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Rootgatherer,

Many 7 year olds went to Canada without their families as 'Home Children' !

I haven't looked into this thread yet so don't know if that might have been the case.

Dea x

1916 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta about William Charles Bowron
Name: William Charles Bowron
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 38
Est. Birth Year: 1878
Birthplace: England
Year of immigration: 1910
Home in 1916: 17, Battleford, Saskatchewan
Racial or Tribal Origin: English
Relation to Head of Household: Self
Spouse's Name: Mary Bowron
Sub District Desc.: Fractional Township 43, range 16, W. 3. M., south of the N. Saskatchewan River, including the Town of Battleford
Household Members:
Name Age
William Charles Bowron 38
Mary Bowron 41
William Bowron 14
Irene Bowron 13
Richard Bowron 10
Albert Bowron 8

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Source Citation: Year: 1916; Census Place: Saskatchewan. Battleford. 17; Roll: T-21936; Page: 27; Family No: 292

It looks as though WC's attestation papers are online as well.

Maureen
Edit: on
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-100.01-e.php

The Bowron killed in WW1; (Note a middle name of Watson)

Name: BOWRON, WILLIAM CHARLES WATSON
Initials: W C W
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Unit Text: 14th Bn.
Age: 39
Date of Death: 26/09/1916
Service No: 441254
Additional information: Son of William Anthony Bowron, of 47, Kingsdown Rd., Upper Holloway, London; husband of Mary Bowron, of Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada. Enlisted in 53rd Bn. at Battleford.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Memorial: VIMY MEMORIAL

Passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960

Name: Mary BOWRON
Date of departure: 14 November 1913
Port of departure: Liverpool
Destination port: Quebec
Destination country: Canada

Date of Birth: 1874 (calculated from age)
Age: 39
Marital Status:
Sex: Female
Occupation: Wife
Notes:
Passenger recorded on: Page 4 of 20
The following people with the same last name travelled on this voyage: -
Alb BOWRON
Irene BOWRON
Rd BOWRON
Wm BOWRON
Ship: EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
Official Number: 120940
Master's name: J A Murray
Steamship Line: Canadian Pacific Railway Atlantic Steamship Line
Where bound: Quebec, Canada
Square feet: 10617
Registered tonnage: 8023
Passengers on voyage: 627

Maureen

His attestation papers give dob May 24,1879, London.
Nok wife Mary, Battleford, Sask.
Trade, carpenter.

There is a sister called Elizabeth 1891

Name: Elizabeth Tucker
Age: 14
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1877
Relation: Daughter
Father's name: Richard Tucker
Mother's name: Elizabeth J Tucker
Gender: Female
Where born: Blandford, Dorset, England

Civil parish: Blandford Forum
Ecclesiastical parish: Blandford
Town: Blandford
County/Island: Dorset
Country: England

Registration district: Blandford
Sub-registration district: Blandford
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 1634
Folio: 52
Page Number: 27
Household Members: Name Age
Richard Tucker 47
Elizabeth J Tucker 42
Elizabeth Tucker 14
Richard I Tucker 13
Emely B Tucker 9
Charles Tucker 7
Beatrice T Tucker 5
Therza V Tucker 3

This could be her mother ??

Name: Elizabeth Maria Tucker
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1882
Spouse Name: Thomas Edward Watson
Spouse Age: 21
Record Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 26 Dec 1902
Parish: St Peter, Hammersmith
COUNTY: London
Borough: Hammersmith and Fulham
Father Name: Joseph Tucker
Spouse Father Name: Charles Watson


Well maybe not wrong father....sigh

I'm going to stick by my first thery illigitamate daughter of Elizabeth or Eliza Tucker father being william charles watson Bowron

am still very confused and trying so hard to piece this puzzle together thank you so much everyone for your help in tryin to piece this for me.any more help is much appreciated. i myself am still confused where the bannister comes from. i also have come to believe that maybe elizabeth did have a child bein belle with her sisters husband and names n dates have all been altered.

Not that I could see a marriage but perhaps the sister Elizabeth is living with someone called Bannister?

jax

thank you jax for all your help as i now believe your theroy too. as my nan Belle Bowron Tucker did not use her Tucker surname she was know as Belle Bowron. Later when she gave birth to my father she named her son Anthony George William Bowron. i can now she why thank you so much now my head is sort of clear as now have more understandin of how the past possibly was. I always belived there was a cover up somewhere.

Its not really something you can prove now unfortunatly

jax

i know and thats the sad thing as its taken so long to try and find out where i come from.and the history of my family. i just really needed to know how n why i was a Bowron as my father always drilled it into my head my real surname is Bowron.Its just a shame there was so much cover up as now theres no family to reconnected with. thanks shane