great mistake is that people expect too much from them domestically, physically and morally, and meeting with disappointments in their unreasonably high and sanguine expectations, they become discouraged, and make no effort to remedy faults, and develop latent capabilities for good. The England, Inspector might truly say, that comparatively few of the girls are sent from the Home into clergymen's families, but as an Englishman I claim to know what English workhouses are, and having lived in Canada twenty-two years, I know something of what Canadian families are and knowing further the regulations of the Western Home, I can by no means agree with the English Inspector's statement, that girls sent from the Home to Canadian householders are in no better condition than they would have been in the Engllish workhouses. There may be some exceptions possibly, but as a rule, their condition and circumstances are immensely improved by their removal from England, to Canadian families. I remain, dear Madam, Yours most respectfully, Rev. James Chance. 1878 Report - #93, lost sight of, Co Carleton, Ottawa, Richmond. (See letter dated May 1880 from Paisley, Bruce County from Emily Boulger who came in 1878 - " Do you know Maggie McGuffy, the girl that was with Mrs. C before I came? She is one of your girls. She is going to get married." - (Mrs C would be Rev Chance wife.) 1881 Census - Brantford, Brant South, Ontario Percival Kingsford LINDSAY, 22, Quebec, Bank Clerk, Church of England Margaret MCGUFFEY, 22, England, Servant, Church of England children Charles Edwin Hunt 21 Dec 1884 Brant Edwin W J Hunt Margaret McGuffy Benjamin Franklin Hunt 14 Oct 1886 Brant Edwin W J Hunt Margaret McGuffy Susan, Victoria Hunt 15 Sep 1887 Brant Edwin W I Hunt Margaret McGuffy 1901 Census Ontario Brant Brantford City Edvin Hunt 40 Margaret Hunt 40 20 Apr 1860 England Imm 1870 C Of E Alex Hunt 17 Susan Hunt 13 Nellie Hunt 11 Walter Hunt 7 Margaret Hunt Death Date: 20 Jan 1926 Death Location: Brant abt 1861 Birth England Greenwood Cemetery Fanny JonesFanny JONES, 10 SS Prussian 1870 - Jul 14 - Jul What the People Say About The Children - pg 22 Listowel,Jan. 28th, 1871 Dear Miss Rye: It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to answer your kind letter, hoping to find you enjoying good health, as this leaves us all at present. I would have answered your letter before this, only I heard that you were gone to England, after more children. We like the little girl very well. We got her christened Fanny Jane after myself. I am going to send her to school as soon as the snow goes off. She is reading now in her second book. She says she would not leave us on any account. If you know, please send me the lady’s address that your got her from, for I wish to write to her, and let her know how she is getting along. She is gone so fat that you would hardly know her. She sends her kind love to you, and thanks you for sending her to us. So no more at present. Yours truly, Nathaniel and Jane Harris. Please write again. 1871 Census - JONES, JANE FANNY, 9, England, with Nathaniel HARRIS, Elma Twp, Perth County 1878 Report - #167-14, stet, Co Perth, N.R. 1881 Census Hamilton City, Wentworth County George Maddocks 39, Mary Ann Maddocks 36, Wm. H. Maddocks 14, David J. Maddocks 11, Mary E. Maddocks 8, Geo. S. Maddocks 5, Jane Jones 22 1859 England Church of England Welsh Marriage Jane Jones Birth Place: Monmouth England Age: 25 Estimated birth year: abt 1857 Father Name: David Jones - Mother Name: Sobillia Jones Spouse Name: William Grenfell (carpenter) Spouse's Age: 27 Spouse Birth Place: Hamilton Spouse Father Name: James Grenfell - Spouse Mother Name: Jane Grenfell Marriage Date: 3 Oct 1882 Marriage Location: Wentworth 1900 Census Chicago City, Cook, Illinois William Grenfell 45 Jane Grenfell 41 Birth Date: Aug 1858 England Bertha J Grenfell 17 Percy W Grenfell 12 Ada M Grenfell 11 David Servis 21 Jul 1878 England Imm Year: 1897 Nephew 1930 Census Claremont, Los Angeles, California Ralph R Uniacke 38 Bertha J Uniacke 36 Jane Grenfell 71 abt 1859 England Mother-in-law Elizabeth JacksonJACKSON, Elizabeth11 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 What the Children Say About Canada - Kirkdale - pg 48 Dear Miss Rye: I send my kind love to you, and I send my kind love to cook, and did you get a letter from my grandfather, and if you get it, pleas send it to me, dear miss rye. I am well, Misses McCall likes me very well, and please if you are ner culke house, send my dress and stokens, and I send my love to Eliza that is in the kitchen, poley, and Jane, and I send my love to that lady that is with you, and have you got meny of the girls a way? Elizabeth Jackson 1878 Report - #115-30, United States Mary Jane HaynesHAYNES, Mary Jane 12 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 July 9 1870 Bristol Union paid £11 TNA ref MH12/3871 & 3872) What the Children Say About Canada - Kirkdale - pg 45 September 28th, 1870. Miss Rye: I like my place very well, and my master and mistress is very kind to me, and a lady made one of my dresses over again, and I thank you for your kindness, and I hope you are getting on very well as I am myself. I hope you will bring out another lot from Bristol, some bigger than myself and older, and please when you go back give my kind love to all that is there, and the master is buying me cloths, (sic) and the missess is making them. Please tell me how the others are geting (sic) on. This place is a very nice one, and Eliza, the oldest, do play with me, and Lena, the youngest, do try to play too, but she must not go out when it is wet. I am sorry to say that I have done one think (sic) that is wrong, that was, I disobeyd the master. From one that you brought out of England, Mary Jane Haynes. Please to derect your letter, Homer post ofice. I forgot to tell you that me and Liza goes to church and Sunday school. 1871 Census - HAINES, MARY J, 12, Ont?, Rel XC. England, with William HAVENS, Dist 21, Subdist A, Div 1, Pg 16, Grantham Twp., Lincoln County, LAC 9921. 1875 Inspection Report - St. Catharines Centre, Rev G Burson, Inspector, Bristol Workhouse 1870, with W R Haven. Could not find this party. Empire & Emigration by Marion Diamond - pg 227, Mary Jane Haynes - her and Liza go to Church and Sunday School. Jane BrikleyBRIKSEY, Jane 16 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 What the Children Say About Canada - Clevedon - pg 41/41 Feb. 1st. Dear Madam: I now write these few lines to you, letting you know that I am quite satisfied with my place, and I have seen Emily's mistress since I have been hear, and Emily is coming over to see me the next time Mr Leman comes. I suppose you thought I had forgotten all of you. Give my duty to Miss Alloway. I have had two or three sleigh rides since I have been hear. We sleigh ride to church every Sunday. Dear Miss Rye, I am very fond of my misses and master, they are so very kind to me, and my bedroom is very comfortable, and all carpeted. I hope the baby is quite well. So no more at present. Jane Briksey (Also mentioned in letter Annie McMaster, " How is the cook, and the nurse, and Polly Standen, and Jane Brixy? I hope they are all well and happy. Tell them I send my kind love to them. And how many is there left that came out with me? (These girls came on the same ship.) 1871 Census - BRIKSEY, JANE, 16, England, District 19, Subdist C, Div 1, Pg 79. Bertie Town, Welland County with Henry DICKOUT, farmer. LAC 9919. 1878 Rye Report - #168 (Bricksay) married, Norfolk or married Lincoln Clara, Ellen & Mary Ann BennettBENNETT, Ellen 11 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 (Emma Bennett, 11)
July 9 1870, Bristol Union pd £11 TNA ref MH12/3871 & 3872 (sister of Mary Ann Bennett, 9, & Clara 5, Bristol, same ship)1871 Census - BURNETT, HELEN, 11, England, with Wm E. LINES, District 20, Subdist A, Div 1, Pg 8. Niagara Twp. Niagara County LAC 9921.What the Children Say About Canada - pg 26 St. David’s Street, July 17th, 1871. Our western home, niagari To Miss Rye. Mrs. Lines has allowed me to write to you to ask you to inform me were my sisters are, if you please i would be much obliged if you would Be kind enough to answeer my letter, my misstress and master are Both very kind, we have got wery pretty littel BaBy, how is the little BaBy that wasat ni ther (Niagara) when i was as i should like to know. So I, Ellen Bennett. (Sisters Mary Ann & Clara.)1878 Rye Report - Emma Bennett - #142, Queenston, Co Lincoln, stet BENNETT, Clara 5 F SS Prussian 1870 - Jul 14 - Jul 2 TNA, ref MH12/3871 & 3872 - Bristol Union (sister of Ellen and MaryAnn) 1878 Rye Report - #144, Ceote St Paul, Montreal, stet BENNETT, Mary Ann 9 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25July 9 1870 Bristol Union paid £11 TNA ref MH12/3871 & 3872 (sister of Ellen Bennett, 11, & Clara 5, Bristol, same ship)What the Children Say about Canada - Bristol Workhouse - page 41 Miss Rye: I am glad to tell you I have a good Home, and I hope my dear sisters will have as good a Home as I have, my mamma would like have them near to me, so that I could see them sometimes. My mama and dada is very kind to me. Please write and tell me where my sisters is. Mary Ann Bennett1871 Census - (cb) BENNET, MARY E, 10, US(?), Irish, with Partick EGAN, 28 Ire RC, RR Car Rep, District 19, Subdist L, Pg 26. Clifton Twn., Welland County LAC 9920.1875 Inspection Report - Drummondville Centre, Mrs Pew, Inspector, Mary Ann Burnett, Bristol Workhouse came 1870, with Geo Robinson, Allanburg Road, Drummondville,1878 Rye Report - #143, Co Welland, stet1881 Census - Mary Ann BENNETT, 22, England with George ROBINSON, Farmer, Stamfordcould not find these sisters in Ontario after 1881 Jessie YoungYOUNG, Jessie 10 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 July 6 1870 Chichester Union paid £12 What the People Say About The Children - pg 16 St Catherine's Ontario, February 16th, 1871. Miss Rye, Niagara, Ont.Dear Lady: Will you be so kind as to let me know if you have any little girls with you now about twelve or thirteen years old? My sister-in-law, Lawyer Hill's wife of Welland, would like very much to get one as nurse for her two little children. If you have any, Mrs Hill will come down herself. The little girl you gave us we are very much pleased with, we think her a perfect little treasure. Yours, & c., Dr. Hill. 1875 Inspection Report - St. Catharines Centre, Rev G Burson, Inspector, Chichester Workhouse 1870, with Dr Ambrose Hill, St Catharines 1881 Census - Jessie Young, 20 with John & Margaret High in Clinton, Lincoln, Ontario. Laura WarrLaura Warr, 14 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 Oct 11 1870, Bristol City Union paid £10.58 (TNA ref MH12/3872) 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About the People - pg 34/5 January 23rd, 1871. To Miss Coyle. Dear Miss Coyle: It seemed very hard at first to leave you. I was very sea-sick, and the cribs we slept in was like orange-boxes. We had very good meals in the ship, hot rolls and butter, and either coffee or cocoa every morning. Sunday we had for dinner roast beef, potatoes, and plum pudding. We were thirteen days on the water, and we had a very