Orphan Willie Woods – Help Please.

[atth2o]

Hi All,

I just checked all the WOOD/WOODS births in Ontario 1903-1907 for girls possibly born here.  I than checked the mothers names for a death in case she was registered under her maiden name.  No luck   

Nancy

[atth2o]

I also checked the Border crossings and found this one but can't seem to find a census to match this family?

Name: Charles A Wood
Arrival Date: Apr 1910
Age: 37 
Birth Date: abt 1873
Birth Country: Wales 
Gender: Male 
Race/Nationality: Welsh 
   
Port of Arrival: Buffalo, USA
 
Married,
Residence:  Hamilton,
Notes:  (Wife) Elizabeth Wood, #64, Moorland Road, Cardiff, Wales,
To Cleveland, Ohio

Could be a clue but could also mean nothing.   

Nancy

[KarenM]

There a Charles Woods born 1884 in England, living out in New Westminister, BC in the 1911.  He gives his year of immigration as 1904 

Karen

[dollylee]

We seem up to our necks in Charlies so what's one more?

Charles WOOD , 29 , widower , millwright , from Woodstock , s/o Amos WOOD & Mary COLL , married Francis Jeannette PRUEW , 23 , from Woodstock , d/o William PRUEW & Hannah LEE , witn: H.V. GOSLING & Annie PRUEW from Woodstock , 9 Sept 1908 at Woodstock. Oxford County

Charles is found on the 1881 English census as born 1880 in Bradford, York, England .

He is about the right age and a widower.....but Woodstock?? And this certainly doesn't help us find William's  mother.

dollylee       

[waiteohman]

Hello

Just a thought. Could his wife have been unhappy living in the wilderness and left him and the boys to return to Wales? Forget this reread thread and she was marked deceased on Orphanage files. Maybe the husband remarried and the second wife did not want to look after the kids. I will see if I can find a possible marriage for Charles & Elizabeth.

That might work then for :

I also checked the Border crossings and found this one but can't seem to find a census to match this family?

Name: Charles A Wood
Arrival Date: Apr 1910
Age: 37 
Birth Date: abt 1873
Birth Country: Wales 
Gender: Male 
Race/Nationality: Welsh 
   
Port of Arrival: Buffalo, USA
 
Married,
Residence:  Hamilton,
Notes:  (Wife) Elizabeth Wood, #64, Moorland Road, Cardiff, Wales,
To Cleveland, Ohio

Linda

[atth2o]

Has the brother James been found on the 1911 census?  I can't seem to find a match in the Picton area which is where the Loyal True Blue Orphanage is?  I can find a possible match in the Sacred Heart Orphanage:

District: Toronto West 
District Number: 128 
Sub-District: Ward 6 
Sub-District Number: 95 
Place of Habitation: 1830 Queen H W

If this is where the brother is, there is a Anna Woods listed with him?

Genie, Can you verify if you have the census please.  If you have it, can you please post it.  Thank you

Nancy

[LesleyG]

1911 Sacred Heart Orphanage

James Woods age 5 born 1906 Ontario
Anna Woods age 7 born 1904 Ontario
Both are Roman Catholic, and of Irish decent.


Lesley

[KarenM]

1911 Sacred Heart Orphanage

James Woods age 5 born 1906 Ontario
Anna Woods age 7 born 1904 Ontario
Both are Roman Catholic, and of Irish decent.


Lesley

You wouldn't think the father would take them to The Loyal True Blue Orphange run by the Orange order if they were Irish Catholic 

Karen

[KarenM]

Here is a Charles Albert Wood, born Cardiff, Wales 1874 who signed up in Montreal, PQ and his next of kin is a friend 

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K