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| Edith Ann Lloyd & Celia Regretta Lloyd Orphanage Photo - 1906 - England |
Edith Ann Lloyd was born in Abertillery, Wales in 1894. After the death of her father in 1905, her mother had a difficult time caring for her children and some were taken into the care of an orphanage. In 1906, age 11, Edith was one of 100,000 children sent to Canada during the child emigration movement between 1869 to the late 1930s.
Edith departed October 11, 1906, from Liverpool, England aboard the S.S. Dominion and arrived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on October 21, 1906. She was taken to a Dr. Barnardo Home in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. This home was called the Hazelbrae Barnardo Home. She bounced around a few times but as of the 1911 Canadian Census, the age of 16, she was listed as domestic help in Cavan, Ontario with the White's Family. In 1917 Edith married in Peterborough, Ontario and together they had 10 children.
Edith's father was William Lloyd born 1851 in Monmouthshire, Abertillery, Wales. He died from pneumonia in July of 1905. He, like most of his family, was a coal miner. Her mother was Mary Jane Waters born 1857
