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Note: I was browsing through Ancestry.com and was surprised to see the sister of my maternal great grandmother listed there. Did you know that Ada May had a sister named Ellen who married, lived and died in Ottawa. My great grandmother was Ella Maude Langford but Langford was not her birth name, it was Hopkins. Her natural parents were Patricia Sarah Faulkner and William Hopkins.
On January 9, 1890 Ellen Hopkins and her sister Ada May Hopkins were placed in the Quarrier's Orphan Homes of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. Their mother reads and signs the immigration forms for both girls.
On January 24, 1890 both girls are sent to Bridge of Weir, Scotland.
On May 9, 1890 Ellen (age 6) and Ada May Hopkins (age 8), along with several other children from the orphanage, are sent to Canada aboard the S.S. Siberian. The trip from Glasgow, Scotland to Quebec, Canada lasted 13 days. From Quebec the two girls were sent to the Fairknowe Orphan Home in Brockville, Ontario. To-day these children are called "home" children.
At some point in time Ellen Hopkins was taken in or adopted by Richard Langford and Mary Styles of Fitzroy Township, Ontario. Very little is known of what happened to Ada May after being sent to Brockville, Canada. I do know that she married Thomas Orange and I have their four children as, Ellen Jane, Mabel Inez, Ada May and Patricia Carolina.
"Ella" married George MacFarlane and they lived in Haileybury, Ontario. They had four children,Teston, Gordon, Archibald and Reginald. After George MacFarlane's death, Ella moved to Ottawa, Ontario and supported herself by doing housework. She married Joseph Himes who was a widower and already had four childeren of his own, Russell, Selwyn, Elton and Shirley, (half brothers and sister to Teston, Gordon, Archibald and Reginald). "Ella" and Joseph appeared to have lived at 308 Bay Street, Ottawa, Ontario until the death of "Ella" from Metasteses Astes-Sarcoma.
I have a copy of the documentation that was sent to me from the Quarrier's orphanage in Glasgow and the ship's manifest on which Ella and Ada May sailed. I have some birth, marriage and death certificates of the parents and grandparents. If I can be of any help in providing information, then fell free to contact me.
Bob Robinson
e-mail: bobrob @@storm.ca
May 12/2001
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