Emerson Family in England

[rosie99]

and Mums death
Name Isabella Augusta Emerson
Birth Date 13 Oct 1873
Sep qtr 1970
Age at Death 96
Registration district Christchurch
Volume: 6b
Page: 578

[lizdb]

In Oxfordshire in 1901

RG13 1399 32 11
Chipping Norton

Frederick Octavius 29 glove cutter bn Chipping Norton
Isabella Augusta 27 bn Gloucester Down Ampney
Clarissa Pauline Ruby 4 bn Worcester
Ethel C 2 bn Chipping Norton

(now my Clarence Augustus in Worcestrer does appear to be linked after all!)

[lizdb]

Marriage
Jan/Feb/Mar 1893
Worcester   ref 6c 309
Frederick Octavianus A Emerson
one bride mising from page .......

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 ........which is Isabella Augusta Austin!

ref 6c 339 (one must be wrongly transcribed)

so Clarence was visitng her father in 1901

[avm228]

Claude and Eric must have returned to England at some point - here they are en route back to Canada:

SS Empress of Canada

30 May 1923 Southampton-Quebec

[Among 2nd class passengers bound for Quebec]

Claude EMERSON, 20 and Eric EMERSON, 16, both employed in farming. 
Last UK address: Bower Hinton, Martock, Somerset. 
Intended future permanent residence: Canada

Edited: they had arrived from Canada on 16 April 1923, so the visit was just for a few weeks.

[avm228]

1911 index has this
RALPH MALDO   ERIC EMERSON age 4 Yeovil

Births Sep qtr 1906   
Emerson  Ralph Waldo E     Yeovil  5c 345

Eric's namesake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

[punch]

A great big thank you to all of you for the information. Now the pieces are beginning to fit into place. One message referred to "a list of Barnardo's Boys". What is this  in reference to? I have never heard of Barnardo Boys.

[avm228]

It's a reference to children who were placed in residential homes established by Thomas Barnardo and continued after his 1905 death (the Barnardo's organisation still exists as a charity to assist needy children but has long since stopped operating children's homes).

You may find this link interesting:

http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/barnardo.html

Many children from such children's homes and orphanages (not just those under the Barnardo's umbrella) were sent to Canada (and elsewhere).  Collectively such children are sometimes referred to as the "Home Children" or "British Home Children". There are numerous online links, e.g.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Children.

There are also numerous threads here on Rootschat on the topic.

See also: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/who_we_are/history/family_history_service/family_history_service_trace_your_family_history.htm


Anna

[punch]

Thank you Anna for the explanation. I have learned something new. Is there any way I can find out who the boys, Claude and Eric Emerson, were assigned to in Ontario when they came over with the large party of Barnardo children?