Chris, That Philip Dickinson was aged 58 and travelling with Esther Dickinson. I found your Basil Dickinson travelling on board the New York in 1936. I found this on the Ellis Island website. He was travelling with Ina Frances Dickinson. I then looked again and found him on the Queen Elizabeth aged 30. First Name : Basil Last Name : Dickinson Place of Birth : Britain Date of Arrival : 1946 Age at Arrival : 30 Gender : Male Ship of Travel : Queen Elizabeth Manifest Line Number : 13 I hope this helps. Regards, Pauline Newell > On 13 Jan 2015, at 1:03 am, Chris Dickinson via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All > > Back in 2008, I asked about my grandmother's transatlantic journeys and received some wonderfully informative replies. > > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/genbrit/2008-03/1206737483 > > > I don't have the relevent subscriptions to pursue my next enquiry (though, of course I could go down to the local library). As maybe the problem is interesting, I'm going to try here first to see whether anyone wants to do some look ups. > > My late father, Basil Philip Harriman Dickinson, was in the fast track of the Civil Service in the 1940s. In 1946 he travelled with his minister, Alfred Barnes (Minister of Transport), to New York. My understanding is that this was something to do with the United Nations - Wiki comments: > > |Prior to the construction of the current complex, the UN was headquartered at a temporary location at the Sperry Corporation's offices in Lake Success, New York, an eastern suburb of the city in Nassau County on Long Island, from 1946 to 1952.[15] The Security Council also held sessions on what was then the Bronx campus of Hunter College (now the site of Lehman College) from March to August 1946| > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations > > His main story about the trip was to do with Molotov. I've already recited this in the earlier thread: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/genbrit/2008-04/1207174245 > > I hadn't thought about this since, but happened to be reminded today and did some index searching. Molotov is there: > > http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/united-kingdom-records-in-travel-and-migration?lastname=molotov > > though his given name is provided as 'VIRCHESLAN' rather than 'Vyacheslav'. > > There are two Alfred Barnes' in the index for a 1946 New York voyage: Alfred H Barnes (born 1895) and Alfred R Barnes (born 1916). > > http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/united-kingdom-records-in-travel-and-migration?firstname=alfred%20&firstname_variants=true&lastname=barnes&eventyear=1946&eventyear_offset=0 > > Wiki gives the minister's name as Alfred John Barnes, born 1887. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Barnes_(Labour_politician) > > There is no entry for my father under his first name, Basil, but there seems to be under his second, Philip. > > http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/united-kingdom-records-in-travel-and-migration?firstname=philip&firstname_variants=true&lastname=dickinson&eventyear=1946&eventyear_offset=0 > > A problem is that he is stated as born in 1888, whereas he was born in 1916. Just the date given for Alfred R Barnes above. > > So it looks pretty obvious that the birth dates have been transposed between my father and his minister. It would be nice to see, though, whether this is a fault of the index, or of the original manifest. Anyone care to check? > > Thanks > Chris > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >