George’s early life was difficult. His father died when he was not quite 13
years old, and his widowed mother apparently could not provide for him. More than half of George’s children died
before they reached their fifth birthday.
He struggled to make a living, and with his surviving family he
immigrated to Canada because he could no longer find work in England.
George Paradice was born on June 9, 1935,
in Bedminster, Somerset, just across the Avon River from Bristol. His parents were Francis Paradice, proprietor
of the Bell Inn on East Street, Bedminster, and Elizabeth (Lewis) Paradice.
George was on his own by the age of
15. He initially worked as a
porter. Later, he secured an
apprenticeship and became a ship’s carpenter and shipwright.
At the age of 19, on May
27, 1854, George married Sarah Ann
Maggs in Bristol. Sarah was the daughter
of James Maggs, an agricultural
laborer, and Hannah Bodman. She was born in Englishbatch, Somerset, a
tiny hamlet near Bath, and christened on
March 9, 1828, in Englishcombe, a slightly larger
village with a church about 3 km away.
Sarah likely met George when she came to Bristol to work as a servant.
George and Sarah had nine children, most of
whom were born in Bristol:
George Paradice was christened at St. Philip &
St. Jacob Church, Bristol, on November 19, 1854 at the age of three weeks. He lived less than a year, and was buried at
Holy Trinity Church, Bristol, on April 4, 1855.
Edwin George Paradice was born at York
Place, St. Augustine parish in Bristol on
February 7 1856. He died of pneumonia on
December 4, 1936 in Buffalo, New York, and was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Francis Henry Paradice was born on September 27,
1857, and his birth was registered in Clifton.
He was christened at St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Bristol, on October
18, 1857. He died on July 4, 1923 in Denver, Colorado.
Alice Paradice was born on April 1, 1859. She died in Denver, Colorado in August 1942.
Elizabeth Paradice was born in Bristol on April 13,
1860. She died of scarlet fever at the
age of three (June 9, 1863) and was buried at Holy Trinity Church on June 14,
1863.
Emma Paradice was born in Bristol on May 27, 1862
and died of scarlet fever on November 12, 1866.
Thomas Paradice was born on May 16, 1863. He lived less than a year, dying on November
12, 1863 of bronchitis and convulsions.
His aunt, Elizabeth Robinson, was present at his death. Thomas was buried at Holy Trinity Church on
November 15, 1863.
Annie Paradice was born on December 16, and died of
scarlet fever on October 26, 1866. Her
aunt, Elizabeth Robinson, was present at her death.
William Paradice was born about 1869 in Ontario,
Canada (probably St. Catharines).
According to stories passed down through
the family, George Paradice worked as a ship’s carpenter when his children were
young. While a shipwright might work on
land, the ship’s carpenter was a crew position in the British Merchant
Navy. The carpenter sailed with the
ship, where he was responsible for making and repairing the ship’s boats and
for any other carpentry needs that arose.
His duties could include fabricating jury masts, rudders, or yards;
plugging leaks and even making furniture. Peter Monks described the life of a
seaman in the Merchant Navy:
A merchant seaman is a man of independence of
mind and character. Discipline was
generally ‘free and easy,’ not the ‘spit-and-polish’ of the big liners. Often he wore what he liked on the ship, and
ashore. Whether his shoes were black or
yellow, his faced shaved or unshaved, his trousers dungarees or serge, his
shirt ragged or starched, was generally his affair.
The family legend states that at one time
George was shipwrecked off the coast of Africa.
After a long time and many hardships he returned to England to find
three caskets in the house. Three of his
children had died in an epidemic.
This story cannot entirely be
confirmed. British vital records do
confirm that George and Sarah lost two children to “scarlatina anginosa”
(scarlet fever) in 1866. Ten-month-old
Annie died on October 26, and four-year-old Emma followed her on November
12. Since the girls died almost three
weeks apart, it is difficult to imagine even two coffins in the parlour at the
same time, although George certainly could have returned to find that two of
his children had recently died.
Elizabeth had succumbed to scarlet fever in 1863, which could account
for the confusion over the number of children who died in the 1866 “epidemic”.