stormy passage. Miss Rye's house is a very large building. I stayed there five weeks, and left before Christmas. I spent my Christmas very pleasantly. My Christmas dinner was roast beef, turkey, chickens, plum-pudding, potatoes, mincepies, raisins, nuts, candies, and gingerbreads, and my New Year's the same. I like the place I am living in now very well. Mrs Major Taylor said if Miss Rye won't let her keep me, will you send her out a truthful, honest, industrious girl? Elizabeth Ball would do if she would come, she would have a very happy home. The other girls that you gave the money and papers to have given it away. I was tempted, but I did not, and every one have given away their gospels and other little books except me. This is the coldest day we have had this winter. My mistress says that the thermometer stands twenty degrees below zero. There is good sleighs, the horses flying round with bells on them. We burn wood and stoves instead of coal and grate, the fires are easier to light than coal. I am stoning raisins now, I have ten pounds. We are going to make plum-pudding to last us all the year round, and some nearly every Sunday. Perhaps I shall have to stone more. I wish you could have some. The Canadian plum-pudding is beautiful. I have scarcely anything to do, just to run an errand, make clothes for myself. I have another frock, three pinafores, two print and one cotton, and a pair of slippers, a new winter's hat, and another linen apron, and a cloud, and a Christmas present scarf and a shawl that cost two dollars, it is two hundred cents. I go to the Sunday-school and church. Please will you give Mary Ann Cook the valentine, and Elizabeth Ball and Emily Cory each one of the papers? Give my kind love to Mrs Coyle, and tell her I thank her very much, and I hope she is very well. Receive my kind love, and give all the girls the same. I hope they will be good girls, and give as little trouble as they can. I must now conclude, dear teachers, with affectionate love from, Laura Warr. Jan. 23rd, 1871. Dear Miss Rye: I was very happy after I left you. I told Jane and Harry that you sent them your kind love. I am very glad you sent me into the hands of such kind and good people. I spent a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I had for my Christmas dinner roast beef, turkey, and chickens, and vegetables, plum pudding, mince pies, raisins, nuts, and candies. I left Mrs Nellis because she thought Mrs Taylor could teach me better, and if I will learn I shall get on rapidly: it is a very large fine house, something like a mansion, and very kind is my misses and master, but I am going to tell you a sad thing. Emily is a very bad girl, she tells lies to her Mistress and Master, she dips her fingers into jams and pies, and things that do not belong to her, she makes faces behind their back, and then tells another lie afterwards, she said that she doesn't like being in Canada, and that she would rather be with her aunt in Halifax, where she can get plum pudding every Sunday. I should like staying here if you would send another to Mrs Potter. Missess told me that you would come to pay us a visit soon. I am so glad, for I won't have a chance to come and see you, receive my kind love, and give the same to Miss Allaway and the servants, with affectionate love from Laura Warr. 1871Census - WARR, LAURA, 12, England , with William TAYLOR, District 54, Subdist B, Div 2, Pg 33. Coburg Twn., Northumberland County. 1878 Rye Report - #200 married, stet Marriage John Blaby, Birth Canada Age:31 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1851 Father Thomas Blaby Mother Ann Blaby Spouse Name:Laura Ward Age:23 abt 1859 :England Father Name:Ward Mother Name:Ward Marriage Date:24 May 1882 Marriage Place:Northumberland Family History Library Microfilm:MS932_40 wit: James Paddey and Sarah Maxwell Children (Laura's surname is given as Ward but she signs letters Warr?) Northumberland County Mary Jane Blaby 23 Jan 1888 John Blaby Laura Ward Lillian Georgina Blaby 9 Jul 1892 John Blaby Laura Hard Fred Joseph Blaby 7 Apr 1894 John Blaby Laura Ward Amy Winifred Blaby 2 Apr 1896 John W Blaby Laura Ward *Alice Norma Blaby 30 Oct 1901 John William Blaby Laura Ward Norman Edward Blaby 26 Mar1883 John Blaby Laura Ward Wreta Laura Blaby 16 Jul 1885 John Blaby Laura Ward Cora Elizabeth Blaby 30 Aug 1890 John William BlabyLaura Warr reg'd 1989 by Cora (Wilson) only record with correct spelling for mom's surname Warr - mother born Bristol Eng son Norman E Blaby Death Date: 5 Oct 1900 Death Location: Northumberland Gender:Male Estimated Birth Year:abt 1883 Birth Location: Cobourg,Ont husband - John Blaby Death Date:Jan 1929 Death Location:Northumberland Gender:Male Estimated Birth Year:abt 1851 Birth Location:Canada Parents are Thomas Blaby, Ann Dear, England informant G M Ferris, MD son-law (which daughter did he marry?) 1901 Census Northumberland, Sub-District: Hamilton Name:Laura BlayGender:Female Marital Status: Married Age:43 Birth Date:25 Mar 1858 Birthplace: England Wife Immigration Year:1870 John Blay 50 Laura Blay 43 Westa L Blay 15 Mary J Blay 12 Carla E Blay 10 Fred J Blay 7 Amy W Blay 5 Mabel M Osland 24 dau Fred G E Osland 1 gdson 1911 Census Northumberland West, Cobourg Name:Laura BlabyAge:53 Birth Date:Mar 1858 Birthplace:England Relation to Head of House:Wife Immigration Year:1876 John Blaby 60 Laura Blaby 53 Reta Blaby 25 Mary Blaby 23 Cora Blaby 20 Fred Blaby 17 Amill Blaby 15 Ulen Blaby 9 Children Marriages Winifred Amice Blaby abt 1898 28 Mar 1923 Ermin Weer Cora Elizabeth Blaby abt 1894 6 Sep 1924 Melville Stewart Wilson Norma Alice Blaby abt 1902 16 Mar 1923 Edward Summerville McElroy Fred Joseph Blaby abt 1894 28 Sep 1921 Rose Mary Hill Mabel Mary Blaby abt 1877 16 Aug 1898 George Edwd Osland #2 Mary Mabel Osland abt 1876 30 Oct 1907 Martin Jex Burials - St Peter's Anglican, Cobourg, Northumberland BLABY, John W an, CobourgNorthumberlandHamiltonLSGS-023 BLABY, Lilly (no stone) BLABY, Mabel (w/o George Osland & Martin Jex) BLABY, Norman E. (no stone) Susan & Elizabeth PopePOPE, Susan 5 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 Liverpool Record Office - Classification Record - Kirkdale Ragged School (b 1865), Exit Date: 14 July 1870 What the People Say About The Children - pg 25 Customs, Fort Erie, Canada, Jan 3, 1871. Miss M S Rye, Western Home, Niagara. I inclose blank, filled up and signed by Edwy Baxter. I may add here for your staisfaction that the old lady, his mother, is much pleased with Annie Robinson, and I heard Edwy himself tell my wife, his aunt, he was well satisfied with your choice in the child sent him. Yours truly, R Graham. PS - Our little girl, Susan Pope, is very desirous of knowing where and with whom her elder sister is. Her mistress has requested me to ask you. Will you get one of your assistants to look over the records and drop a note to me embracing the information sought? 1871 Census - POPE, SUSAN, 8, England, with Richard GRAHAM, Bertie Twp, Welland County (Uses guardian's name) 1881 Census Welland Bertie Richd. Graham 72 died 1899 Margaret Graham 71 died 1884 *Mary C. Graham 25 Elisabeth Graham 23 *William Graham 21 Susan Graham 15 England 1866 C of Eng Servant 1901 Census Welland Bertie *William Graham 54 died 1908 *Mary A Graham 60 sister died 1916 Susan Pope 40 15 Jun 1860 England Ida Stridesfarry 17 14 Mar1884 England Servant Methodist (came with C of E Waifs/Strays 1896) Cannot locate Susan after 1901 - did she also go back to England as her sister had? ******************************* POPE, Elizabeth 7 F SS Prussian 1870 Jul 14 - Jul 25 Liverpool Record Office - Classification Record - Kirkdale Ragged School (b 1863), Exit Date: 14 July 1870 (Mentioned in letter from Elizabeth Chesworth - "Miss Rye, will you please tell me if you have brought out Mary Ann Law, and where she is now, also where Lizzie Pope is living?" 1875 Inspection Report - North Pelham Centre, Mrs Comfort, Inspector, Kirkdale Workhouse 1870, with Miss Mary Graham, Fort Erie 1878 Rye Report - #89, Co Perth, St Marys (crossed out) returned to England, Annie RobinsonROBINSON, Annie 9 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 (Could be sister of Mary Jane Robinson, 12 from Kirkdale, same ship) 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 21 Customs, Fort Erie, Canada, Nov. 8th, 1870. My Dear Miss Rye, Western Home, Niagara. I wrote you some two or three weeks ago, recommending a place for two of your charges, very suitable places, and I have a place for a third, very suitable, a nephew of mine, who lives with his mother, an old lady. All the parties' named in my former letter, and Mr. Edwy Baxter, now named in this, are all farmers independent circumstances, and will provide not only a permanent home, but educate the children as their own. I am well aware of your time being occupied, and do not expect answers to my letters, but will be obliged if blank applications be furrnished me, so that all preliminary forms may be complied with. These parties desire to obtain children over ten or even twelve years of age, if you have such unprovided for. I mentioned in my former letter the child Susan, taken by my daughter Mary, is doing well, and proves more than expected. Yours truly, Richard Graham. 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 25 Customs, Fort Erie, Canada, Jan 3, 1871. Miss M S Rye, Western Home, Niagara. I inclose blank, filled up and signed by Edwy Baxter. I may add here for your staisfaction that the old lady, his mother, is much pleased with Annie Robinson, and I heard Edwy himself tell my wife, his aunt, he was well satisfied with your choice in the child sent him. Yours truly, R Graham. PS - Our little girl, Susan Pope, is very desirous of knowing where and with whom her elder sister is. Her mistress has requested me to ask you. Will you get one of your assistants to look over the records and drop a note to me embracing the information sought? 1871 Census - ROBINSON, ANNA, 9, Wales?, with BAXTER, EDWY, Bertie Twp. Welland County. 