Barnardo's Children in Diss, Norfolk - Gladys Nicholson

[Norfolk Nigel]

Gladys Nicholson is on the 1911 Census in Diss Norfolk: RG14 PN11443 RD230 SD2 ED1 SN161. She is listed as a Barnardo's Child so will not be with her family.

[Kloumann]

This may be the mother on 1911 census as Blanche, widowed & a servant in Hampstead.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW2J-1M5

[Kloumann]

Gladys' sister on findagrave in Canada, 1975

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212108595/louisa-margaret_ethel_graham-pepper

[CaroleW]

The 1911 suggestion was in relation to the family found in 1901.  If the girls were with those parents in 1911 it would rule that Gladys out

[CaroleW]

I wonder whether it's a coincidence that the Gladys Nicholson b Clapham living in Diss is living with a family surname Price - given that Amy Blanche Nicholson was shown as widowed in 1911 & remarried to a Price in 1915 (not b Norfolk)

[J.J.]

Hello  Norfolk Nigel...As Kloumann noted, her sister was sent as Louise - 1909 - Annie Macpherson -Dest: Stratford, Ont.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01tmb/

Just wondering if you are a descendant of Louise, researching this family, or a group of other children?

There doesn't appear to be a death in that time frame for the father William Rumbold Nicholson...Nor a will? Might he have pulled a runner? Noted that his brother Frederick Rumbold Nicholson was also a solicitor in Battersea 1901, so perhaps he was clerking/apprenticing for him?

[J.J.]

Beg pardon for my error... in 1911 census Lambeth, Stockwell, London, England- brother Frederick (says married) living or visiting with father Richard, both are also law "clerks".
adding: My notes from last night although not relevant to your search, shows how a father with a good job did not always mean their babies would be well-kept or even welcome later in life.
RE: brother Frederick from above- His wife Annie in 1911 with daughter Vera. (Daily work as a Charwoman, says married but listed as head of household) Not sure what happened to Annie's daughter Lillian Young. Hope she was not sent away as well...
Found a tree on Family search shows Vera's life but does not mention Lillian.

[Kloumann]

Frederick married a Lucy Louise Hopkins, Lambeth, 1920. She is 10 years younger than him.

[J.J.]

Norfolk Nigel...Checking in...Was your query answered regarding Gladys? You had said you were looking for the Barnardo's Children in Diss, Norfolk.  If you are publishing this elsewhere, be sure to note with help from Rootschat.
Note that Gladys & Dot Haxby are boarding with the Rice family, & are shown as "schooling at "Barnardo's Home, not living there.  Your researchers on here found her numerous times and also pieced together some pretty vague clues! Well done all!
 Mind you boarding could also mean a work placement as many very young children were acting as labourers & domestics in Canada.
  I take it you are also looking at the other children also shown as boarding in other households, but schooling at Barnardo's in 1911
  George & Ernest Wells with Robert Leathers & family
  Jessie Colley & Mary Trevithick with Edward Reeve & family