Thank you for taking the time to look into this, Alan. Unfortunately Charles' father abandoned his wife & children and in time two of them went into the care of Dr. Barnardo. Elizabeth Amelia Smith (b. 1878) was the eldest and old enough to work but died at 26 in 1905 after having one child out of wedlock, a son named George Roland Smith (b. 1899) who also came to Canada but we have never found out what became of him either; perhaps in time he returned to England or went to the U.S. Next was a daughter named Alice (b. 1880) but we know nothing of her either and surmise that she must have died young. The next two were Ada (b. 1882) & Albert George (b. 1885), both of whom went to Barnardo & then were sent to Canada. Charles (b. 1888 in Chelsea) was able to stay with his mother and one of his nieces from Canada visited him in the Manchester area. Sadly she died and her children have no other info about him. We do have a picture of him with his wife and son but with no identifying information on it. His mother seems to have married two more times - first to a Crisp and then to John Whittaker in 1904. John Whittaker died before 1920 and we believe she lived her last years with Charles & family.
