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Re: [TSL] "Demosthenes" Austrlaia 1911?
vicki evans <vickievans909@hotmail.com> on 07/18/2010

Hi

 

Just one thought on the date of birth, I found someone else with my grandmother in their tree and the date of birth they had was about 5 months out and had her born in 1911 and not December 13th 1910 which I knew to be true.  Turns out her birth was not registered until May 1911, so the person researching my Grandmother had taken this as her date of birth.  Maybe its a similar thing and the 9 months on the ships manifest is based on when her birth was registered rather than her actual birth.

 

Vicki
 
> From: adoughty01@optusnet.com.au
> To: swig@ns.sympatico.ca; THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com; marj@uwaterloo.ca
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:52:50 +1000
> Subject: Re: [TSL] "Demosthenes" Austrlaia 1911?
> 
> Good morning Marj and Listers,
> 
> I would love a copy of the write up Marj, that would be great.
> 
> I with to thank Marj and everyone else on the List who have so kindly 
> responded to my enquiry regarding the "Demosthenes" with great information 
> about the ship, the Captain, the crew she carried and also about the Hudson 
> family.
> 
> I suppose we will never discover why Barbara Irene Hudson's age was give as 
> 9 months, when in fact she was 15 months old when the ship sailed from 
> England on 1st Sept 1911 and 17 months old when the family disembarked in 
> Brisbane on 23rd October 1911, once on board no one would check out a 
> child's age, with the ship carrying so many passengers.
> 
> One suggestion was that a child under one would have travelled free and 
> maybe the family was short of funds at the time. Another was that the 
> Barbara born in 1910 may have died and a second daughter was born and given 
> the same name. However, there was not enough time for Jessie to have 
> another child and also my friend Pat, who I am helping to research her 
> family, has her mother's birth certificate and she was definitely born on 
> 15th May 1910.
> 
> Once again thank you for such great information, this is a very helpful List 
> and some Listers went to a great deal of time and trouble, especially Sue.
> 
> Regards,
> Janice
> Belrose - Sydney
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marj Kohli" <marj@uwaterloo.ca>
> To: "Sue Swiggum" <swig@ns.sympatico.ca>; "Janice Doughty" 
> <adoughty01@optusnet.com.au>; <THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [TSL] "Demosthenes" Austrlaia 1911?
> 
> 
> > Hi Janice,
> >
> > London Times has an item March 8, 1911 about the launches and trial trips 
> > of the Demosthenes. Her first sailing was in an ad of June 9, and she was 
> > due to sail Aug 31. On Aug 18, the Times reported she was "lying in the 
> > royal Albert Docks preparatory to her departure for South Africa and 
> > Australia on the 31st of this month." She was 11,300 tons with a 
> > displacement of 20,000 tons. It says she would make the trip to Australia 
> > in 40 days and carry 100 first, 1,200 third-class passengers. This was 
> > some fancy ship. If you would like the write up let me know.
> >
> > Regards..
> >
> > Marj
> >
> 
> 
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