Hi Kaycee
Thank you for posting again and wow ain't this somthin. We got us sum relatives on the udder side of the pond we neber knew of.
I am going to use the private message system and send my email address as well as my facebook link.
For the benefit of other people reading this thread, I'd like you to know that Ethel's ancestry has been looked into by people before. No-one has been able to find the connection to her past in the UK. We have known the frustration of hitting a dead end for a lot of years. Last year I searched through one census after another all over the UK using the LDS site, Ancestry and others. I was able to find her in the Canadian census but no further back in time than when she landed here in 1909. My hunt for her records was for an Ethel May Reid or Reed that was born in the UK. Last summer I spent hours every day on my computer and writing down records in a book. There were at least three women helping me search. They were members of the British Home Children Advocacy Group in Canada. Needless to say my notebook starting to fill page after page with possibilities and now when I see it sitting here in front of me ...I see pages and pages of notes that are all roads to dead ends.
We grew up knowing Ethel's last name was Reid and nothing else. In my search last summer the closest possibility I found was an Ethel born near Newcastle on Thyme. In the end I gave up looking as all possibilities were all too quickly becoming dead ends and Ethel May Reid could not be found. The only place left to turn to Barnardos and it was my understanding they wanted to be paid to release birth records. I'm retired and on a limited income and I simply can not afford their costs of about $150.00 Canadian. After searching for about six weeks I had to give up. All roads led to dead ends and I could not afford Barnardo's fees.
It was then realized by Karen and myself that Barnardos offer basic records for free to Canadians and Australians but, you had to be a direct living descendant of the person being searched. My youngest brother Keith and his twin sister Annette were following my research. We were warned that many other people had tried to search for these records but no-one found any success as record searches led to dead ends.
Doug Holden in Kamloops and his wife aunt Bea sent Annette a copy of Ethel's birth certificate to my sister who sent me a copy of it. At that time I had a copy of her death certificate. I knew when she came to Canada and about the Lang family and the Morton family in Canada. Using family memories and census records I was able to learn some things about her life in Canada. I started a family tree an My Heritage and it has over 250 people on the tree. I reached the limit as a free member. In time Karen turned to Charles Holden, (her father in-law and my uncle) Ethel's son to send to Barnardo's for birth records. It was only then we learned Ethel Reid was in fact Ethel May Reed Lloyd from Hereford UK.
Now we learn we have relatives in the UK that may be able to add to our record search....wow !!
I did a search and stumbled upon this thread and there was Ethel May Reid/Lloyd and she wasn't a Geordie after all. From half way round the world searching, there in the UK not that far from Hereford in Aldershot UK lives relatives to Ethel May Reed Lloyd. The little girl that carried her mother's maiden name at birth due to her parents not being married when she was born. If a young girl of 15 years old was experiencing life and learning then it makes sense some people could judge and brand her as being an unfit parent.
Thank you Karen for your help and yup after all these years Ethel May Reid did come from the UK !!
Please bear with me ...lol ...sorry Barnardo no cash coming from us we don't need you...sorry
we master the helm of our own ship from here on in