While no record of George’s having been
shipwrecked has emerged, there is proof that he sailed as a ship’s carpenter –
and that he perhaps narrowly escaped being shipwrecked. Australian records show that George Paradice,
ship’s carpenter, arrived at Sydney, New South Wales on the iron bark Coya on January 19, 1864. The 515-ton Coya had sailed from London to Sydney with Richard Paige as Master. The Coya with George Paradice aboard returned to Sydney on August 2,
1864, this time having sailed from San Francisco. Two years later, on November 24, 1866, while
bound from Sydney to San Francisco, the Coya
– without George Paradice – ran aground and sank near Santa Cruz,
California. An account in the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New
England Advertiser (1867) gives a survivor’s description of the event:
…we were all down at tea, when the second mate
reported land on the lee bow. Captain
Paige came on deck and immediately ordered the ship to be wore round. Shortly after- wards breakers were reported
right ahead and the ship coming round very slowly, when all of a sudden she
struck very heavily on the rock's, and swung round broadside on. The sea kept lifting her from rock to rock,
crushing her bottom in. She had at this
time made considerably nearer shore, and we all gave ourselves up for lost. The
sea commenced breaking over the bows, carrying everything before it. The boats were swept away by this time… The scene was now something fearful, the main
deck, being torn up by the pressure from the water under-neath, made one of the
most frightful noises ever one by one, and drowning under the lee rigging… A tremendous sea now swept aft and carried
some more poor fellows to a watery grave, and cleaning everything off the
poop. The ship at this time gave a very
heavy lurch and settled over to the windward, with the mast on a level with the
water. What few remained now were about
ten in number, all sitting on the side of the taffrail, the sea now breaking
over us very often until we began to get numbed in the limbs with the cold, as
at this time no one had on more than shirt and trousers, ready to do their best
for shore. It was enough to pall the
energies of any man when he looked to leeward and saw what a frail man had to
contend with. Nothing to be seen to
leward but a mass of hissing foam dashing with fearful violence over the
rocks. The end of the last few that were
now left on board the doomed ship was fast approaching. There we sat, looking death in the face.
Of the 29 passengers and crew aboard, only
3 survived. Among the dead were the
Master, Richard Paige, his wife and daughter and the ship’s carpenter, Frank
Bashbay. If George Paradice actually was
shipwrecked off the coast of Africa around the same time, he was more fortunate
than the Coya’s new carpenter.
George’s
fortunes deteriorated over the next few years. In 1869, the Royal dockyard at Woolwich
closed, as did the Gunwharf at Portsmouth, leaving hundreds of dockworkers and
artisans unemployed and without prospects of employment. How these closures managed to affect George
is unclear, although it appears that he had been working at Portsmouth. April 19, 1869 found George, Sarah and
their surviving children, Edwin, Frank and Alice, standing on the dock at
Portsmouth, waiting to board a ship for Canada.
They were participants in an assisted emigration program for unemployed
dockyard workers sponsored by the British government and the British and
Colonial Emigration Society. These agencies provided free passage to
artisans, labourers and hired men who had worked at the docks for at least a
year and had been discharged from the docks for a maximum of 12 months. In Portsmouth, the Local Relief Society paid
about £2.5s per adult to send both skilled and
unskilled labourers and their families to Canada. An article in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle dated April 21, 1869
describes the scene at the dock as the emigrants prepared to depart:
The separation of friends and severance of family ties
and home associations are in themselves affecting events even when they are
combined with the possession of means adequate to the provision of comforts
during the emigrant’s passage and the certainty of employment on arrival at the
land of his adoption. But how
additionally impressive are these effects when aggravated by poverty, by a
continuous and unavoidable demand upon the scanty store, and when emigration is
resorted to as an alternative between possible starvation or a long career of
temporary suffering! And the statement
cannot be characterized as overdrawn when we say that there have been few
scenes in this immediate neighbourhood so impressive as those that occurred at
the embarkation of the distressed families on board the Crocodile on Monday…
…And to many, indeed, a bitter and sorrowful parting
it proved to be. The tottering sire, the
infirm and enfeebled mother there met to bid their son and his offspring
God-speed; parents of middle age with a hopeful realisation of prospective
greatness and a possible participation in a happy re-union – friends from a
distance desirous of expressing sympathy with those who remained and words of
cheer and encouragement to those who would soon go, congregated around those in
whom they were immediately interested, and thus contributed to a scene which
could only be adequately realised by those who witnessed it. This, however, was but a partial view of the
painful picture. There were, even after
the first pangs of separation had subsided, various bitter pangs for the
emigrants themselves and not a few of which must have been painfully suggestive
to the sensitive bystander. With what
ease must a once well-to-do mechanic conveyed all that remained of his former
earthly possessions! And yet how
lingering and faltering his pace! Many
who were known as decent mechanics now met their former associates in some
instances imperfectly clad, whilst others had evidently been the recipients of
temporary assistance to provide against the inclemency of the weather. And thus singly, or in family groups, the
party wended their way to the landing-place from which they were to embark, and
by the side of which lay the stately vessel which was selected to convey them
to their new and far-off home.
