England Birth Certificate

Name registered: Alfred James Sidney Crump, however, the headstone reads Alfred Sidney James Crump. Grandpa preferred 'Sid'.

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ALFRED SIDNEY JAMES (SID) Crump was the youngest son of seven children born to JOHN Crump and ELIZABETH SMITH. SID was born on 29-Jun-1899 in Brampton Abbots, Herefordshire, England (Ross-on-Wye).

A few weeks before SID turned 4 years old his mother, ELIZABETH died on May 1, 1903 and his father, JOHN died on June 8, 1903. His eldest sister, EDITH (18 years), is listed as being with both her parents when they died within three weeks of each other, leaving the seven children orphaned.

Clara (Edith) married Albert Morgan in about 1905 in Gloucestershire County, England. Mary (Elizabeth) appears on the 1901 Census (age 14) as a servant for Edwards Family. His younger sister, Dorothy who was about 9 years old when her parents died, appears on the 1911 British Census aged 17, that she was living in St Jude's Home for Girls (L Waifs & Strays Home 1904-1939), located at 49 Dangnall Park, Selhurst, London. On the 1911 Census she appears married to Edward T Ward with two daughters living in Epsom, Surrey.

The three brothers: Charles Frederick (10 years old); Reginald Horace (Reg) (6 years old) and Alfred James Sidney (Sid) (4 years old) were all admitted into the care of Dr. Barnardo's Home.

On March 24, 1904, 10 months after Charles parents died, he emigrated with 194 other Dr. Barnardo's children from Liverpool, England to Toronto, Ontario, Canada via Portland, Maine, aboard the SS Southwark. His name was incorrectly listed as Clarence Frederick Crump. Charles arrived on April 5, 1904.

Reg and Sid emigrated on February 21, 1907 from Liverpool, England to Toronto, Ontario, Canada via Portland, Maine, and Halifax, Nova Scotia Ports aboard the Dominion ship arriving March 5, 1907 and believed that the three boys were reunited in Saskatchewan years after they had been separated.

Life was extremely difficult as a British Home Child - as a youngster, Sid "road the rails' from Ontario to Saskatchewan, settling in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, Canada. He strength and tenacity are evident in the accomplishments he obtained during his lifetime.

April 12 1929, Sid married MAUDE EILEEN BAXTER and together they raised their four boys and three girls in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, Canada.

SIid was well-known in Kerrobert 'as the best curling ice rink maker' in Southern Saskatchewan.

Records indicate Sid died just one month shy of his 94th birthday in May 1993 (aged 93 years) in Burnaby, British Columbia.