Jenny, that's a distinct possibility I had not considered. Age is about right. I has been a number of years since I accessed Canadian records especially those for the home children. Are the arriving passenger lists now available online? A later marriage for her perhaps? An entry in the Canada 1921 census as she would then be 19? cheers Bob -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 11:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: looking for a Violet GEARY death after 1969 On 30/01/2015 16:15, Bob Campbell via wrote: > > > > > Subject: looking for a Violet GEARY death registered in Surrey post > 1980 to compare birthdates > > I am trying to track down the last possible location for a Violet > GEARY. What I do know about Violet IF she is mine........ born Violet > CAMPBELL at Woolwich 12th July 1901 Shown in the 1911 census as a 9 > year old at a Catholic Orphanage at Croydon Surrey. by the process of > elimination there is a POSSIBLE marriage to Arthur W.C GEARY > registered in the June 1/4 of 1919 by which time she would be 17 the > couple had 5 children between 1920 and 1931 all born at Croydon. The > registration of her husband Arthur William C. GEARY's death in 1969 > at Surrey S.E. No "most likely death registered for Violet any where > on FreeBMD after 1969 , and likewise no second marriage. Any help > would be appreciated > Any chance she was the Violet Campbell, aged 11, who was shipped out to Canada in 1913 aboard the Corsican? The large number of unaccompanied (ie not with family) children suggests it was taking "British Home Children" (I think they were called that) to Quebec. A very likely outcome for a child in orphanage at that time. -- Jenny M Benson