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Nathan or Nathaniel Hamlet, born in Birkenhead about 1898.

Believed to have emigrated to either USA, Canada or perhaps Australia.

Can anyone help to track this elusive sleuth?

Thanks.

Jim

Hi Susan

Gosh that was fast. Thanks a million for your time and effort. Correct his mother is Hannah Hamlet (nee Burns).

Where did you find the details about Ontario, Canada as this may be the link that I have been looking for, two and a half years in fact. Bravo, I am impressed, well done and thank you very much.

Can you advise how I get onto the Canada search stuff?

Jim

Is this him
Social Security Death Index
about Nathaniel Hamlet
Name: Nathaniel Hamlet
SSN: 144-14-6555
Last Residence: 07111 Irvington, Essex, New Jersey, United States of America
Born: 21 Feb 1898
Died: Oct 1968
State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (Before 1951 )

1930 census

Name: Nathaniel Hamlet
Home in 1930: Union, Union, New Jersey
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1901
Birthplace: England
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Annie
Race: White
Occupation:

Education:

Military service: no

Rent/home value:

Age at first marriage: 24

Parents' birthplace: England
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Nathaniel Hamlet 29
Annie Hamlet 38 English canadian
Adelle Hamlet 11
Allen Hamlet 8

Hi Susan,

Thanks again.

Jim

This is full marriage details of above
Name: Nathaniel Hamlet
Birth Place: Liverpool, England
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900
Father Name: Nathaniel Hamlet
Mother Name: Annie Murphy
Spouse Name: Annie Truelove
Spouse's Age: 30
Spouse Estimated Birth Year: abt 1894
Spouse Birth Place: Bathurst, Ont
Spouse Father Name: William Truelove
Spouse Mother Name: Mary Jane Dowdall
Marriage Date: 22 Dec 1924
Marriage Place: Carleton
Marriage County: Carleton
Registration district: Carleton

Hi Lynsay

It is very nice of you to also help out on this, so thank you very much. I have membership for Ancestry.co.uk, but not including USA, Canada, etc, just the UK.

I do not know which if any details are correct, other than what I have started this thread off with. Nathan/Nathaniel just vanished off the face of the earth as far as my older generation family were concerned, it was a long time ago of course.

Thank you for your help on this.

Regards.

Jim

Hi Susan

If the right person, that is a lovely name for a wife 'Truelove', very romantic indeed.

Thanks.

Jim

Hi Josephine

Again, thanks for your help on this too. I looked up the reference, looks about right. Nathan/Nathaniel comes up a few times. My grandfather called his half brother Nat (according to my older relatives).

So could be Nathan or Nathaniel.

Pitty we can not get hold of the next Census records after 1901 yet. I am sure that this would help immensly.

Thank you.

Jim

Do you know his fathers name

Possible

Passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960
Name: Nat HAMLETT
Date of departure: 31 May 1913
Port of departure: Liverpool
Destination port: Quebec
Destination country: Canada
Date of Birth: 1898 (calculated from age)
Age: 15
Marital Status:
Sex: Male
Occupation:
Notes:
Passenger recorded on: Page 10 of 41
Ship: CORSICAN
Official Number: 124191
Master's name: E Cook
Steamship Line: Allan Line Steamship Co. Ltd.
Where bound: Montreal, Canada
Square feet: 28822
Registered tonnage: 7272
Passengers on voyage: 1515

Hi Lindsay,

Crickey, you are keen!

His fathers name is Nathaniel Hamlet, born in Birkenhead as is the Nathan/Nathaniel I am looking for.

Thanks.

Jim

Hi Lost for Words

This one is intriguing as an alternative or mispelt Hamlet to Hamlett has occurred with the family name as recently as forty years ago.

My Nat/Nathan/Nathaniel's parents remained England until there death. So this lad would be on his own at fifteen years. Quite likely that it could be him of course.

The plot thickens. Thanks a million.

Jim

He is listed as British Home Child - I will try to find out more but this is a bit of info on the scheme while I look:

THE BRITISH CHILD EMIGRATION SCHEME TO CANADA (1870-1957)



100,000 British Home Children (alleged orphans) were sent to Canada by over 50 British Child Care organizations. These 4-15 year old children worked as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants until they were 18 years old. The British Child Care organizations professed a dominant motive of providing these children with a better life than they would have had in Britain, but they had other ignoble and pecuniary motives. They rid themselves of an unwanted segment of their society and profited when they sold these children to Canadian farmers. Siblings in care in Britain were separated from their families and each other. Siblings were separated from each other when they were sent to Canada. Most never saw each other again. Many spent their lives trying to identify their parents and find their siblings and most were unsuccessful. An unknown number of children ran away from their indentured labour in Canada to the United States. Millions of Americans may be descended from British Home Children. The 4-5 million Canadian/American descendants of the British Home Children have 20 million British Grandparents, Uncles, and Aunts. How could this many people not know they are related to one another? Their mutual searches have been hampered by the unwillingness of the childcare organizations to readily release vital personal information.

Dea x

Hi Jim

I've looked at the original image and all the others travelling with him are aged 10-16 and about 8 children on each ticket (mostly boys). Their were many children who went to Canada for a 'better life', often they were orphans but not always. I wonder if anything was reported in the local papers about them and why they went.

Regards
LfW

A little bit more:

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Name: HAMLETT Given Name: Nat Age: 15 Sex: F ??? (I'm sure this is an error)!
Ship: Corsican Year of Arrival: 1913 Departure Port: Liverpool
Departure Date: 31 May 1913 Arrival Port: Quebec Arrival Date: 9 June 1913

Party: Roman Catholic Emmigration SocietyDestination: Ottawa, Ontario

Comments: party of 45 children
Source: Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives CanadaReference: RG76 C 1 aMicrofilm: T-4797Type of Record: Passenger Lists/Listes de passagers
Group of Children Traveling Together

Dea x

Hi Dea

Sounds like heavy stuff and perhaps unsavoury too as you say. It is a pity that my aunts or uncles from the same family can not add anything further.

One would have thought over the years as they got older too, that they would have asked their father about this even more. Sadly, I do not know when Nathaniel emigrated, if indeed it is the same chap as highlighted here by other helpful searchers.

Thank you for your input and any other information that you may find.

Jim

Hi Lost for Words

This ties up perhaps a bit with the input from Dea. I will pop over to the Liverpool Libraries at the next opportunity to see if the Local newspapers for the time speak of such travellers.


Thanks again.

Jim

Hi Dea

The family are Roman Catholic and as per my comments to Lost for Words, Hamlett was another spelling (mistake) which I have come across present day.

Once again thanks for the searching, I am storing all of the responses and details so as to help form a better picture and to take back to my family for their input. Perhaps as memory joggers?


Regards.

Jim

Hi Susan

I tracked his father also Nathaniel Hamlet born 1st February 1872. I am good with this detail as I have a few birth, marriage and death certificates. Father died in Liverpool in March 1932.

I think that his father is George Hamlet born about 1846, but there is conflicting details as to whether this is the right chap or not. I need to do more work on this and spend a few pounds to ratify my finding.

I do not want to go back too far until I can ascertain Nathan/Nathaniel Hamlet born c1898 details.

Thanks for you help again.

Jim