1875 Inspection Report - North Pelham Centre - Mrs Comfort, Inspector; from Kirkdale, 1870, with Edw Baxter, Fort Erie. Marriage Annie Robinson Birth Place: England Age: 18 abt 1860 Father Name: Mr Robinson Mother Name: Mrs Robinson Spouse Name: William Wooliver Spouse's Age:22 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1856 Spouse Birth Place:Bertie Spouse Father Name:John Wooliver Spouse Mother Name:Margaret Wooliver Marriage Date:25 Sep 1878 Marriage Place:Welland Marriage County:Welland Family History Library Microfilm:MS932_28 Edward Baxter & Thomas Graham witnesses Children William Ivan Wooliver 5 Feb 1880 Death 19 Mar 1880 Ellen Wooliver abt 1881, Death 20 Oct 1882 Benjamin Wooliver 19 Oct 1888 Benj 'Baxter' Woolever Death 4 Nov 1894 named after Edward Baxter William Wooliver 4 Apr 1883 married Margaret Goulding, 1917 Gertrude May Wooliver 17 May 1885 1891 Welland County, Fort Erie William Wooliver 39 Annie Wooliver 30 Walter Wooliver 12 William Wooliver 8 Gertrude Wooliver 6 Benjamin Wooliver 3 1901 Census Welland Fort Erie (Village) Wm Wooliver 49 Annie Wooliver 39 Sep 15 1861 England Imm 1867 Walter Wooliver 22 William Wooliver 18 Gertrude Wooliver 15 Ada Wooliver 8 1911 Census Welland Fort Erie, Erie Street William Wooliver 59 1852 Ontario Annie Wooliver 50 1855 Ontario ? William Wooliver 28 1883 Ontario Gertrude Wooliver 26 1885 Ontario Addie Wooliver 19 1892 Ontario married Charles Flake 9 Nov 1914 Death: William David Woolever Date:18 Jan 1930 Death Location: Welland Birth Year:abt 1853 Bridgeburg Cemetery Death Announcement Wooliver, Annie Ada Page 10 Date Friday, July 21, 1933 Newspaper Evening Review Sarah HardingHARDING, Sarah Edith 14 F SS Prussian 1870 -Jul 14 - Jul 25 (Clara Harding and brother George all came together on the same ship) What the Children Say About Canada - pg 51 (Child S E Harding, aged 14, was picked up from London streets. She had been living with two others (one a baby of three months) all alone, in a room in Whitechapel.) September 8th, 1870. Sarah Edith Harding at Rev John Murray, Grimsby, Canada West. Dear Miss Rye: I write hoping to find you better, as we heard in the paper that you were very sick, and how is the dear baby, and is she gone? Please would you send me my brother's address, so I may write to him? I am getting stronger, and I like my place very well. How are all the girls? Would you write and tell me if the baby as gone, if she is, will you tell me what place? Mrs Murray is very kind to me. I often wish I was back in England, again, I wish I could go back. I have no more to say, so will you write and tell me all I ask you? S E Harding. What the Children Say About Canada - pg 27 Sarah Edith Harding to Miss Rye. Please to axcept this twenty five cents, part of my first wages. I have a good home, and have plenty of every thing. I should like to help a little to bring some other orphan who want a home at Canada. I am quite well and strong now. I thank you for your kind wishes. I am going down to Jordan to see the baby today*. I send my respects and love to you. Sarah Harding. (* the baby is her sister Clara) 1871 Census - HARDING, E SARAH. 15, England, with John MURRAY, District 21, Subdist F, Div 1, Pg 40, Grimsby Twp. Lincoln County, LAC 9923. 1875 Inspection Report - Grimsby Centre, Cyrus Nelles & Canon Reade, Inspectors - 20, born London, London Workhouse 1870, PC, goes to Church & Sunday School, with Rev J S Murray, not adopted, wages by the year, $4 per month, here 4 years, housework. In an excellent home and much thought of. Empire & Emigration by Marion Diamond - pg 228 - Sarah Edith Harding, picked up in the streets of London, with Rev John Murray, Grimsby. Birth: Edith Harding Date of Birth:2 Jul 1879 Gender:FemaleBirth County:Lincoln Mother's Name:Sarah Edith Harding Iligitimate - Roll Number:MS929_39 1881 Census Toronto City, St Thomas Ward George Murray 50 Barrister Scotland Jessie Murray 48 Sarah Harding 25 Servant England Presbyterian Harriett Stevenson 21 Martha TunnicliffTUNNICLIFF, Martha 20 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 New Brunswick Oct 11 1870 Bristol City Union paid £10.58 TNA ref MH12/3872 1871 Census New Brunswick Saint John Queen Ward Martha Tunnecliff 19y abt 1852 England Church Of England Charles Patton 70 born Ireland Gentleman Mary Jane Patton 52 Mary Jane Patton 25 Wm Henry Patton 23 Chas Kirkpatrick 44 James Moore 23 Boyle 21 Martha Tunnecliff 19 1875 Letters - What the Children Say About the People - pg 33/4 To Mrs Needes, (date not given, most likely soon after arrival 1870) Matron, St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol. Dear Madam: I know you are very anxious to hear if we arrived, yet we were on the water twelve days. We had a very rough voyage, we expected every moment was our last. I was seasick eight days. I never want to go to sea no more. The doctor was afraid it would turn to the fever, but, thanks be to God, I got safe over it. I took nothing but brandy and beef-tea for eight days. When we landed we rode in the train one night and a day. We got out at Portland, then we were on the water another day and night, I was seasick again. I preferred the last boat to the first, we were treated very kindly on both. Miss Rye was very kind to us. Forty of us went beyond Canada, the rest went on to Niagara. We were taken to an Orphan Asylum. I was there one night, when a lady came and took me away in her carriage as parlour-maid, where there are three servants, but she treats me as her own. I am getting one pound a month, and I have not half the work that I had at home. I am living in a very healthy place, called Saint John's, New Brunswick. We spend six months in the town, six months in the country, which will be very good for my health. I have been in my place a fort-night. I was very ill when I came, I had bronchitis. I do not know what I should have done had I not met with a kind mistress. She had a doctor for me, and paid all expenses, but I am getting quite well now. Tell Mrs Williams I thought of her words when I was on the water. Remember me to every one in the house. Susan and me are living very near each other, she has a good situation, and is doing well. She has wrote to you. Please to excuse me in not stamping the letter, I will stamp it next time. I hope you and your family are all pretty well. I had a mind to jump in the boat after you when you was going away. Good-bye, I will say more next time. I remain, yours respectfully, Martha Tunnicliff. reference is to Susan Garland from Bristol on the same ship who also wrote a letter to Mrs Needes. Mary Jane RidgwayRIDGWAY, Mary Jane10 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9
Oct 26 1870, Orphan, 6, Reading Union paid £6.21 (Mentioned in letter from her sister Sarah Ridgway who came same ship) Empire & Emigration by Marion Diamond - pg 229, Railway conductor in a letter to Rye mentions "saw your orphan girl Mary Ridgway". (see below) What the People Say About The Children - pg 14 Great Western Railway, Fergus, Dec. 16th, 1870 Miss Rye: Dear Madam: I am happy to inform you that I saw your little orphan girl, Mary Ridgway, put all safe by a friend of mine that was going to near the same place yesterday. Poor little girl! She missed the train that was goingto Alma. I happened to be running the train, and done my utmost to see her safe to her destination. I am permanently here as conductor, and anything you may desire up this way I will be only too happy to do it for you. Yours truly, John Quirk. 1875 Letters - What the People Say About The Children - pg 18 Minto, December 19th, 1870 Miss Rye Dear Madam: Mary arrived here safe and sound on Friday the 16th, about noon. She was quite well, and her things all right. Her feet were chilled a little, but they are well now. She said you said we must rub them with onions, and as Mary said that some of the children have chilled feet down with you, I can tell you how to cure them. Just rub them with coal oil twice a day by the fire. Somebody had given her a pair of stockings and a scarf on the road. She is at home with us, and we like her very well, and are quite satisfied. She is lonesome sometimes about her sister, and wishes her to write sometimes to her. She sends her love to her sister, and we also invite her to come up and see her and us when she can make it convenient to do so. Come to Costwold and ask for us. We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I remain, yours truly Eli Goodwin. USES GUARDIAN'S NAME 1871 Census - Mary GOODWIN, 10, England, Prim Meth, Eli GOODWIN, England , Dist 35, Sub C1, pg 28, Minto Township, Wellington County, LAC 9949. 3 PLACEMENTS 1875 Inspection Report - Mount Forest, Sydney Smith, Inspector Centre, 14, Reading, 1870, NC, goes to Church, not Sunday School, with Robert Smith, Ayton PO, not adopted, usual terms, here 3 mo, housework, last employee Mr Frazer, Arthur PO, left because sold out, lived 2 other places, good situation and well liked, a good girl. 1878 Rye Report - #263, returned to England Mary O'KeefeSaturday, 15 August 2009 08:50
O'KEEFE, Mary 11 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 Oct 24 1870, Orphan, St. George's Union paid £11 1870 Report - St George, Hanover Square - #7. Mary O'Keefe - to Mr. John Pew, Lundy's Lane, Drummondville, Ontario, has one grown-up son, farmer, lived there 14 years. Child adopted. 1870 Report - St George, Hanover Square - Letter # 2: Drummondville, January 22, 1871 Dear Mr. Badley I now take the opportunity of writing a few lines to you to let you know that I am quite well at present, and I want to let you know that I am adopted to Mr. & Mrs. John Pew. They have only two sons, one 24 years old, the other 21, both at home, they have no daughters but myself and they are very kind to me and I like the place very much indeed and I have lots of fun. I am to commence school tomorrow morning and also learning piano music. We have horses and I have lots of sleigh rides. We have cows, sheep, hogs, hens and turkeys. Now don't you think I have a nice place. I enjoy my journey very much indeed. But I was a little sick and I have written to my brother Joseph and I have not received an answer yet and I don't think my brother has got any money or he would have written to me before this time, and I not got any money myself to send him or I would send him some. I want you to get Mrs. Harris' address and send it to me. Please excuse all mistakes in this letter. I have now fulfilled my promise wich I made when I left you. Please don't forget your promise. No more at present. My best wishes ever attend you. The roses red, the violets blue, honey sweet and so are you, and so are they that sent you this, and when we meet we will have a kiss. So good night. P.S.- please direct your letter to Drummondville, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Signed - Mary O'Keefe 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - St George's, Hanover Drummondville, February 13th, 1871 Dear Miss Rye Perhaps this short letter from me will surprise you. But I feel anxious to let you know that I am quite well at present, and enjoying myself very much, and I am very much pleased with my home, and they are all very kind to me, and I am going to school, and I am taking lessons on the piano, now don't you think that is nice? I promised Mr Badly? I would write to him, and I have keep my promis (sic). I wrote to him about three weeks ago, and I promised I would write to you, and this is keeping my promis (sic) good, and I hope you are well, and have you got homes for all the girls yet? and I want to let you know that I was out yesterday and got my likeness taken, my name now is Carrie Pew instead of Mary O'Keefe. I have lots of fun here. I feed the chickens and turkeys, we have rosted turkeys and plenty of apples, and plenty of every thing. We have some splendid horses, and I have riden some of them, as well as having sleigh rides and buggy rides. We live in a larg (sic) house, and a nice pine and cedar grove in front, and we have a nice pond to slide on, you must call and see me when you come up this way. It is near ten o'clock, and I must bid you good night, and believe me to be ever Your Friend, Carrie Pew. P.S. - Please answer this letter. (Clearly Mary (Carrie Pew) is living with John Pew before the 1871 census was taken but I did not locate her.) 1875 Inspection Report - Drummond Centre, Mrs Pew, Inspector, 15 St Georges Han.Sqr 1870, MC, goes to Church & Sunday School, with John Pew, Lundys Lane, Drummondville, not adopted, wages by month $3, here 5 years, housework. This is an excellent girl, well liked in a good home. Empire & Emigration by Marion Diamond - pg 228 - in reference to above letter and change of name by Mary O'Keefe to Carrie Pew (in letter dated 13 Feb 1871). 