Family who emgrated to Canada - help needed with details

[deejayEn]

My great grandmother's sister Emma Phillips (formerly Beakhurst, nee Higgins) emigrated to Canada in 1920 with her two children and her second husband David Phillips. The passenger list shows that the two boys had to use their birth surname Beakhurst. Against James Beakhurst's name there is written in pencil Pink Card. Does anyone know what this refers to? He is age 13. Pink Card is written against a few other names.

I am curious because I found three of them on the 1921 Canadian census (although not living with the relative Mrs Clarke they indicated they would be on the immigration/travel documents), but James isn't with them and I can't find him. I wondered if the pink card ref was relevent.

On the census record it says the parents had emigrated to Canada in 1908 but it was definitely 1920, so why was the wrong year shown?

As it happens all four were deported back to England in 1922, I can't find out exactly why but they are a fascinating family.

[aghadowey]

Things don't quite add up?
The 1921 census says parents arrived in 1908 and son Arthur age 12 was born in Saskatchewan.
Could it be that husband David did come to Canada c1908 and returned to the U.K. but when 1921 census was filled out the same year was entered for Emma?
Note that name in both records is Emma not Ema.

[DianaCanada]

The name on the ship’s list looks like Blackhurst, rather than Beakhurst.  I could not find James on either of the 1911 censuses for England or Canada.

[amondg]

There is a David Phillips who married Emma J Beakhurst 1918 reg. St Pancras.

On the outgoing passenger list dated 23 January 1920, Ship Grampian

Phillips, Davis 44 Groom
Phillips, Emma 44
Beakhurst, James  11  (not 13)
Beakhurst, Arthur   10

ADDED
Emma Jane Higgins married first Joseph Beakhurst 1898 at St Pancas

[amondg]

Greenwich Union Workhouse 24 November 1906
Emma Beakhurst 31  (1874) husband Joseph address unknown
Joseph  8   (1898)   
Eva    2  (1904)
Alfred 7/12  (1906)

Transferred to Pancras workhouse 8 December 1906
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1904 the family is in the Pancras Workhouse

Emma Beakhurst 1875  M (married) of 1 Melton Mews
Joseph    1899     of 170 Carlton Road    notation mother Emma 170 Carlton Road
Edith 1903
Eva   1904

[cockney rebel]

I could not find James on either of the 1911 censuses for England or Canada.

James and Arthur are with their mother at 27 Maldon Road St Pancras in 1911.
She has had 6 children, 3 of which are still living.

[deejayEn]

Thanks to all of you but I have already done a lot of research of the family in England, it's the significance of the pink card I was asking about and why James in missing from the 1921 Canadian census.

I think the 1908 reference is a mistake as none of them had ever been to Canada before. Beakhurst is sometimes misspelled as Blackhurst, Beahurst, Beakhust, etc, but I can't see any name that is close on the 1921 Canadian census.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Haver you got to the reason that they were deported? I'd heard of that happening because of various illnesses.
TY

[DianaCanada]

Haver you got to the reason that they were deported? I'd heard of that happening because of various illnesses.
TY

One of my relatives and her husband went to the US in Oct 1907 from England and were deported back a month later...he died in Jan 1908 of TB, so very likely they suspected he had it (the death cert. said of 3 months duration).