Charles Stanley (Belleville, Ontario)

[Hence]

My Grandmother Betty was adopted. Last year I discovered her birth parents as Rose Edith Buck (1904) and Charles Stanley. Rose's family I have made contact with but Charles remains a mystery.

My top suspects were a married man in his 70's who would have died the year my grandmother was born. I was hopeful as the adoption papers listed Charles as deceased…but he died of prostate cancer and I can't imagine a geriatric with prostate cancer fathering a child nor do I want to…

Other descendants of suspects I've contacted don't hold much weight but there is a Charles Stanley who arrived on the Sarnia from Liverpool in 1891 as a British Home Child along with his brother Henry. They were both bound for Belleville (where my Grandmother was born) but aside from the passenger list, the trail is cold. So I'm looking for any random help or Home Child record searches outside of the Canadian registry from which I've come this far.

Sorry for the long post.
Cheers,
G.

[KarenM]

Hi G,

Have you looked at the Canada Resources Board and the Home Children thread?

Karen

[KarenM]

Here's the link of the Charles Stanley arriving in 1891.  He is listed as 10 years old, so born 1881 +/-


http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/001015-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=32546&&PHPSESSID=clt12qsqhtfkng31lhnr5vo0i4

K

[Hence]

Thanks Karen, as I said, other than the passenger list I've got nothing. If he was bound for Belleville and came from Liverpool would that narrow down at all which agency he may have been sent by? Or perhaps what home he ended up at? Marchmont has no record of him. Or perhaps which area in Lancashire he may have been from? If at all…aside from that .govt.ca site all other sites seem have little or nothing…or a heap of broken links.

[polarbear]

Too bad Marchmont has indicated they don't have a record for Charles .... he and Henry appear to be in the Marchmont Home in Belleville in the 1891 Census, along with dozens of other children.

There is a Charles Stanley b. Feb 1881 in England who is a boarder in Montreal in the 1911 census, working as a labourer. I don't see a Charles b. England in the 1901 census at the moment.

Have you tried tracking what happened to Henry in case there are clues connected to him that could help with Charles?

PB

[Hence]

I'm trying heaps. Where have you found them at Marchmont? All the indexes I've searched online don't list them. And, is there a way to contact Marchmont themselves?

For my theory to pan out…Charles would have to show up back in or around Belleville around 1928. So far I haven't found him on the 1921 census but my Ancestry account isn't accessing Canadian records right now unfortunately.

Cheers!

[KarenM]

I believe the children sent to Marchmont Homes in Belleville where from Salford Boys Home.  The Together Trust has some info on these children.  I will send you the lady's email address for you to contact about Charles in a pm as I don't want to post her email address here.

The 1921 Census isn't completely indexed, so he may just not be showing up yet.

Karen

[KarenM]

Here's a link to their site

http://www.togethertrust.org.uk/about/family-history-enquiries

[polarbear]

I found Charles and Henry through Ancestry and worked back through a number of pages to find the first entry for the family household listing, a Robert Wallace whose occupation is Head of Marchmont House. I keyed in only Charles Henry and a birth year of 1881.

The 1891 census is normally accessible for free through the Library and Archives Canada website but the website has been changed around and I haven't been able to figure out how to access the record that way now. Perhaps someone else knows how to do it now?

PB