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Oh my goodness! According to this Reginald was a home child, an orphan sent to Canada.

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Return to results | Search | Online HelpName: CLARKGiven Name: ReginaldAge: 7Sex: MShip: DominionYear of Arrival: 1908Departure Port: LiverpoolDeparture Date: 12 March 1908Arrival Port: HalifaxArrival Date: 21 March 1908Party: Dr Stephenson'sDestination: Hamilton OntarioComments: Party of National Children's Home and Orphanage childrenSource: Library and Archives CanadaReference: RG76 C 1 bMicrofilm: T-503Type of Record: Passenger ListsGroup of Children Traveling Together

Update, possibly a different Reginald Clark, there was also a Matthew, age 9 and a James, no age given on the same ship.

So possibly George (Alfred?) Clark had died before 1906, the family were taken into care (still the workhouse at that date?), and the authorities paid for their passages as they became old enough to work (or once his mother had saved enough to pay for him to join her?)

[Edit, no that wouldn't make sense, Delina is down as married, not widowed]

The UK records have Matthew and James on the same ship, same year, but leaving Liverpool on 21 May 1908 - which would be a 70 day turnaround for the ship, which sounds feasible.

I must say, though, I have never heard of a home child coming to Canada to join a parent. They were always orphans who were adopted into families here. Some were very lucky and became a member of the family, others were treated as unpaid servants and had a very rough time.

What wonderful people you are but I'm now totally confused! I am so grateful for the time taken over this. I will print if off and study it in detail. I think Agnes must be a coincidence, but whatever did my great aunt Delma do with her 1st husband? I have a photo of her when she is elderly and she looks a real tartar! Reginald is definitely on the 1911 Canadian Census with his mother and her new husband and I have his military attestation record but why he travelled to Canada as he did remains a mystery. I guess poor little Winifred must have died. Hope I'm making sense here! Am off on holiday for a week tomorrow - I think I need it just to sort this lot out! Many, many thanks all.

Yeeeess, so since Reginald was with his mother in 1911, then either this is a different child (I don't have access to Scottish birth records, just England and Wales), or may just possibly be the right Reginald, coincidentally travelling with some home children?

(Edit - sorry, Cynthia, I was distracted half-way through posting this, which is why it doesn't follow on)

All the best with sorting it out!

Happy holidays! Cynthia.
Margaret