With few exceptions the emigrants from Portsmouth were
on board by mid-day and partook of the substantial meal provided for them by
the Government; and the interest was then centered on the approach of the
remaining emigrants who were to embark on board the Crocodile from Woolwich, and were expected to arrive by the side of
the railway jetty in the yard by about one o’clock. The party left Woolwich by about nine
o’clock, and the scene in and near the station is described as being equally
impressive, and if anything, more demonstrative than that which characterized
the earlier separation from friends at Portsmouth. A delay was experienced in the arrival of the
train, and it was not until close upon two that the signal whistle was heard
from the extreme end of the yard near the factory gates… The men, women and children alighted, and a
more pitiable and deplorable sight than was presented by many of them can
scarcely be imagined. The whole, as
those who preceded them, underwent a superficial medical examination, and by
half past three the great majority were on board partaking of the refreshment
which they so much needed, and which, ready dressed, awaited their arrival.
The Crocodile
set sail for Canada the following morning, Tuesday, April 20. The article in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle describes the departure:
…a group of
emigrants being congregated at one end of the second deck in close proximity to
several members of the Portsmouth Relief Committee, the Vicar of Portsmouth
expressed, in the name of the committee the desire to say a few words at
parting… He had been desired by one of
the Emigration Commissioners to advise them to accept, without delay, any work
which presented itself, and it they did that and persevered they would soon get
on, which he (the Vicar), with all earnestness, hoped they might. In a very few moments they would be called
upon to say, “Good-bye!” to Old England; and although they were leaving the
English shores, they should never forget, wherever they might go, that they
were still Englishmen… Englishmen should never forget their duty towards God
and their Sovereign, and if they observed their duties honestly and faithfully,
they might expect God’s blessing to rest upon them. In the name of all who had been working for
them, and in the name of their mother country – England – he said, “Farewell! God bless you. May you have a prosperous voyage, and may
every success attend you.” There was
considerable sobbing among the company as the honest and impressive words of
the Vicar fell from his lips…
…As the final
arrangements were proceeding a slight diversion was afforded by several
bystanders throwing oranges and apples to the people onboard. The amusement thus occasioned, however, was
of brief duration – the sonorous “E-a-s-y” preceded the shrill and sharp
“Lets-go!”, the bows-spring or hawser splashed over the ship’s side, and slowly
and majestically the head of the Crocodile
swerved towards the entrance of the harbor, and for the first time, perhaps,
both those on shore and those on board realised the real trial of a final
separation. From the jetty the cry rose
“Give them a cheer!” but ere the response could be elicited a ringing cheer
proceeded from the men on board, quickly followed by a similar outburst from
the spectators, accompanied by the waving of handkerchiefs. As the Crocodile
proceeded further towards the harbor ringing bursts of cheering proceeded from
either shore and the various vessels passed on the line of route, and the same
degree of enthusiasm was observed until the vessel reached Spithead, where for
a time, she came to an anchor. The Crocodile, however, remained but a short
time at Spithead, and then proceeded direct seaward.
The Crocodile
arrived at Quebec on May 6. The Hansard Record quoted this response to a
question to a question raised in Parliament about dockyard emigrants to Canada:
…about 1,100 persons have been taken in the Crocodile and the Serapis to
Canada during the last two months. They
were selected with very great care from among the workmen who have been
employed for some time either in the dockyard or in the arsenal, and their
conveyance to Canada, although in Her Majesty's troopships, was under the
management of the Emigration Commissioners, and it has been carried out with
complete success. From the Commander of
the Crocodile we have a Report, dated May 7, to this
effect— The emigrants are landed 'all well,' and I have much pleasure in
reporting that from the time they have been on board the Crocodile
their conduct has been everything that could be desired, and no body of men
could have given less trouble. I may here state that the chaplain and surgeon,
with the pay master and other officers, have been unremitting in their zeal and
desire to carry out their Lordships' instructions, and the emigrants have not
been remiss in expressing their gratitude for the kindness shown them.
