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Note: Emigrated with Parents 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.
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
George served during the First World War in the Canadian Legion and joined the 91st Battalion at the age of about 15. He joined as a bugler and went overseas with them remaining in England until he was 18. He then went to France for just three days before the armistice was signed.
In 1940 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers as a sapper and served four years overseas from 1941 until the end of the Second World War.
He was killed under the wheels of a freight train in the east end of the St.Thomas yards in the afternoon of 9th March 1954.
He was in the Salvation Army and was a member of the Mocha Temple Band in Ontario.
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