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| A Unique Photographic Record of Matlock & District, 1910-1915, and World War One Soldiers |
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| Place: | Matlock Green |
| Property / Street / Road: | Cliffe House |
| Date: | Apr 1914 |
| Description/Historical Information: | Walter Fredck Woolston
c/o Gibb's Home for Boys, Sherbrooke, Quebec. Walter is standing on the steps of St. Andrew's Home, a Church of England Waifs & Strays home, with the box he had almost certainly made himself. He was born in Lambeth on 30 May 1900, the son of Arthur and Alice Woolston. By 1911 he was boarding at Troston, Bury St Edmunds with the Matthews family. He then moved to Matlock and attended Matlock Bank British (later Council) School from 1 Jul 1912 having moved from Burage?, GLS. He left Liverpool on the Victorian on 29 April 1914 as a 3rd Class passenger to land at Quebec (Contract ticket no.57768). There were many boys of the same age on the ship, including a few from St. Andrew's [also see VLA4868, and VLA5230 and VLA2536]. A group picture of those going to Canada was picture was published in The High Peak News of 4 Apr 1914. Walter, aged 14, was sent to Sherbrooke, Quebec (Canada, Home Children Immigration Records Index, 1869-1930) See the website: British Home Children in Canada |
| Further information elsewhere on this site: |
Cliffe
House in the 1901 census, when still lived in by Ernest Henry
Bailey. Matlock Council School Kelly's Directory 1908 |Kelly's Directory 1912 | Kelly's Directory 1916 |
| Image Reference: | VLA4867 |
| Copyright: | © The Vernon Lamb Archive and Robert White. See About the Archive and About Vernon Lamb, Photographer. |