1881 Census - Carrie PEW, 21, England land with John PEW, Stamford, Welland County, J2, pg 21, LAC 13253 Marriage Mary O'Keefe, Birth Place:London England, Age:26, Estimated Birth Year:abt 1860m Father Name:Patrick O'Keefe, Mother Name'Keefe O'Keefe Spouse Abner Crysler Morse (painter) Spouse's Age:24 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1862 Spouse Birth Place:Niagara Falls Father Name:Edward Morse Mother Name:Elizabeth Morse Marriage Date:23 Sep 1886 Marriage Place:Welland WITNESS: Emma Pew (sister) BIRTHS OF CHILDREN Charles Harrold Morse 14 Nov 1887 Welland Abner Chrysler Morse Mary Okeefe Frederick Beverly Morse 8 Oct 1890 Welland Mary Okeefe Abner Morse 1891 Census Welland Niagara Falls Village Abner Morse 30 Mary Morse 30 Harold Chas Morse 3 Fred Morse 7/12 Mary died 1898 Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S. Name:Abner C Morse Arrival Date:24 Jan 1915 Age:53 Birth Date:abt 1862 Birth Country:Canada widower - paper hanger sister Mrs Alice Green Stamford Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1934 Name: Carrie Morse Death Date:18 Dec 1898 Death Location:Welland Estimated Birth Year:abt 1842 Birth Location:England Registered as Carrie but on stone says Mary O'Keefe Morse Drummond Hill Cemetery MARY OKEEFE MORSE Date of Burial: DEC 18 1898 AGED 36 ABNER MORSE Date of Burial: 2/3/1940 CHARLES EDWARD MORSE Date of Burial: 3/26/1946 Born June 6 1888 (same stone) FREDERICK MORSE 1890 -1916 Alice M Green (sister) 1874 - 1946 Maria FranceFRANCE, Maria A 10 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 New Brunswick 1878 Rye Report (Francis) #231-26, New Brunswick, still with Rev J Williams in England land 1878 List of Miss Rye’s children in New Brunswick who have not been visited by the Dominion Government Immigration Agents -Campbelle, New Brunswick with Rev J Williams. 1878 NB/NS Report - went with Rev Mr Williams to England land two years ago. April 19 1878 NS/NB Report that were omitted last year. Mentioned in Letter from Elizabeth Dunkley who both came on the same ship to NB. " I am going to Church and Sunday school every Sunday, and Maria lives very near, so I can see her often, and I shall see the others on Sunday." No. 5. MARIA FRANCIS was placed by Rev’d Mr Williams with a lady in St Andrews, who found it impossible to manage her. She was taken back by Mr Williams who shortly after returned to England land taking her with him. 1878 Annual Report - Letters - The next letter is from a Liverpool workhouse girl, who went away in 1870, and who is with the same family now in England land Chilmark, Salisbury, 24 June 1878. Dear Miss Rye: I was very pleased to hear from my mistress that you were again in England land , so I thought perhaps you might like to have a line from one of the girls which you took out to Canada in 1870. I never can thank you enough for the good home which you got me out in Canada. My master and mistress brought me to England land in 1875. I like England land very much, but I prefer Canada, and I hope I shall go back some day. I have seen all my relations since I have been home, but not for the last two years, but I hope to go down to Liverpool and see them in the autumn. My mistress is going to write to you, so I think I will close. I remain, yours respectfully, MARIA A FRANCE Susan CottrellCOTTRELL, Susan 16 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 New Brunswick Oct 11 1870 Bristol City Union paid £10.58 TNA ref MH12/3872 1875 Letters - What the Children Say about Canada - pg 29 In care of Mr Magee, Brothers, Prince William Street, St. John’s, New Brunswick. December 22nd, 1870. Dear Madam: I hope youe are enjoying good health, as I am myself. I have written home to my friends and to Mrs Needes?, to tell them that we arrived safe at our journey’s end, and that we are very glad we came out, as we think we shall be a great deal better out here than in Bristol. I have got a excelent home and a kind mistress and master, and am very happy and contented. I went down to Mrs Mason, at the Orphan House, to ask her if she could tell your direction. Mrs Mason told me to call again in about a fortnight’s time, and she would get it of a gentleman for me. MARTHA has been very sick lately, but I think she is getting on better now she has got a very nice home. I think she is very comfortable. Dear madam, will you kindly write and give my sister’s directions, as my sisters and brother are very anxious to now she is getting on? With my love to you, Susan Cottrell. (Reference to Martha could be Martha Fisher also from Bristol on same ship.) Louisa BrellattBRELLATT, Louisa 11 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 Oct 11 1870 Bristol City Union paid £10.58 TNA ref MH12/3872 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - pg 28 St Paul, (USA) March. Dear Miss Rye: I would like to hear how you are getting on. I like St. Paul very much, we have such pleasant weather. I go to Sabbath School. I like it very much. I am very happy to say I have my lessons every Sabbath. There are over two hundred Scholars, they sing beautifully. I learn two verses of the Bible every morning to repeat before I have my breakfast. I like my new home very much. Mr and Mrs Moss are very kind to me. I send you my kind love, please give my kind love to Miss Mary Allaway and Jane and Ellen and to all the girls especially Mary Ketherso and Elizabeth Cobemach, please excuse my bad writing, much love from your affectionate friend, Louisa Brellatt 1878 Rye Report #201, Toronto, stet Mary Jane AllisonALLISON, Mary Jane 11 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 Oct 24 1870, Orphan, St. George’s Union paid £11 1870 Report - St George, Hanover Square -#3. Mary Jane Allison - to Mr. James Reilly, Fonthill, Ontario; has two sons; farmer; lived there 26 years. Child bound as servant but to sit at same table. ALLISON, Mary Jane 11 F SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 1870 Report - St George, Hanover Square -#3. Mary Jane Allison - to Mr. James Reilly, Fonthill, Ontario; has two sons; farmer; lived there 26 years. Child bound as servant but to sit at same table. 1871 Census - ALLISON, MARY, 12, ENGLAND; with James REILLY, Boot Shoe Dealer. District 18; Subdist F; Div 1; Pg 27, Pelham Twp. Welland County, adopted (crossed out). Film #9918. 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - St George’s, Hanover Square - pg 42-43 Fonthill, Jan. 9th, 1871. Dear Miss Rye: I wright these few lines to you, hopeing to find you quite well. I like to be hear very well, and they are all kind to me that is here, and is Miss Alaway quite well, and please give my love to all the girls, are they all quite well? And I go to Sunday schooll every Sunday, and I have every thing I want, and there is a girl lives close to here, her name is Elizabeth Hodge, and I hope I will have some more live closer to me; and how did you spend your christmas with the girls? I had a very happy one, and I hope you did also, and are you goying back to England once more, and wish you could bring my brothers here if you could, for I would like them to be here were I am also. I thank you very much for bringing me over here, and I thank you for your kindness to me while I was with you, so no more at present. Yours affectionately, Mary J Allison 1875 Inspection Report - Fonthill Centre - Mr Geo Hansler, Inspector, St Geo Hanover Square Workhouse, 1870, MC, goes Church & Sunday School, with James Reilly, Fonthill, here 5 years. This man has moved to St Catharines, was told this was a fine girl with him. Mary HodsonHODSON, Mary 10 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 (passenger list says Martha Hodson) First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #47. Mary Hodson; 11; father deserted; mother dead; workhouse 4 1/2 years; aunt in town, not known; Mr. W.S., Raymond, Mississippi, U.S.; bound for service; merchant; one child at home. lived in present place 33 years. (Mentioned in letter from Martha Sinclair who came on the same ship - "and I send my kind love to Priscilla Elliot and Mary Hodson, and to Louisa Burden.") 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 17 letter Raymond, Miss., March 14th, 1871. Miss Maria S Rye, Niagara, Canada. Your favour of 22nd February received. We were glad to hear you were well and doing well. We had become uneasy about you, fearing something had befallen you, or you had met with opposition in your enterprise; but we are glad nothing of the kind has happened. Our people, more particularly those about Vicksburg, have been very much disappointed in not getting the girls they had expected. If we had received your letters we could have given you any help in money or assistance that you might have wanted, but we never heard once from you after you left for England. By the next fall we can make any arrangement you may wish, and during the summer you can let Dr Sansom, of Vicksburg, and myself know what to do or expect. The girls you brought us are doing first-rate, and have given entire satisfaction, so much so that almost every family wants one. The children are well; our little Mary is well, and is an excellent girl. She told me to send her love to you. Mr Kinnard has left here and gone back to Kentucky, where he came from. His little girl disliked very much to go. The spring has opened earlier this season than usual; the weather is quite warm now, and vegetation far advanced, with gardens looking well, and a great deal of corn up. Cotton is not planted generally until 1st to 10th April, and continues on through April. Mrs Shearer sends her love to you. I would be glad to hear from you often, or any time you can find your own to write to me. Yours respectfully, & c., O V Shearer. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. (see Maria Grant - letter written by George Latimer, Md from Raymond, Miss for more detail re the girls.) 1878 Rye Report - Mary Hodson - #47-29, United States 1870 United States Federal Census, Raymond, Mississippi Oliver V Shearer 59 Elvira Shearer 53 Mary Hodson 11 England Mary Johnston 18 Ellen HartleyHARTLEY, Ellen 8 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #10. Eleanor Hartley; 9; orphan, workhouse 18 months; brothers and sisters, but all unknown except one in Liverpool; Dr. R.B., Raymond, Mississippi, U.S.; Bound as servant; has lived in present neighborhood 12 years; has 3 sons. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. (see Maria Grant - letter written by George Latimer, MD from Raymond, Miss for more detail re the girls.) 