BARNADOS - Which area covered Howden, East Yorkshire

[bendywendy]

 Hi
Can anyone tell me which Barnados Homes would have covered Howden, East Yorkshire for the migration of children to Canada 1908. I am thinking maybe Hull or York.

I have two children, possibly sisters, who were transported together, their births are for Howden reg dist, but they do not appear on census's before they are found on the ships manifest and the Rootschat, Database for Special Interest Groups: Enhancements - New database for British Home Children:
13822 WALKER, Ellen Green 1896   ENG, YKS, Howden   1908 : Dominion   Barnardos - no death date
18021 WALKER, Florence    1898   ENG,                       1908 : Dominion   Barnardos - died 12 Feb 1912

It appears these sisters may have had another two siblings, all the children birth reg Howden and all have middle name of Green, none of them appear on any census's, and I cannot find possible deaths or marriages for the other two siblings that appear not to have been transported. I am sure they would have been enumerated on the census's if they were in the Workhouse or Children's Homes but I cannot find anything.

Gertrude Green Walker  Dec Q 1891 Howden, Yorkshire, England         
Thomas Green Walker    Dec Q 1893 Howden, Yorkshire, England         
Ellen Green Walker        Dec Q 1896 Howden, Yorkshire, England
Florry Green Walker       Sep Q 1898 Howden, Yorkshire, England

Both surnames Green and Walker were and still are in Howden, of which Walker is my paternal line. I have a feeling these children were all illigitimate, but without purchasing a birth cert for each or finding them on census's with anyone, this is like a needle in a haystack jobby.

I am from Howden so know the area extremely well, if anyone can help in locating any information I would greatly appreciate this.

Kind regards
bendywendy

[Milliepede]

What an intriguing puzzle 

There's a death for Gertrude Green Walker

birth abt 1891
death Jul 1893

Howden Yorkshire

BMD ref 9d 77
Sep 1893
Howden

[bendywendy]

Milliepede
Many thanks for that death, strange how we can look for things and cannot see "wood for tree's".

Just to find Thomas Green Walker now, certainly is puzzling and frustrating, hopefully he will be found, somewhere.

b.

[ciderdrinker]

Another child ?
Ethel Green Walker born Pocklington 1885 died Dec 1889 Howden
Ciderdrinker

[BumbleB]

Baptism at Newbald - Ethel Green Walker daughter of Mary Jane Walker, single woman of Smith Newbald - 10 December 1884

[bendywendy]

Ciderdrinker, thanks and I think I may have found another as I have located Ellen Walker as Helen Walker (corrected to Ellen) brn 1897 in Gwillimbury West, Simcoe South, Ontario, Servant, immigrated 1909, both dates fit and which along with another servant a George Walker, brn c1889 England, immigrated 1911 and there is a George Walker who was transported 1899, could this be coincidence or is he another sibling.

BumbleB, thanks and interesting too

b.

[Milliepede]

Death for Ethel Green Walker
Sorry you already have that 

[BumbleB]

From the Barnardos website - www.barnardos.org.uk - what we do - our history - Barnardos homes - Yorkshire.

A list of 17 former homes.  By clicking on individual addresses, a photograph and dates of opening and  closure.

 

[Lori.o]

Have you tried the Ups and Downs index for any mention of these girls?
http://www.bifhsgo.ca/cstm_upsAndDowns.php

Florence is listed on my web site under deaths and burials.
http://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/park-lawn-cemetery---barnardo-plot.html

Florence Green Walker
Born: 1898
Died: Feb 1912, Toronto, Ontario
Cause: Tubercular pneumonia
 was born in 1898; in the 1901 UK census she is three years old, living with her parents George (26) and Edith (21) in Kettlestone, Norfolk, England. Also listed are her sister Ellen, age one, and her widowed grandmother Martha Walker, 62. George is shown as a carter on a farm.

I haven't been able to determine what happened to Florence's parents.

Florence was 10 when she arrived in 1908 on the Dominion, via Barnardos. Ellen Green Walker, 11, is on the same ship. (I think ellen's age is incorrect either on the passenger list or the 1901 uk census, i suspect the former.)

Unable to find florence on the 1911 census, but Ellen is in Gwillimbury, Ont, a servant for the Hambleys on their farm. I wonder what happened to ellen, and if she knew where her sister was laid to rest.

Florence Walker died Feb 1912 of Tubercular pneumonia in Toronto. Address was given as 50 Peter Street, buried from Bates & Dodds. She was 14.

Lori Oschefski