NZ to UK 1950s Lookup

[groom]

It does actually say that she is a Canadian Citizen as shown by her passport and that her last place of residence was Canada. I wonder if the information on the passenger list is wrong.

[sharren1837]

when she travels to NZ in 1957 her occupation is listed as S. R. Nurse @ Staincliffe Gen. Hospital, Dewsbury with a UK Passport?  i dont know what her purpose was for visiting NZ or when she returned to the UK. 

Sharren

[groom]

I cant find any record of her going to Canada either. From those records it looks as if she went to Canada, came back to England and then went to NZ the following year. Passenger lists stop after 1960, so she may have returned from NZ after that.

Could she have been sent to Canada as an evacuee at the start of WW2 and stayed on there after the war? Although she would have been 16 in 1939.

[sharren1837]

hadnt considered the possibility of her being sent to Canada as an evacuee?  she spent some/most/all ?  of her childhood in a catholic orphanage so i guess evacuation could have been a possibilty.

Lots to think about.

[kiwihalfpint]

Hi,

Just putting another needle into the haystack .... perhaps she travelled out on the ship working in the ship's hospital.


Cheers
KHP

[groom]

hadnt considered the possibility of her being sent to Canada as an evacuee?  she spent some/most/all ?  of her childhood in a catholic orphanage so i guess evacuation could have been a possibilty.

Lots to think about.

Quite a few children were sent out to Canada from orphanages under The British Home Child scheme. I wonder if that is how she got out there and therefore had a Canadian Passport?  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~britishhomechildren/

and

http://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/

[sharren1837]

Hi Kiwi,

do you mean on the evacuee ships to canada? i guess thats possible, she would be 16 as groom says but i believe UK school leaving age was 14 then & i think she began training in nursing early on.

Hi Groom,

She would be 23 in 1946 & my grandmother was in touch with her in 1950 (she was pregnant with my mum) but im not sure whether this was by letter or in person.

[kiwihalfpint]

Hi Kiwi,

do you mean on the evacuee ships to canada? i guess thats possible, she would be 16 as groom says but i believe UK school leaving age was 14 then & i think she began training in nursing early on.

No, in 1957 and being paid for it while she was working.  Nurses pay back then wasn't great I think, it would have taken a while to save up for the voyage .... just tossing my thoughts out

Cheers
KHP

[sharren1837]

Hi Kiwi,

i guess thats possible, although she had inherited a large sum of money upon my ggrandmothers death in 1951. she did like the finer things in life, so its quite possible. nothing seems to make much sense at the moment.

Sharren