1878 Rye Report - #12-29, United States 1870 United States Federal Census Name:Elinor Hartley Estimated Birth Year:abt 1860 Age in 1870:10 Birthplace:England Home in 1870:Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi Race:White Gender:Female Post Office:Raymond H T T Dupree 47 Sarah M Dupree 30 Emma R Dupree 10 John H Dupree 7 Samuel F Dupree 2 Sarah Williams 10 England (Maria Rye Home Child) Claracy Dupree 12 Wash Johnston 60 Ann E Johnston 70 ** Elinor Hartley 10 England Pricilla ElliottELLIOTT, Priscilla 10 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #27. Priscilla Elliott; 12; father dead; mother died in the workhouse; 4 years in workhouse; sister sent to situation from the school; another sister and brother in Liverpool, Mr. G.H., Raymond, Mississippi; bound for service; Editor of the Hind's Co. Gazette. Has 7 children. Has lived there 26 years. 1870 Census Home in 1870:Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi Name:Pricilla Elliott Estimated Birth Year:abt 1859 Age in 1870:11 Birthplace:England George W Harper 45 Anna L Harper 35 Samuel Harper 14 Henry Harper 12 Thomas M Harper 8 Virginia Harper 7 Annie Harper 5 Maygy Harper 3 Susan Harper 6/12 Pricilla Elliott 11 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi, My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. I will write and send my girl's (Sarah Williams) photograph as early as convenient. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. see Maria Grant - letter written by George Latimer, MD from Raymond, Mississippi for more detail re the girls. Mentioned in a letter from Martha Sinclair who came together on the same ship. - "and would please tell Priscilla Elliot that I will soon send her a letter soon, and I send my kind love to Priscilla Elliot and Mary Hodson, and to Louisa Burden." Sarah WilliamsWILLIAMS, Sarah 10 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 Liverpool Record Office - Classification Record - Kirkdale Ragged Schoot (b 1862), Exit Date: Oct 1869 First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #26. Sarah Ann Williams; 10; father dead; mother in the workhouse; 9 months; sister and grandmother in Liverpool, Mr. H.T.D., Raymond, Mississippi; bound over as servant; Has 3 children. Lived 20 years in present neighborhood. 1875 Letters from the Province of Ontario Raymond, Mississippi: My Friend: As you request, I will write you a few lines to state that the girls you left here, nine in number, in our charge, as far as I know (and I have a fair chance to know, my husband being a medical man) are doing well, and have good homes. Tis true they work, but not so hard as even to jade their appearance in the least or cause them to be the least discontented, and they seem to be cheerful and happy. l will write and send my girl's (Sarah Williams) photograph as early as convenient. The Doctor has asked me to write in his stead, as he is engaged at present. Very respectfully, Mrs S M Dupree. (see Maria Grant - letter written by George Latimer, MD from Raymond, Miss for more detail re the girls.) 1878 Rye Report - #38, stet, US (3 girls came 1869 living with the Dupree's) 1870 United States Federal Census Name:Sarah Williams Estimated Birth Year:abt 1860 Age in 1870:10 Birthplace:England Home in 1870:Raymond, Hinds, Mississippi Race:White Gender:Female Post Office:Raymond Household Members:NameAge H T T Dupree 47 Sarah M Dupree 30 Emma R Dupree 10 John H Dupree 7 Samuel F Dupree 2 Sarah Williams 10 England Claracy Dupree 12 (actually Catherine Travis adopted name came 1869) Wash Johnston 60 Ann E Johnston 70 Elinor Hartley 10 England (Ellen Hartley came 1869) Isabella ThomasIsabella THOMAS, 12 F sb SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 PLACEMENTS FOR ISABELLA First Report for 1869 - #67. Isabella Thomas; 12; orphan; Orphanage in London; workhouse four years; No relations; with aunt in Oshawa, Canada; adopted. 1871 Census - THOMAS, ISABALLIN; 15, England, Disciples, with John & Susanna MALLATTE, cabinet maker. LAC 9975, District 48, Subdist E, Div 1, Pg 43. Oshawa Twn., Ontario County 1875 Letters - What the Children Say about Canada William Street, Oshawa, Ontario Dear Madam: We arrived at aunt's at three o'clock the day you left us. I like the place very much, and I should not like to go back to England again. But I should like to see all the kind friends there. I am going to write to Mr. Northcott as soon as I can. I have written to the matron of the home where I left. My brother has gone into the cabinet manufactory to learn a trade; he has agreed to work a month to see what he would like to do. He has chosen a trade so that he might set up a business. I have no more to say at present. I remain gratefully, ISABELLA THOMAS 1875 Letters - What the People Say December 1st, 1869, William Street, Oshawa, Ontario Dear Madam: I feel it my duty to write to you to return thanks for the kind care and protection. In regard to the orphans Thomas, they came safe to Oshawa, and they speak in high terms of your kindness to them. You have made my heart glad. I am sure they never could have come if you had not taken them with you. May your life be preserved for many years to carry on your great and good work, and may the new year meet you with every blessing that this world can afford, and may you have a long and happy life, and at the end may you have everlasting life and be rewarded for all your kind and good works, is the wish of your grateful servant. Signed, SUSANNA MALLETT Matilda TaylorTAYLOR, Matilda 6 F sb SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 PLACEMENTS FOR MATILDA First Party Report - 1869 - #2. Matilda Taylor; 6; Orphan; Liverpool Workhouse Schools; workhouse 12 months; Brother in Liverpool, Sister in Cumberland, Not seen either; Mrs -, Widow, Kirkwall, Ontario; Adopted; Has lived all her life in Kirkwall. Has no children. (Sister of #13, Elizabeth & #19, Jane) 1871 Census - TAYLOR, MATILDA, 7, England with Hubor McCAOG (McCraig?) Presby, Beverly Twp., Wentworth County, District 23, Subdist A, Div 4, Pg 35. 1875 Inspection Report - Guelph Centre, Kirkdale Workhouse 1869 with Mrs McCraig, Beverly, Galt, could not reach this place, 8 miles from Galt, heard has a good home. Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924 Matilda Taylor Birth Place:England Age:24 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1863 Father Name:George Taylor Mother Name:Jane Taylor Spouse Name:George Elliott Spouse's Age:25 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1862 Spouse Birth Place:Puslinch Spouse Father Name:George Elliott Spouse Mother Name:Catharine Elliott Marriage Date:7 Sep 1887 Marriage Place:Waterloo Marriage County:Waterloo Family History Library Microfilm:MS932_58 Chldren: Anna Helen Elliott 12 Nov 1900 Wentworth Georgina Catherine Elliott 28 Aug 1892 Wentworth Marion Kelvie Elliott 25 Apr 1896 Wentworth William James Elliott 11 Jan 1903 Wentworth 1901 Ontario District:Wentworth & Brant (North/Nord) Beverly Page:6 George Elliott 38 farmer Matilda T. Elliott 39 Martin H. Elliott 11 Georgine C. Elliott 8 Marion K. Elliott 4 Anna H. Elliott 1 Esther May 23 England Domestic George W. Wilkison 53 England Machinest Maria J Starr1880 Annual Peckham Report - Letters #3 Suncoe, (must be USA - cannot find such a place listed) 21st February, 1880: Dear Miss Rye: "I take the pleasure in writing to you, hoping you are well, and knowing you will be glad to hear that I am doing well. I have a good home, I am living with Mrs. Col. F., they are all very kind to me. Perhaps you do not remember me, as it is a long time since you have seen me. I was 11 years old when you brought me from England, and now I am near 21, so there is a great change, I am the young girl you sent to Mrs. H., but she is living here now, and telling me she would like to get another little girl from you about 11 or 12, and I know she will have a good home, if she will be a good girl, and mind her. I say I know because I lived with her about three years, and never saw any change from the first to the last. I left because I was too big a girl for the work, but will look to her as a mother. I still have the privilege of going to Sunday school and church every Sunday, for they are christian people. Yes, there is a great change in body and soul now; how sweet it is to know we have a Saviour ever watching over us to keep us from harm, who is guarding us above this desert below, till He sees fit to take us home to Himself. I must conclude in sending my love to you. Yours truly, Maria S. Harriet Smith
Harriet Smith 4 F sb SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 Placements for Harriet First Report for 1869 - #61. Harriet Smith; 4; orphan; Field Lane Refuge; workhouse one month; two young brothers; Mr. and Mrs. F., (should this be Mr T? Thompson) Woodstock, Ontario; adopted; no children; living on property and 3 years in present place. (Could be sister to Charlotte Smith also coming same ship who also has 2 young brothers as both are from Field Lane Refuge) 1875 Inspection Report - St Woodstock Centre, Frank Ball, (Francis R Ball, Barrister), Inspector, 6, Field Lane Refuge, London 1869, with Mr Thomson, Woodstock.1878 Rye Report - #58, travelling with family, Co Oxford 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 11 Woodstock, 25th April, 1870. My Dear Miss Rye: I have just heard of your return to Niagara, and am much disappointed that your arrangements prevented the promised visit to us. Mr Bull informed us that he expected a telegraph message to say when you would be in Woodstock, and we looked for you every day. Your "Curly" has been very busy in her small way making preparations for "Miss Rye." I know you will be glad to hear that the darling little thing is quite well, and every day becoming dearer to both Mr Thomson and myself. I sincerely hope you will be able to come and see us on your return from England, and trust that sea breezes will have a beneficial effect upon your health. Mr Thomson unites with me in wishing you a prosperous voyage and safe return to Canada, where your noble efforts to provide comfortable homes for the destitute and friendless have been so eminently successful. I doubt not but that you will be equally fortunate with your second little "army". Yours is truly a grand, good work, and a blessing must rest upon your labours. Lilly has just come in from the garden looking rosy and fresh; she sends you her fond love and a "pound of kisses." I forget to mention that your letter written on the eve of your departure for the Unites States, requesting me to meet you on the Monday at the Woodstock Station, did not reach me until the Tuesday; I presume it came up on the same train as yourself. I regret very much not having seen you then, but trust that pleasure is in store for me this summer. With every kind wish for your safety and welfare, I am, dear Miss Rye, Yours very truly Jane Thomson. William ParrottPARROTT, William 16 M SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 PLACEMENTS FOR WILLIAM First Party Report - 1869 - #69. William Parrott; 15; a mother living; Feltham 3 years; a mother; with J.W., Esq., River View, London, Canada West; in service; been in present place 10 years. 1871 Census - PALLOTT, WILLIAM; 18, England, CE, servant, with J B TAYLOR, Westminster Twp. Middlesex County,. District 9; Subdist A; Div 2; Pg 82, LAC #9904. 