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Amy Rebecca Blakemore

Amy Rebecca Blakemore

Charles’ youngest child was born in Birmingham. She was a victim of his descent into drunken violence; her mother took her to the Middlemore home when she was 10. From there she was sent to Canada as a “home child” where she became pregnant aged 17. Charles sent money for her to return to England and her son Frederick was born in Blackburn. She retuned to Canada with Frederick and married a fellow hone child, Laurence Borley, in Ontario. She…

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