Grandad gone Missing?

[victoria2]

Want to make a correction, that would make your husband my 2nd cousin. Sorry about that.

[casalguidi]

Victoria BOUGHS age 10 sailed from Liverpool, arriving Canada 21 Mar 1908 aboard the "Dominion" with a Dr Barnardo's party. 

Casalguidi

[victoria2]

thank you so much for your input. My cousin found this list today on Ancestory.com and it would seem that Victoria came by herself and no siblings were with her. It anyone has any info on the other siblings and where they ended up we would appreciate it. We all were in Canada but I wonder where the rest of her family went.

[missmuffet]

Hello again
My name is Nina and I can tell you about three siblings of Victoria, your grandmother.

Agnes Harriet Bough, born 9 May 1886, married Harry Arthur SCOTTER on 4 Dec 1907, in Southwark, Surrey.  Agnes had dropped the name Harriet, her father was named as Edward Bough, deceased, a licenced victualler.  I haven't followed this line down - yet!

Edward Samuel Bough, born in 1888 was a soldier.  I don't know who he married but, he stayed in the army and lived in Aldershot, Hampshire.  My partner remembers him and his daughter, Queenie Agnes Bough, born 1911.  Queenie married Jonathan Ernest BANCALARI on 26 Dec 1931 at the military church in Aldershot - the Garrison church.  According to FreeBMD, a  dau Bancalari was born in 1936, birth registered in Aldershot district in June quarter of that year.  Both my partner and his sister remember someone they called "Bubbles" and I think this is probably that person.

John Bough, born 11 Dec 1900, married for the second time to Gladys Hyldred SMART on 7 Aug 1936.  My partner and his sister are the only children of that marriage.

My partner and his sister were both surprised when I said their father was one of seven children,  they knew only of the two I've mentioned above.  We knew nothing about some of the children being sent to Barnardo homes, I just wondered why I couldn't find any of the four in the 1911 census.
 

[missmuffet]

Sorry, I gave wrong information about Agnes Bough.  She didn't marry in 1907 - I've just realised that I have her listed in 1911 as still single!  She was a housemaid in Russell Square, London.  It's definitely her, it states birthplace as Maidenhead, Berkshire.

I'll just delete that marriage from my programme.

Look forward to hearing from you again.

Nina

[casalguidi]

Hi Nina

Ok, so who we can see exactly who we are looking for ..................

1901 - 9 River Street, Clewer, New Windsor

Edward BOUGH head mar 40 lodging house keeper and general shop keeper b.Lambeth London
Harriett wife 39 b.Friar St London
Agnes dau 15 b.Maidenhead Berkshire
George son 6 b.Maidenhead
Victoria dau 4 b.Windsor
John son 4m b.Windsor
Eliza HAMMOND sister in law unm 20 domestic servant b.Boro' London

RG13/1169 folio 9 page 10
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1891  3a Market Street, Cookham, Berkshire

Harriett BOUGH head mar 27 wife (fish hawker) b.London
Harriett dau 5 b.Maidenhead
Edward son 3 b.Maidenhead
Thomas son 10m b.Maidenhead
Emily PERRY servant unm 18 general domestic servant b.London

RG12/1005 folio 39 page 34 and the preceding page.

1901 is equally helpful  Huh

There is a Thomas BOUGH aged 10 born Maidenhead, Berkshire and this is the household:

Charles RICHARDS, Head, Mar, 22, Scene painter, own account, Ireland
Eliza RICHARDS, Wife, Mar 23, Hawker, own account, Liverpool, Lancs
Bella RICHARDS, dau, 3 Liverpool
Edward BOUGH, son!, 12, Maidenhead, Berkshire
Thomas as above
Robert BOUGH, son 8, Maidenhead

So who exactly are we now looking for post 1901?

Casalguidi

[missmuffet]

Hi
Mother Harriet died in 1901, cannot find father Edward anywhere (including death indexes).

In 1911, I can find the following children:
Agnes as a housemaid in London
Edward in the army in Aldershot
Youngest son John in an industrial school in Mayfield, near Woking in Surrey.

Victoria had emigrated to Canada in 1908 - you have found this in the last day or so.
Since my posts earlier tonight, I have found that both George and John emigrated to Canada together in 1906, on the ship Dominion, leaving Liverpool 2 August 1906.

That leaves just Thomas unaccounted for in 1911, he would have been aged 21 then. 

Nina

[casalguidi]

You will find the army service record of Edward BOUGH on ancestry where he mentions his next of kin as sister Victoria and brother John.  There is also details of his marriage and children.

Casalguidi

[victoria2]

So many unanswered questions. I am going to try and locate details of where my grandmother was sent in Canada through the Barnardo organization. I wonder if when they went to England in 1922 where they visited and if they made contact with Victorias family. I understand that my father John and twin sister Ellen were born while passing through Montreal and then it looks like within 2 months they sailed to Liverpool. I have not been able to locate the ships list of that journey. I am just starting on this quest so I have a lot to learn as to how to get to the information. I so appreciate all your help. I did understand that the reason the family was split up was because of the loss of their mother and the fathers inability to care for all the children with poverty being an issue. It is sad to think that some of the siblings didn't know how many there were. It would also seem that a lot of the relatives are possibly still in England and also maybe Australia. I would like to find out what happened to the other 2 that went to Canada. Thanks again. Victoria