1878 Rye Report - #66, Co Middlesex, London, stet 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 14 River View, 23 Dec 1870 My Dear Miss Rye: Your little protege duly arrived. Mr Whitehead met him at the station and brought him out. He is an uncommonly good, industrious little fellow, so intelligent and willing, and seems determined to get on in Canada. He is just the kind to do well out here, and I am sure will be well off one of these days. The industrial school deserve every support and encouragement if they turn out such promising boys. He tells me he was 16 last July. I think his previous life before he went to Feltham must have dwarfed his stature. Everything, of course, is quite new to him, and at first appeared rather formidable to him, but he will get on in time and seems very happy and contented. He speaks with great fondness of you. With best regards from all, and wishing you a very happy Christmas in your Western Home, I remain, yours sincerely, Constance Whitehead. Sarah Ann Moseley9 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 PLACEMENTS FOR SARAH ANN First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #33. Sarah Ann Moseley; 12; orphan; workhouse 4 1/2 years; aunt in Liverpool; Mr. McK., Dornock, near Woodstock; bound for service; farmer; lived in present place 2 years. 1871 Census - MOSLEY SARAH ANN, 12, England, CE, District 13; Subdist D; Div 1; Pg 57. Oxford East Twp., Oxford County John McKENZIE, C Presb. LAC #9911.1875 Inspection Report - Woodstock Centre, Frank Ball, Inspector (Francis R Ball, Barrister), Sarah Ann Moseley, 10, Kirkdale Workhouse, Mrs Douglas, 1st Con East Oxford, near Woodstock. 1878 Rye Report - #34 (Mary Ann Mousely) lost sight of, Co Oxford, Woodstock 1878 Rye Report - #34 (Mary Ann Mousely) lost sight of, Co Oxford, Woodstock 1875 Letters - What The Children Say About Canada - Kirkdale - pg 48/9 Dear Miss Rye, I am very well and I hope you are so to and I thank God for it. I arrived at Mrs. McKendsey's safe, and I was treated very kindly while I was in the train, and Mr. and Mrs. McKendsey is very well and they are very kind and good to me; and I am very happy, and I hope you are happy, and I hope the children are very well, and I hope Lucy James is getting on very well, and the cook. And please, Miss Rye, if you have heard from my uncle, will you please to let me know, for I only wish I could hear from him. I would be very glad. And please let all my friends know, you no who I mean - all the children, that I am very well and in good health. I hope babby is getting on and I hope Charlotte Smith is a better girl, and I am very thankful to you I hope you spent a good Christmas and had a happy New Year's day. I hope you spent both well, and I hope the children did to. I know you have got shut of some more since I left And please, Miss Rye, will you please tell me if Sharlotte is a better girl. And I hope babby is getting on, and I hope Charlotte Smith is a better girl, and I am very thankfull to you, Miss Rye, for bringing me to Niagara, for if it had not been for you I would not have been where I am now, and I am in a good home, and I am very well fed and kindly treated, and Mr. and Mrs. McKendsey and myself are very well and happy. So no more from your scholar. Signed: SARAH ANN MOSELEY.(Ref to babby (sic) is most likely Herbert Radley who died Feb 1870 at 2 years of age at Our Western Home and is buried at St Marks Cemetery in Niagara-on-the-Lake. POSSIBLE MARRIAGE FOR SARAH ANN Name:Sarah A Mosely Birth Place:England Age:22 Estimated Birth Year:abt 1858 Father Name:George Moseley Mother Name:Ann Moseley Spouse Name:Martin Murphy Spouse's Age:23 Spouse Estimated Birth Year:abt 1857 Spouse Birth Place:Toledo Ohio Spouse Father Name:John Murphy Spouse Mother Name:Minnie Murphy Marriage Date:6 Oct 1880 Marriage Placexford 1901 Census of Canada Name:Sarah Murphy Gender:Female Marital Status:Widowed Age:49 Birth Date? Jun 1851 Birthplace:England Relation to Head of House:Head Racial or Tribal Origin:English Nationality:Canadian Religion:Church Of England Provincentario District:Hamilton (City/Cité) District Number:69 Sub-District:Hamilton (City/Cité) Ward/Quartier No 3 Sub-District Number:C-1 Family Number:69 Page:7 Sarah Murphy 49 ENGLAND WIDOW Thos W Murphy 23 Ontario Iva M Murphy 21 " Joseph G Murphy 19 " Mary J Makin10 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8
First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #43. Mary Jane Makin; 12; orphan; workhouse 9 months; sister unknown; Mr. J.C., Niagara, Ontario; bound over for service; merchant. has two children; lived 2 years in present place. 1875 Inspection Report - Milton Centre, Dr Robertson, Mayor, Inspector - Mary Jane Masken, 17, Kirkdale Workhouse, 1869, CE, Church & Sunday School, with Dr Sutherlands, Oakville, not adopted, $4 per month, here 2 years, housework, last employer Mrs Long, Oakville, left because work was too hard. Lived in one place before. This girl is well liked and in a good home. 1881 Census - Mary J MAKIN, 20, England, with Stephen WAGGONER, mariner, Oakville, Halton County, D, pg 33, LAC 13257. 1875 Letters - What the Children Say About Canada - pg 30 St Cathrine’s, Mary Martin? Dear Friend: i writ these few lines to you, hoping to find you in good health as it leaves me at present, and i am With my frend lizzie at mrs. Bishopaice, and she likes her plase very well and hops she will stop here, me and my mistress are here ever since I came but we expect to go to our own house next week, and i think i shall like my place very Well, she is a very kind mistress, and i ham very sorry i have not Wrote to you before. Give my love to the Girls that are ther not forgetin miss holliway and miss rye, you told me to let you know how i Got on with the cow, i was rather afraide of her first, but now i can milk very Well. Give my love to Zine and the nurse i should like to know how Kate and Christy are geting on and now I must conclude With my best love from your frind, Mary Martin. Pleas to send a answer back as soon as possible. Christina LucasLUCAS, Christina 9 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 PLACEMENTS FOR CHRISTINA First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #14. Christina Lucas; 11; orphan, workhouse 3 years; has a sister, not known; Mr. A. Van E., Seaforth, Ontario; bound over as servant; has woollen mills, and lived 39 years in present neighborhood. Has 5 sons. Doyle's Report - 14 May 1877 - Page 27. "C.L. Address not known." (believe this is Christina Lucas. Response from Rye: Girl now 18 years old. 1878 Rye Report - #16-6, Co Huron C.R., lost sight of 1875 Letters - What the People Say About The Children - pg 19 Seaforth, 30th January, 1870. Dear Miss Rye: I have delayed answering your letter, thinking I could find a place for the boy you have, but I cannot find a place that I could recommend. I could take a boy as an apprentice in factory, but I do not like to take any unless they come first on trial, as some take a dislike to the business and become entirely useless. Should you not find a place for the boy I might take him, but not for his clothing. I pay boys four dollars per month and board, and raise their wages as they improve. The time depends on what they intend to learn, as some only learn one branch of the business. Christina is well, and sends her love to you. I asked her if she had any more word to send to you; she answered that she did not want to go back. She goes to Church and Sunday school regular, for which she got a handsome book as a prize for regular attendance, for which she is very proud of. Yours truly, A G VanEgmond. Mary Ann KeeleyKEELEY, Mary Ann 10 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 PLACEMENTS FOR MARY ANN First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #37. Mary Ann Keeley; 12; orphan; workhouse two years; No relations; Mr. C.K., Dornock, Ontario; bound for service; Farmer; has one child; lived 3 years in present place. 1871 Census - KEALEY, MARYANN; 12, England; District 13; Subdist G; Div 2; Pg 16. Oxford North Twp., Oxford County with Alexander ROSS, Presby, farmer. LAC 9911. 1875 Inspection Report - Woodstock Centre, Frank Ball, Inspector (Francis R Ball, Barrister) - Mary Ann Kealey, 12, Kirkdale Workhouse, 1869, with Alex. Ross, Ingersoll 1881 Census - (could be) Belleville, Hastings West, Ont, FHL 1375874, LAC 13238, Dist 121, SubDist C-2, Page 39 John H GORDON, 60, Francais, Ontario, Agent, C. Methodist Mary KEELEY, 21, England, C. Methodist 1875 Letters - What the Children Say about Canada Dornock, April 7th, 1870 Dear Miss Rye: I am very sorry I did not write to you before this, and I am very glad that you have found for me a good and kind mistress and master; and will you please tell me who the girl was that died, for I am very sorry to hear of her. And please, Miss Rye, will you tell me when you are going to England, and if you are Kirkdale again. And please, Miss Rye, will you please tell me if Sharlotte is a better girl. And please, Miss Rye, how many of the girls have you got now? And, dear Miss Rye, will you please answer this letter before you go back to England? So no more at present from your affectionate scholar. Signed: MARY ANN KEELEY (The girl who died could be Margaret Baird who was on the same ship - description according to 1878 Rye Report “lost at sea” which I presume to be how she was buried) Sharlotte could be Charlotte Henry also from Liverpool and same ship. Emily & Louisa Clayton
CLAYTON, Louisa 9 F SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 Her sister Emily, 7 also came - I submitted Emily's story Placements for Louisa Liverpool Record Office - Classification Record - Kirkdale Ragged School (b 1860), Exit Date: Oct 1869 First Party Report - 1869 - Liverpool Workhouse Schools - #35. Louisa Clayton; 10; Orphan; in workhouse18 months; (Sister to Emily, No. 5) placed with sister Emily; Adopted. (would be (Mr. J. W–, Canfield, Ontario; Adopted; has 4 sons, 3 at home. Has lived 15 years in present neighborhood) 1871 Census - CLAYTON, LOUISA; 10, England, with John WILSON, District 17, Subdist D, Div 1, Pg 31. Cayuga North Twp. Haldimand County,. 1878 Rye Report - #7-5, Co. Haldimand, stet, in Canfield 1875 Letters - What the Children Say about Canada - Kirkdale -pg 47 Canfield, February 4, 1870 Dear Miss Rye, I now take the opportunity of writing you a few lines. We received your kind letter on the 3rd, and was glad to hear from you. I am well and in good health as this letter leaves me at present, hoping that it may find you the same. As regards the book, I gave Margret Carr, a pitcher (sic) for the book, and will you please ask Margret Carr about it; will you please ask Lucy James and Elisa Villiards about it, and I hope Lucy is getting on very well, and when you write please let me know how Louisa Burden is, and I like my home very well, and they are all very kind to me and sister, and I could not be better treated than what I am, and that I would rather be hear than with my own sisters, and I think that there is no better home about Canada than what it is and my mamma treates me and my sister as if we were her own children. Signed: Emily and Louisa Clayton. Elizabeth ChessworthElizabeth Chessworth, 8 came on the 1869 Hibernian leaving Liverpool Oct 9 and arriving at Quebec Nov 8. The Hibernian is considered the 1st Party of Arrivals to Canada although a few orphans were shipped in 1868. Elizabeth and 52 other girls came from Kirkdale that 1st year. Liverpool Record Office - Classification Record - Kirkdale Ragged School (b1861), Exit Date: Oct 1869 Below are letters written by Elizabeth's guardian Mrs Potter. The next 2 letters are written by Elizabeth one of which she asks for her grandmothers address. In the next one she tells of her chores and talks of other girls in the area that also came in 1869. 