S.S.PARISIAN AUGUST 23, 1890





From: "Colleen &Charlie True" 

Reel C-4537 
Ship: SS Parisian; departed Liverpool 14 Aug. 1890; 
Arrival Quebec 23 Aug. 1890; 
Destination was Niagara NY party; Miss Rye's.  
Comments: Sailed via Londonderry 15 Aug. 1890, 
Miss Rye's party through Niagara NY via Toronto. 
Mrs. SAFFE Matron, is included in list.       

From: Top 16 girls from Middlesbrough Union Workhouse

Mary Walker age 10 Fanny Walker age 10 Jane Blair age 11 Sarah Slater age 11 Martha Findlayson age 7 Sarah Jaques age 13 Thersea Jefferies+ age 10 Lily Shaw # age 11 Mary Ann Shaw # age 10 Jane Savory age 10 Gertrude Teesdale age 7 Hetty Donnelly age 12 Lily Donnelly age 9 Mary Clarkson age 12 Ethel Anderson age 5 Lily or Lila ROBSON** age 5 Louisa Carter age 14 Margaret McGee age 9 Florence Morris age 11 Winnifred Colbourne age 8 Lucy Sheet age 12 Alice Whitingry* age 10 Clara Menn age 10 Elizabeth Wilkenson age 11 Mary Wilkemson age 9 Annie Fergusson age 12 Lilian King age 17 Christina Hardwick age 12 Lucy Hardwick age 10 Mabel Kitley* Gertrude Kitley* age 6 Ethel Kitley* age 5 Mary A. Woodgate age 13 Ethel Honwood* age 12 Marguerite Honwood* age 10 Agnes Tipping age 9 Rose Emebban (Emeddan) age 13 Charlotte K. Houre age 15 Catherine Woodford age 15 Florence Smith age 5 Alice Maugrdon* age 7 Sarah Parlett age 13 Florence King age 11 * -means that one of the names was hard to read. +(note at the bottom of page) #(my grandmother' sister's age on her marriage certificate and tomstone puts her age as 14 in 1890) **also spelt as ROBINSON.The 16th girl, not listed on the passenger list, but who we know from other.sources, travelled to Canada On the Document from the Dept. of Agriculture along with my grandmother and her sister, is a child by the name of Theresa Jefferies 10 yrs. going to Rev. James Aevde(last name is hard to read) Methodish Minister, Brant Avenue, Brantford Ontario. Has no children, Child as servant and companion The Guardians of Middlesbrough Workhouse also originally proposed to send the following 8 girls who, for reasons unknown (probably changed their minds about emigrating, failed the medical or friends/family suddenly appeared to claim them), were not emigrated to Canada Margaret YOUNG age 12 Jane YOUNG age 10 Edith COLE age 11 Hannah ROBINSON age 12 Annie BROWN age 10 Eliza BROWN age 8 Charlotte BURKINS age 13 Amelia BEDFORD age 11

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