After arriving in Canada the Paradice
family settled in St. Catharines, Ontario.
St. Catharines is located on the Welland Canal, the shipping lane
between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. The
first Welland Canal had opened in 1829.
In 1870 the wider, deeper second Welland Canal (completed in 1845) was
operating, and a major shipbuilding industry had grown up along its banks. The largest shipbuilder on the Great Lakes in
the 19th Century was Louis Shickluna, whose shipyard was located in
St. Catharines. In the late 1860’s and
1870’s, both Shickluna and his competitor, Melancthon Simpson, were building
ships in St. Catharines. The
opportunities to practice his trade as a shipwright would have attracted George
to the Ontario city.
George went to work
for J.P. Abbey’s shipyard at Port Robinson, which is located on the Welland
Canal about 20 km from St. Catharines.
An article in the St. Catharines
Evening Journal dated April 30, 1874 describes the launching of a new
propeller ship built at Abbey’s shipyard under the supervision of George
Paradice. The 450-ton ship was built at
a cost of about $40,000. Mr. “Paradise”
pronounced the ship “one of the best afloat on the lakes.”
In his association
with the City of St. Catharines,
George had another brush with shipwreck.
On July 12, 1880, after having been rammed by
the American steamer George A. Marsh, the City
of St. Catharines sank in Lake Huron, apparently
with no loss of life. In 1882, the ship was salvaged, refurbished
and renamed the Ortega. George Paradice
had no part in its restoration.
The Paradices began to
live a comfortable life in St. Catharines.
Their son William, who was born after their arrival in Ontario, survived
and grew up, as did Edwin, Francis (called Frank) and Alice. Eventually, the older children married and
moved away, Edwin, his wife Mary Margaret Wismer and their daughters going to
Buffalo, New York, and Frank taking his family to Denver, Colorado. By 1890, the remaining children, Alice, her
husband Harry White, their children, and William, had joined Frank in Denver.
In 1892, George and
Sarah were able to afford a trip back to England, presumably to visit
family. They returned on July 6, 1892,
sailing from Glasgow on the Nebraska. They passed in transit through the Port of
New York, leaving a record of their arrival at Ellis Island.
Their happy life in
St. Catherine’s came to an end with Sarah’s death on June
13, 1894. She was buried in Victoria
Lawn Cemetery in St. Catharines. George
was now alone, far from his family.
However, his adventures were far from ending.
It probably didn’t take much persuasion for
Frank Paradice to convince his father to join the family members residing in
Denver. George moved into a house at 644
South 12th (later Fox) Street.
He hired a housekeeper, or perhaps another family member hired one on
his behalf.
It was the start of a new life. On June 25, 1895, George Paradice married his
housekeeper, Emma (Minnie) Emigholz, at the South Broadway Christian
Church. He also began a new career in
real estate. On the 1900 census George
listed his occupation as “capitalist.”
George lived in Denver with his wife Minnie
for 26 years. He remained near his
children Frank and Alice, although William had left Denver. He no doubt had frequent visits with his
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
George Paradice died of arteriosclerosis
and chronic nephritis on July 7, 1921. He was given a Masonic burial and interred at
Fairmount Cemetery (Lot 78, Block 32) on July 10, 1921.
Minnie lived for fourteen years after
George’s death. Frank Paradice’s
children and grandchildren remained in contact with her. Frank’s granddaughter, Louise Le Bert,
recalled Minnie as a tough woman. She
described a visit to Minnie’s house for a chicken dinner, saying that Minnie
went to the back yard and selected the chicken.
With a hatchet she cut off its head.
Forty years later, Louise vividly recalled the headless chicken running
in circles around the yard.
Minnie (Emigholz) Paradice died in
1935. On October 28, 1935, she was
buried in Fairmount Cemetery beside her husband George.
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