1875 Letters - What the People Say About The Children - pg 12/13 Bloomfield, Sept. 3rd, 1870. (USA) Dear Miss Rye: The little girl arrived quite safely yesterday. We like her looks very much indeed, and hope she may prove as good as she looks. We feel as though we could not thank you enough for your kindness and trouble in selecting her for us; we will try and bring her up right - at least, as well as we know how. Hoping you may be prospered in your good work, I remain, yours truly, Priscilla Potter 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - pg 38-39 Bloomfield, (USA) Oct. 13th, 1870. Dear Mr Birchall: I commenced a letter to you a long time ago, but did not finish it, so it was never sent. I hope this letter will reach you before long. I want to let you know how I am getting on, and I would like you to let me know how all of the children are. I would like to see you all very much, and if you, Mr Birchall, ever come to America, you must be sure to come to Bloomfield to see me. I have a very kind misses and master, and I love them both very much. I travelled all night from Canada to get here. Will you please to tell Miss Boardman that I forgot to bid her good-bye, because one of the girls told me she was off on her holiday, so I went off and did not see her; then when we were going on the ship she told me she had not gone, but was at the school, and I was so sorry not to see her before I left. I wish you would ask her to write to me, and I will answer it right away. Will you please send me my grandmother’s directions, so I can write to her sometimes; give her my best love, and I hope she is well. Give my kind love to Mary Ann Law, and will you please send her next time with the other children to Canada? And I want to tell you that I gained six pounds in three weeks, and I weigh fifty-eight pounds and a-half. Now I must tell you something of Bloomfield. My master lives in a nice large house, and he has four children living; two are married, two are home; a son and daughter married, and a son and daughter home; his son is keeping house a little ways from here. My master has carriages and four horses, pigs, and chickens, and carts. We have got a large mill, where they grind flour, a lot of pigeons, and I have got two little kittens, so cunning and so pretty, one little black one and one little yellow one. I had such a nice ride the other day; I was gone most of the afternoon, and had such a nice time. I go to meeting every Sunday afternoon, not very far from here. There are lots of apple-trees, and pear-trees, and walnut trees. I gather walnuts every day, then in the winter we will eat them. I study my lessons every day, and knit. I am studying geography. I am knitting a pair of stockings for myself for winter. My misses has made me a new dress, a nice new one, and a nice new hat she gave me; she is going to make me a new aapron when she has time. They are building such a large paper-mill below us; they are making it of brick. Elizabeth Chestworth. In care of J W Potter, Bloomfield, New Jersey. 1875 Letters -What the Children Say About Canada - Kirkdale - pg 49/50 Bloomfield, Feb. 14th, 1871. My Dear Miss Rye: I have been thinking about writing to you for some time, and hope to-day I will make it out. I want to let you know how I am. I am very well, and am getting on very nicely for the first time. I hope I will do better day by day. I can milk and wash some of the clothes every Monday. I wash the dishes, and make some beds every morning, and every Saturday I clean the kitchen, laundry, pantry, cellar steps, and F (front) veranda. Miss Annie Potter and I polish the range. Every Sunday I go to the chapel, we have service there and Sunday school. I am going to take two new scholars next Sunday. Its name is the Memorial Chapel. And, Miss Rye, I am sorry to hear Lizzie Taylor was not liked by her mistress for having such a bad temper, so has lost her place, tell me whether she is with you now or not. Jane Taylor and I have been writing to each other. I have not heard from her since Lizzie left her place. Miss Rye, will you please tell me if you have brought out Mary Ann Law, and where she is now; also where Lizzie Pope is living? Will you please send me Mr Birchall’s directions? I have written to him, and have not received an answer. When you go to England for some more children, will you please give this note to Mr Birchall? We have had a great deal of snow so far this winter. Sunday it snowed all day, and cleared off at night; the next morning the snow plows were out; this morning it commenced again, and kept on all day. I think it is clearing off. I often think of the time I left you all and came to New York. I do not know whether you ever heard about my coming or not; when I got to NY there must have been some mistake about the express, for I was out on the street walking along, when I was picked up by one policeman and put in a cab, taken out of that and put in another, and was driven to Mr Ward’s office, waited there for a little while, when Mr Potter came, and we all went to Bloomfield. I must stop writing, and will you answer this letter as soon as you can? I will write a note for Mr Birchall, and will you please give it him when you see him. Direct care J.H. Potter, Bloomfield N.Y. Elizabeth Chesworth Mary Ann Law, 12, came from Kirkdale the following year on the SS Peruvian 1870 Nov 9 KEENAN, boy
Passenger, Not a Home Child Coming With Maria Rye
KEENAN, (boy)came on the SS Hibernian 1869 Oct 28 - Nov 8 He is a passenger who is not a Home Child being sent to his mother. 1875 Letters -What the People Say About The Children - pg 9/10 New Hamburg, December 3rd, 1869. Miss M S Rye, Niagara, Ont. Miss: Your letter of the 1st inst. Received. The boy Keenan has arrived, and I delivered him all right to his mother, Mrs. Beams. She says she cannot find words sufficient to thank you for your kindness to her boy. The boy himself says you acted like a mother towards him. With many thanks for your kindness, I remain, yours truly, W. Dunwoodie. P.S. I have been advised to return you thanks, through the Toronto Daily Leader, for your kind attention to the boy. W D Clara, Ellen & Mary Ann BennettClick here toClara 5, Mary Ann, and Ellen Bennett, 11 came on the SS Prussian July 14, 1870 Jul 14 arriving at Quebec July 25th. They came from the Bristol Workhouse who paid £11 for their expenses to come to Canada with Maria Rye.
Clara ended up in Montreal, Ellen in St Davids and Mary Ann in Stamford both of which are in the same area in Niagara. 18 the children were free to go on their own but in 1881, Mary Ann, 22 is still living with the original placement family, the Robertson's. Sibling were not always kept together! Below are 2 letters - one from Mary Ann and one from Ellen asking about their siblings. Transcribed as written. What the Children Say about Canada - Bristol Workhouse - page 41 Miss Rye: I am glad to tell you I have a good Home, and I hope my dear sisters will have as good a Home as I have, my mamma would like have them near to me, so that I could see them sometimes. My mama and dada is very kind to me. Please write and tell me where my sisters is. Mary Ann Bennett What the Children Say About Canada - pg 26 St. David's Street, July 17th, 1871. Our western home, niagari To Miss Rye. Mrs. Lines has allowed me to write to you to ask you to inform me were my sisters are, if you please i would be much obliged if you would Be kind enough to answeer my letter, my misstress and master are Both very kind, we have got wery pretty littel BaBy, how is the little BaBy that wasat ni ther (Niagara) when i was as i should like to know. So I, Ellen Bennett. The baby would be Clara Harding, 1 who came on the same ship.An article was already done on Clara and her siblings. edit. Johanna Stillwell
Johanna STILLWELL, 12, came on the SS Prussian July 14 1870 arriving at Quebec Jul 25. She along with a few other girls came from the Bristol Workhouse Union who paid £11 for their expenses. Some placements for Johanna: 1871 Census - STILLWELL, JOANNA, 12, England, CE, with Henry AKELL, merchant. District 5, Subdist C, Div 2, Pg 4, Southwold Twp., Elgin County. LAC 9898. 1878 Rye Report - #154 - Elgin, Port Stanley 1881 Census - St James Ward, Toronto, Ont, FHL 1375882, LAC C-13246, Dist 134, SubDist E-2, Pg 147 Robert EASTON, 42, Scotland, Tel Operator, Presbyterian Johanna STILLWELL, 23, England, Servant, Church of England What the Children Say About the People - pg 35/6 Port Stanley, April 7th, 1871. Dear Miss I was very much pleased when I received your letter. I am glad you enjoyed your holiday. I have heard where my sister lives, and have written to her this week. She lives at Mr James Law, a farmer, only one son, at Thorald (Thorold). I thought you had letters from all the girls that you had asked to write you, and I think it very ungrateful of them not to write to you. I am very glad to hear that you received a letter from M. A. Cambell. I am very sorry indeed to hear of the death of Mr Greatorex. Give Miss Emma my kind love, and also Mrs Greatorex and master Eddy and Robert. I have enjoyed the winter very much. It has not been very cold. There has not been very much snow. I believe there never is much snow just here, because we are so near the lake. Please give me the names of some of the girls who are coming out to Canada with Miss Rye, who you can best recommend, for a lady in Port Stanley wishes to get one - one who is kind and gentle to children. Dear Miss ..., give my kind love to Miss Jane and to Mrs. ... I hope Mrs. ... has been well this winter, as she generally has a cold. Give my love to Mr. Spring, and tell him I have not forgotten the sermon which he preached to us before we came to Canada. I hope Miss Bessell was pleased with my letter to her. We have lately had a new library in the Sabbath school, and the books are very pretty ones. I hope Mrs Greatorex is mistress of the house still. Give my kind love to the guardians. I will write to you as often as I can, and let you know how I am getting on. Please accept my kindest love, I must soon write to Mrs .... Please write to me as soon as you can, for the lady is anxious to hear about the girls. I am, your affectionate and grateful friend, J. Stillwell I couldn't find a marriage in Ontario for Johanna so I haven't discovered where she ended up. George & Annie McMasterGeorge McMaster, 8, and his sister Annie McMaster , 12, came from the Chichester Workhouse, West Sussex on the SS Prussian leaving Liverpool July14, 1870 - arriving at Quebec July 25.
