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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #9 on: Friday 07 February 20 20:27 GMT (UK) »
Have you looked for them abroad? At this time many children in care were shipped abroad to Canada or Australia as part if the Barnados Home Scheme.

I am aware of that and Miss Steers home was part of that programme and she was a friend of Dr Barnado. I found an article which suggested that shipping to Canada stopped in the early 1900s. The same article contains the information on the home changing the childrens names. It said these children were shipped without their parents knowledge or permission. I don't think my grans family were split up until around 1910. My Ancestry membership is premium which I don't think gives me access to overseas records. It is something I have wondered about though. Not sure exactly what is available tbh. I do wonder if that may have been a bit late. I would have thought at 17 Charlotte would be already working? The lack of finding anything so far makes it a possibility.

We don't know how my gran got to North Devon but she said she was evacuated during WW1. I didn't know that happened in WW1 but I've done some research and it seems it did occur albeit on a somewhat informal basis. Miss Steers homes closed around 1920.

I have found their names on a few public trees but with no more information than me which suggests they had no luck either. There's one odd snippet my gran did mention. In the early 1970s she did mention a sister Alice. She said that at that time she may still be alive and living in London. I've no idea if she knew the others weren't or what that was based on.

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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #10 on: Friday 07 February 20 20:47 GMT (UK) »
There's an Alice Biggs the right age b Surbiton on 1911 (hospital patient) - can't find her on Familysearch though. Wondered if it were her, as they were living in Surbiton in 1901

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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #11 on: Friday 07 February 20 21:02 GMT (UK) »
There's an Alice Biggs the right age b Surbiton on 1911 (hospital patient) - can't find her on Familysearch though. Wondered if it were her, as they were living in Surbiton in 1901

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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #12 on: Friday 07 February 20 21:03 GMT (UK) »
There's an Alice Biggs the right age b Surbiton on 1911 (hospital patient) - can't find her on Familysearch though. Wondered if it were her, as they were living in Surbiton in 1901

She would have been around 17 then. Its one of the walls I keep hitting. Not knowing if she would have been known as Baggs or Biggs. Instinct tells me she was well old enough to know she was called Baggs. The other main wall is not knowing if any of the older siblings did go in to care or not. If not then it's likely I think her original surname of Baggs would be the one out there.

A, bit of supposition now. My gran always said she was one of seven and that the youngest was a baby she had never seen or known. I know she was actually one of six. However her father met another lady not long after his first wife's death. Their first child was born on 31 December 1910. My gran was in care by March 1911 and I strongly suspect this child was the seventh one she meant. It may be that she and her sister were put in to care because her father had a new family on the way. It may also be that the others were old enough to look after themselves or already be in employment?


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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #13 on: Friday 07 February 20 21:10 GMT (UK) »
Alice was born in Fulham. Her father was a coachman/cab driver and they seemed to have moved around a bit in the general area.

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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #14 on: Friday 07 February 20 22:21 GMT (UK) »
William was the right age to have been conscripted during WW1.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #15 on: Friday 07 February 20 22:29 GMT (UK) »
William was the right age to have been conscripted during WW1.

Yes and I have seen a few references on military records as WF Baggs. But I haven't seen anything with a full name or any way of making an identification. His father enlisted on the outbreak of WW1. I haven't positively found his father on the 1911 census either. I think I've found him but it doesn't match fully.

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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #16 on: Friday 07 February 20 22:45 GMT (UK) »
An Alice Louise BIGGS died 1912 age 18 (M Quartet - registration in Lambeth).
No other information on GRO index regarding parents.

Was she in Surbiton hospital in 1911 - not too far to Lambeth?
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Searching for the children of Lettice Elizabeth Susan Sharp/William Walter Baggs
« Reply #17 on: Friday 07 February 20 23:02 GMT (UK) »
On the 1939 registrar there is
removed
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)