Bruce, His mother was Isabella Colling Dobson b.Q3 1848. It's all on FreeBMD should you wish to work out the family tree which is where I recommend you to start. Filling in the other parts comes later. Rod At 08:01 21/07/2010, Bruce Dodd <bmdodd@rogers.com> wrote: >Hi, Listers > >I have been told that my relative, Albert Joseph Hunter Dodd (b 1882), was >educated at the Sunderland Orphan Asylum which he entered in 1893 or 95, >his widowed mother living at 44 Sea View Cottages, Grangetown, Sunderland. > >He left there on 26 Dec 1896 and went to sea, working at one time on SS >Yongala of the Adelaide Steam Shipping Co. However, he was no longer on >the Yongala when, in 1911, en route from Melbourne to Cairns, she steamed >into a cyclone and sank with no survivors . (It is now, according to >Google, a very popular Scuba-diving site) > >His father was Joseph Hunter Dodd (1846-91). I don't know his mother's name. > >That's all I "know". I cannot say which details of this story are fact >and which are scraps of family legend. > >Can anyone suggest where I might look for more, please? > >Bruce Dodd >Ottawa RSVP. Please support the St.George Foundation: www.adecentlife.org