In 1871 George McMASTER, 9, is living with John MARTIN, farmer, HopeTownship, Durham County, Ontario.In 1871 Annie McASTER, 13, is living with William & Sarah GOURLY, shoemaker, St. Catharines Town., Lincoln County, OntarioThis will be a 2 part story for siblings George and Annie McMaster - this week will be about George and will be continued about Annie next Sunday, October 28th.1. (To Governess in Chichester, West Sussex, England) - “ I was waiting for an answer from Georgie. I came from Niagara before he did, and now he is in Port Hope. Have you ever heard of that place before? It is about one hundred and fifty miles from St. Catherine’s. I wrote to Miss Rye and asked her where he was gone to, and she told me that he was in P. Hope, and we wrote twice to him, but he has never answered our letters.” 2. (To Miss Rye at Our Western Home, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario) “I have heard that my brother as got a home, but I have not seen him or heard from him. Please Miss Rye would you tell me where he is gone; is he in St Catherine’s? Would you please to tell me the name of the place he is gone to, and the name of his master, and the church, and the minister, and what work does he do? Did he cry much after I went away? I know I don’t feel quite so happy as I should feel if I knew where he was and hear from him. Did you every hear him speak of me while he was there? How long ago as he been at his home? I hope has as got such a good home as I have.”1875 Doyle Report - Mrs Gourley of St Catharines took in Annie McMaster whose brother George had been placed with a farmer near Port Hope. George, very unhappy with his situation, was sent for by Mr Gourley who found him a job in St. Catharines with Mr R. But he twice turned the boy out of doors. Upon the last occasion he was found at the corner of the street, sitting on his box crying. He was taken in by Mrs G who kept him for some weeks, and got his present situation, assistant to a small market gardener, where he is in a very humble home, but is kindly treated ... He had been in Chichester Workhouse for 3 years, where his conduct was reported to be good. The information furnished the Guardians about him from Canada is: Good accounts are received from this child. He is at St. Catharines’s, in a gentleman’s family. The boys own description of the place in a ‘gentleman’s family’ was, that his master was a ‘sort of middlin farmer; that he was put to wash the dishes, scrub floors, drive cattle, and do little chores about the house.’ The good woman who so kindly interested herself for the boy, observed to me, “You are the first person, sir, who has ever been to visit these children or to make inquiry about them. 1875 Inspection Report - St. Catharines Centre, Rev G Burson - Inspector, George McMaster, 14, Chichester Workhouse 1870, (Rel) PC, doesn’t go to Church & Sunday School, with Mr Colburt, St. Catharines, adopted, clothes, here 1 year. Sent back to Niagara (Our Western Home, Niagara-on-the-Lake), as was not required & untruthful lad. 1875 Inspection Report - Niagara Centre, Robert Ball & Arch Deacon McMurray - Inspectors: George McMaster. 8 girls and 2 boys are now at the Home, viz 2 of those girls are quite unmanagable. And the latter boy Cook & McMaster promising looking lad, untruthful has been sent back to the home twice. Miss Bailey and her sister are in charge of the home in the absence of Miss Rye in England.I have tried to find George in 1881 census, also a possible marriage, even USA census with no luck so far. continued next weekGeorge McMaster, 8 and his sister Annie McMaster came from the Chichester Union, West Sussex on the SS Prussian leaving Liverpool July14, 1870 - arriving at Quebec July 25. Last week I featured George and the problems he encountered that were detailed through letters written by his sister, Annie. Today I feature 2 letters written by his sister Annie McMaster. Dear Governess: (Chichester, West Sussex, England) How kind it was of you to think of me! I am so disappointed that I could not write before; I was waiting for an answer from Georgie. I came from Niagara before he did, and now he is in Port Hope. Have you ever heard of that place before? It is about one hundred and fifty miles from St. Catherine's. I wrote to Miss Rye and asked her where he was gone to, and she told me that he was in P. Hope, and we wrote twice to him, but he has never answered our letters. Dear Governess, Jane Cannor has been to two places, and has left them both; the last place she went to was very near the next street to me. She had a very sore thumb when we were on the ship, and Ellen Young is gone to the University, I believe so, but I have not heard from her at all; I know nothing of the others. I am well and comfortable. I am very sorry that the winter has tried you so much. I have not been sick since I came from England; I do not forget my old home, although I am far from it. I am so glad the children has got a nice nurse; and do you know if they are going to get another governess? If they do I don't think they will get another one like you. They don't use fireplaces here, they use stoves. I have a nice home and kind mother and father are. Dear Governess, the ladies do not wear their chignons on top of their heads and their hair drawn so tight as you said. Mother has a very nice garden, with apple-trees, and plum-trees, and currant-trees, and grape-vines; and there is such a lot of apples grow on the trees, plums, and currants, and grapes. Give my love to Miss Alice and your mother, scholar, and sister. I remain, your affectionate scholar, A. McMaster Dear Miss Rye: I now take the pleasure of writing to you to tell you that I am well and comfortable. Mrs. Gourley is a good mother, and Mr Gourley is a good father, and they are all good and kind to me; this is the best home I have had for many a long day. I have learnt many things since I have been here. I am learning to cook, and bake, and iron. I now find that this place is like what you told me, it is a nice and comfortable place, and Jane Conner is gone back again; I am very sorry, because she lived very near me, but I hope the next time she is put into a good and comfortable place as this was from hich she is gone away, she will stay. There is a lot of the girls live near me, and two of them goes to the presbyterian Sunday school, those two girls that lives with the two Mrs's Jeffries, Selina Newbold and Mary E McCabe, they are in the same school as I am, and in the same class. How is the cook, and the nurse, and Polly Standen, and Jane Brixy? I hope they are all well and happy. Tell them I send my kind love to them. And how many is there left that came out with me? I guess there is but a few who helps the cook now I am gone. Dear Miss Rye, I thank you for getting me such a good home, and I thank Miss Alloway to, for she helped to get it for me. Have all the boys got homes yet? I have heard that my brother as got a home, but I have not seen him or heard from him. Please Miss Rye would you tell me where he is gone; is he in St Catherine's? Would you please to tell me the name of the place he is gone to, and the name of his master, and the church, and the minister, and what work does he do? Did he cry much after I went away? I know I don't feel quite so happy as I should feel if I knew where he was and hear from him. Did you every hear him speak of me while he was there? How long ago as he been at his home? I hope has as got such a good home as I have. I guess there is not many that have got such a good home as I have. Is Miss Alloway gone to England yet? How is the little baby? Have you got her yet? If I don't stay here I guess I shan't get another one like it. Have you had any snow in Niagara? we have had some. I give my best love to you. Please don't forget to write and tell me about my brother. I remain yours truly, Annie McMaster. Mentioned in a letter from Selina Newbold, "Annie McMaster and Mary E McCabe (who also live in St Catharines) send there kind love to you." All came on the same ship. Reference to ''baby'' is Clara Harding, 9 months who also came on the same ship with a brother George & sister Sarah. This family was featured Sept 2, 2007. Baby Clara, 9 months, is the youngest I have seen in the Maria Rye records. 1875 Inspection Report - Grimsby Centre, Cyrus Nelles & Canon Reade, Inspectors, 14, born London, MC, goes to Church & Sunday School with Mrs Gourley, St Catharines, not adopted, usual terms, here 5 years, housework. This girl has returned to Miss Rye being unfortunate. 1881 Census (could be) Catararqui Ward, Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, FHL 1375871, LAC C-13235, Dist 116, SubDist G, Page 73 with John C. WOODS, 35, USA, Merchant, Church of England, Annie MCMASTER, 20, England, Servent, Church of England. Jane Sandys & Emily Simms
Request from a Parent Requesting Child Be Sent Back to England A Year Later
and a Grandfather Requesting A Girl Not Go Jane Sandys, 12, came on the Prussian June 1871 from St Lukes Chesea 24th April 1872 Mrs Rose Sandys of No 7 George Street, New Oxford Street, applied to the Guardians relative to JANE SANDYS who had emigrated to Canada in charge of Miss Rye, and requested that she might be sent home and given up to her care but was informed that the Guardians could not interfere. A Grandfather Requesting A Girl Not Go The children selected for emigration to Canada in charge of Miss Rye appeared before the Board and severally expressed their desire to go. In the case of EMILY SIMMS, Mr Craydon her grandfather attended and expressed a wish that the child should not be allowed to go but as the girl in his presence persisted in her desire to emigrate it was resolved that the grandfathers wish could not be entertained. Ellen Bennett
A letter from one of Maria Rye's girls.
Ellen BENNETT was 11 when she arrived on the SS Prussian July 25th 1870 July 9 1870, Bristol Union paid £11 for her and her sisters to come to Canada (sisters Mary Ann 9, & Clara 5) 1871 Census - BURNETT, HELEN; 11, ENGLAND; with Wm E. LINES, District 20; Subdist A; Div 1; Pg 8. Niagara Twp. Niagara County LAC 9921. What the Children Say About Canada - pg 26 (as written errors and all) St. David’s Street, July 17th, 1871. Our western home, niagari To Miss Rye. Mrs. Lines has allowed me to write to you to ask you to inform me were my sisters are, if you please i would be much obliged if you would Be kind enough to answeer my letter, my misstress and master are Both very kind, we have got wery pretty littel BaBy, how is the little BaBy that wasat ni ther (Niagara) when i was as i should like to know. So I, Ellen Bennett. (A 1878 Rye Report states sister Mary Ann was in Welland & Clara in Montreal, Quebec.) So much for keeping siblings together! Ellen was still in the Niagara area at Queenston. Martha TUNNICLIF
Rough Voyage
Martha TUNNICLIFF came from the Bristol Workhouse at 20 years of age on the SS Peruvian 1870 Oct 27 - Nov 9 with agent Maria Rye. Here she writes a letter to the matron at the Bristol Workhouse telling of her arrival to Canada. There is no date on this letter but would be late 1870 or early 1871. Resource: What the Children Say About the People - pg 33/4. Further letters Furnished to the Department of Agriculture by Miss Rye, in Rebuttal of Mr Doyles Report 1875. To Mrs Needes, Matron, St. Peter’s Hospital, Bristol. Dear Madam: I know you are very anxious to hear if we arrived, yet we were on the water twelve days. We had a very rough voyage, we expected every moment was our last. I was seasick eight days. I never want to go to sea no more. The doctor was afraid it would turn to the fever, but, thanks be to God, I got safe over it. I took nothing but brandy and beef-tea for eight days. When we landed we rode in the train one night and a day. We got out at Portland, (Maine, USA) then we were on the water another day and night; I was seasick again. I preferred the last boat to the first; we were treated very kindly on both. Miss Rye was very kind to us. Forty of us went beyond Canada, the rest went on to Niagara. We were taken to an Orphan Asylum. I was there one night, when a lady came and took me away in her carriage as parlour-maid, where there are three servants, but she treats me as her own. I am getting one pound a month, and I have not half the work that I had at home. I am living in a very healthy place, called Saint John’s, New Brunswick. We spend six months in the town, six months in the country, which will be very good for my health. I have been in my place a fort-night. I was very ill when I came, I had bronchitis. I do not know what I should have done had I not met with a kind mistress. She had a doctor for me, and paid all expenses, but I am getting quite well now. Tell Mrs Williams I thought of her words when I was on the water. Remember me to every one in the house. Susan and me are living very near each other; she has a good situation, and is doing well. She has wrote to you. Please to excuse me in not stamping the letter, I will stamp it next time. I hope you and your family are all pretty well. I had a mind to jump in the boat after you when you was going away. Good-bye, I will say more next time. I remain, yours respectfully, Martha Tunnicliff (Reference to Susan is Susan Garland, both girls came from Bristol and are living in Saint John, NB.) |
