Orphan Willie Woods – Help Please.

[Gadget]

In case you're still there, I've been playing with the destination for Kate and the boys. It was all smudged.

Anyone care to take a guess? Sure looks as if it could be Picton  to me!

Gadget

[Gadget]

Dolly has gone to bed now but has sent me details of a marriage that looks very promising:

Sept Quarter 1892, Cardiff, vol 11a, page 542

Charles Wood

on the same page is a Catherine Meara - definitely Meara, I've checked the GRO page!

Haven't found a suitable one yet but there was this Henry, aged 6 on the 1901, born Scotland.

Have to be out for a while now.

I hope we've given you enough ammo to get going 

Gadget

PS - it sounds Irish to me, so might be worth checking O'Meara as well 

[J.J.]

Ah, but then we''ve been looking for a Kate with a James & William, but I thought I had looked for just the initials as well...Who knows what we miss...but that looks awefully promising....I would never poopoo the name John as being turned to James...If they'd lost the first boy and called this one John James....Middle names get reversed all the time....

Well...I think I have looked for Wood/Woods in the censuses about 9,000 times... Wow, if someone can find a death for a Kate, Katherine, Catherine....but then I am sure everyone's looked already as well...but are doing it one more time just to be sure...haha

  Thanks for joining us, Gadget...so many heads have to get us somewhere...and more of the bloodhounds may be coming today...

I love this site...you are all looking so hard...and I know we don't see all of that work on here, but we know its being done behind the scenes...

  Hugs to all, J.J.

[J.J.]

  Ah...missed that we now have a page seven...I also sent that marriage to Lesley for her search files as she has been working closely on the Kate/Charles connection...
Finger's crossed...Maybe we are close!
Hope so...For Dolly's sake...  ( Can you put that hair back in now?)
J.J.

[Gadget]

Hi JJ

Did you notice that on the unindexed version of the Kate an boys going over, John is just J.

The original image that I looked at on FindMyPast was a different layout to the one that Dolly found. Obviously there were at least 2 lists for that ship 

Gadget

[KarenM]

I have found a Catherine Woods in a cemetery very very close to the orphanage, might explain why he put them in that one.  Unfortunately you have to ask for a request to get information on death date, family etc.  

Where did you find that?  And what cemetery?

Karen

[geniecolgan]

Good Day to you All,

I'm just catching up on the action since I was last here.

Welcome aboard Gadget and thanks for helping out.

I'm sure that's them you've found coming over on the Kensington in 1906. It would fit very nicely.

There's a lot more stuff you folks have found that I have to study a bit but as we've been buried in snow, I've been a bit tardy on here  

Willys Son is probably shoveling too, so please bear with us....

I'll be back   

[J.J.]

geniecolgan's Initial query - condensed - with additions

From Willie’s memories:-
“came to Canada on a boat with his parents,  brother James  (possibe  younger sister)He was “at his mother’s graveside funeral before he and his brother were given away by his father”
He was “picked out of a line-up at the orphanage by his adoptive father”.

Facts:-
Willie and his brother James were at the Loyal True Blue Orphanage, near Picton, Ontario.
In 1910 Willie Woods was sent by train with a label pinned to him saying he was Master Willie Woods, being sent to Mr. Henry Thistlethwaite, Norwood, Ontario.

1911 census, with the Thistlethwaites-adopted son, Wilfred W. Wood, age 9.  His adoptive family renamed him Wilfred Ernest Thistlethwaite
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=135468

In 1964 Willie contacted The Loyal True Blue & Orange home in Richmond Hill, Ontario for proof of age.
Registered as -  William Woods.
Date of Birth -  Jan 1 1901.    Place of Birth -  Wales.
Date of Admission Home – Sept 19 1907.
Former Residence – Nipigon, Ontario.
Father – Charles Woods, Nipigon, Ontario / Mother – Deceased.
Date of Discharge – Mar 19 1910.
Adopted by – Mr. Henry Thistlethwaite, Norwood, Ontario.

James Woods was about two years younger than Willie and was never adopted.
James was placed with the Thistlethwaites sometime after Willie but he ran away. Then he went back to the orphanage until he was of age to be independent.

Orphan home found on 1911 - no James
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,283110

1901 Wales Census, Bridgend, Glamorgan

Charles Wood   41        Head    Painter    born Barrow in Furness Lancs
Kate Wood       39        Wife                 born Glamorgan Cowbridge
Henry Wood      6         Son                  born Edinburgh
William Wood    8mths   Son                   born Glamorgan Cowbridge

William Wood birth registered in Bridgend Sept qtr 1900.
James Wood birth registered in Bridgend March qtr 1903.
Lesley

Marriage information for the boys William & James - by Nancy :
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,283110.0.html

Willy's son joins us...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,283110.30.html
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,283110.30.html

Canadian Border Crossings- I found a Charles Wood born 1861 trying to enter the US in 1915 at Niagara Falls.  He is a widower, born in England, and has no relatives in Canada.  His occupation is plasterer.  He was not allowed to enter the US, it doesn't say why.

The details for this Charles seem to fit with the family that was in Bridgend Wales in 1901.  On that census Charles was born about 1860/61 and was a painter.  I have had many ancestors who changed back and forth every ten yrs between plasterer and painter.

Still can't find any matching deaths though. Lesley

I've found a possible trio crossing in 1906 which could fit the Bridgend family:

27 September 1906
Liverpool to Quebec - Ship: Kensington, Dominion Line
Kate Wood, 30, wife
William Wood, 6
John Wood, 2

Unfortunately, I can't find Charles - maybe he went before - and Kate's age is a little less.         Gadget

Here is the link to the original: http://www.rootschat.com/links/02oh/

It does say she is going to meet her husband but a lot of the rest of it is kind of blobby.   dollylee

also from dolly:
Sept Quarter 1892, Cardiff, vol 11a, page 542
Charles Wood on the same page as a Catherine Meara

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Lots of other information found, but this seems the promising one...
so we'll concentrate on this find...

[dollylee]

 

Where did you find that?  And what cemetery?

Karen

OCFA  No information given...I long for the old days when they first put them on line completely as transcribed.

Wood, Catherine  cemetery:  Bethel/Doxsee  Sophiasburg Prince Edward County  Q-P8072

dollylee

ready to post but waiting for another poster ....ahhh, it's J.J.  what a great job !!!