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Note: Emigrated with Margaret, George and Bessie to Canada on SS Southwark from Liverpool UK to Montreal, Canada leaving the UK on 28th April 1904.
By 1910 they were Canadian Citizens and they returned to the UK for just over a month travelling to Liverpool on the SS Campania and arriving 13th July 1910.
They then returned to Canada via New York on the SS Mauritania leaving Liverpool on 20th August 1910, arriving in New York on 25th August 1910 and arriving in Canada on 27th August 1910.
Passenger lists for all journeys are attached.
SS Southwark was a Passenger Steam Ship built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton.It was launched 4th July 1883 and went to the Red Star Line in 1895. It was chartered to the Dominion Line in 1903 and scrapped 18th June 1912.
SS Campania was a Passenger Steam Ship launched 8th September 1892 and owned by the Cunard Company. In 1893 it held the Blue Riband and during the war in 1914 it was converted at Cammel Laird shipyard to a seaplane carrier. On 5th November 1918 it dragged it's cables during a gale in the Firth of Forth and drifted across the bows of the battleshi "Revenge" and sank.
SS Mauretania (also called RMS Mauretania as it carried mail) was an ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend , Tyne and Wear for the Cunard Line and launched on 20 September 1906. At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. After capturing the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1907 inaugural season, Mauretania held the speed record for twenty-two years.
RESIDENCES:
CENSUS 1871 living at Corner Cottage, Dolphin Lane, Cuckfield, Sussex, England
CENSUS 1881 living at Yew Tree Cottage, Cuckfield, Sussex, England
CENSUS 1911 shows the family living at Sandus St., Huron, Ontario, Canada
CENSUS 1921 shows the family living at 49 Kains Street, St Thomas, Ontario, Canada
In 1954 according to the newspaper report about his son George being killed, William lived at 15 Hill Street, St.Thomas, Ontario
William was a member of the Salvation Army.
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