Urgent: Missing Hodge (Collins) Homechildren

[Lumber-Jack]

Well done Karen....and there goes my theory about William Henry Collins!
So the Bank of Commerce does hold the answer.
I am looking for a Christina Hodge who banked at the CIBC 100 Queen Street North, Kitchener in 1919. She may have lived quite close by or in a rural neighbourhood near Kitchener. Her sister Elizabeth may have been living with, or near her.
Someone in Canada has to have known of them!
Thanks, Lumber-Jack

[aghadowey]

I'm still of the notion that Christina lived outside the town otherwise she would have not given a c/o the bank address.

[Romilly]

Hi Lumber-Jack,

Just read your Posts...& am hoping that you manage to find something on these ladies.

Two of my Warren Great Uncles were sent to Canada as Home Children in the 1920's, & so far I have had no success in tracing them after 1930:-(

My relatives certainly seem to have disappeared!

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[KarenM]

Sorry didn't add to the address of 100 Queen Street, that is Walter Collins home address.

I really can't see someone having their mail sent to the bank, even if they lived in a rural area    Kitchener was a fairly big town at that point and the rural area was well established at that point.

Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Imperial Bank of Commerce merged, mabye c1950's (my mum worked for years at the CIBC  )

Kitchener was known as Berlin till after the 1st World War, then they changed the name to Kitchener.

Queen Street is a main Street in Kitchener.

Karen

[KarenM]

Found this possible marriage......

Walter Henry Collins
Age:  29 years
Place of Marriage:  Collingwood, Ontario
Residence when married:  Latchford
Place of birth:  Millbrook
Occupation:  Banker
Father:  Thos. B. Collins
Mother:  Frances Armstrong
Church of England

Ethel May Mussen
Age:  27 years
Place of Birth:  Scarborough
Father:  C. Horace Mussen
Mother:  May V. Schofield

Witnessess:  J. Ridley Wylie, Toronto & Dorothy Perram, New York USA

Date of Marriage:  June 22, 1907, Collingwood, Ontario

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[KarenM]

So then here he is in Exeter in the 1911

http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/View.jsp?id=94658&highlight=15&desc=1911+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Walter+Collins

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[Lumber-Jack]

Thanks very much Karen for the great look ups.
 So we have a choice...either , as Aghadowey suggests, she lived in rural Ontario outside Kitchener or she was adopted/indentured to Walter the Banker perhaps to help with his young son Walter.
 Do we have a marriage record for Walter the younger? It might hold a clue like a witness name.
Otherwise I am still stumped until a family comes forward to claim her or Elizabeth; or until the 1940 Canada National Registration Request comes through. I wonder who lives in Walter Collins' old home now...there is probably no continuity?
Romilly , have you applied to the 1940 Registration in your search....it may breakthrough your brickwall! I hope so.
Best wishes, Lumber-Jack

[KarenM]

I see in the 1901 Scotland census there is another sibling Frances Stewart Hodge born in 1896.

On the Home Children database at LAC there is a Francis Hodge, age 14 arriving in Canada April 11, 1910 from Glasgow headed to Brockville, Ontario a party of Quarriers.

Is anything know about this brother?

Karen

[KarenM]

Great News!!!

While searching away for a potential brother Francis, I found one in the Quebec census in Brome, checked the Quebec indexes and nothing  so then I remembered other home boys who went to Ontario, then shipped to Quebec and then from there went to Manitoba so........ I thought I'd look in Manitoba Vital Statitics, nothing but I did find

Elizabeth Sinclair Hodge married Norman Richard Down in Winnipeg February 24, 1922

Karen