Trish, it would seem from what Sheila has said about the Radford children's Home my Alfred Henry could easily have been there and "shipped" out as a servant/child labour.
Sheila, thanks, I am really suspecting this is where both my ancestor Alfred Henry and his brother John ended up at something like this. In todays language they were in the "system"
Annie, both of these boys lost there dad age 5 and 6, they had been brought up in the slum area's which today is Victoria shopping centre, I've an article about the Trinity Square church opposite where it said the police were scared to enter the area alone. I have a Nottingham Evening Post article from when John eventually marries with 3 children is sent to jail for 3 months for neglect of his wife and family, neighbours and the police had been feeding them, the case was brought by the NSPCC, I found him in 1911 in Nottingham/Bagthorpe prison. On the 1911 census Alfred's wife scrawls over the record "Bagthorpe prison", I don't believe he was there but it looks all too much like an angry wife.
Alan, staggering indeed, I shall look into this, a few years after the census entry above, Alfred is arrested caught by strangers and then arrested for trying to commit suicide trying to jump off Trent Bridge.....he tells the judge "I have Trouble at home". I wonder whether both he and his brother John ended up in Canada, I do know Alfred's wife eventually re-marries but I can't find death records for either. I shall try and find your PM
I have previously searched the other 3 branches of my tree, the Elliott's originally from Coventry, the Provis's from South Wales, the Eatheringtons from Uttoxeter I just knew the Campions would give me trouble!! thetas why I left them to last I guess!
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