George Williamson Homechild 1911

[Sharon O]

Theres a George Williamson who went to Canada 1911 aged 11 from Liverpool..

Name: WILLIAMSON Given Name: George Age: 11 **********: M Ship: Tunisian Year of Arrival: 1911 Departure Port: Liverpool Departure Date: 06 April 1911 Arrival Port: Halifax Arrival Date: 14 April 1911 Party: Mr Wallace's Party Destination: Belleville, ON Comments: 50 Boys Source: Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada Reference: RG76 c1b Microfilm: T-4740 Type of Record: Passenger Lists/Listes de passagers Group of Children Traveling Together..

Can anyone get anymore details about this person for me i think he may be my grandmothers brother? any help would be great.

[J.J.]

well, this may not be the right one, as it says 1908 immigration...but just the fact that he is a domestic at age 12....am posting it anyway...were there other BHC George's of similar ages as well...
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/Test16.jsp?id=127881

looking further afield as well...

[J.J.]

I wish we only had one Canada board....

here is a similar request so we will work on that one:
 http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,265630.0.html

[eillo]

You need to find out who Mr. Wallace was, and where he placed boys under his care. Depending on what home George was originally placed in, you may find a great deal of info, including correspondence.

So I had a look and found that Mr. Wallace was a minister in the 1890s and was sent from Miss Bilbrough in the late 1880s. So  - who was Miss Bilbrough and what home did she represent?

Ellen Bilbrough worked in the Annie Macpherson home in London, England. When Miss Macpherson began to bring children to Canada Ellen Bilbrough came with her to manage the Canadian home that was established in Belleville, Ontario. The home was called Marchmont and Ellen remained there until her death in 1902.

Miss B. married Rev. Wallace (the man who was in charge of the boys on the list you found) and continued to bring children over from these agencies

Quarrier's
Mrs. Blaikie
Barnardo's
Strangeway's Home
Miss Alexander

So -- if you are lucky, it will be Barnardo's as their records are amazing! Read more  at http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/bilbrough.html

[J.J.]

am sending to completed, as there is another query for this on the other board....
see above