Chris Dickinson wrote: > Odd too, that, he was last in New York in 1936. One of his stories was that he had to leave ship (the 'New York') for family reasons when it stopped off at Biarritz. I suppose that he would still have been on the passenger list though, and maybe thus 'officially' arrived in New York. > > So annoying that I didn't pursue this while my father was still alive. Chris: I see no indication that he (listed as Basil P.H. Dickinson)did not arrive in NYC in 1936. He and his mother were on their way to Bermuda. And she really must have liked Bermuda because there are more than 4/5 trips thru NYC and staying at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in 1935/36. Where did she get the scars on her left hand? [email protected]

On Monday, 12 January 2015 19:00:49 UTC, ecunningham wrote: > Chris Dickinson wrote: > > > Odd too, that, he was last in New York in 1936. One of his stories was that he had to leave ship (the 'New York') for family reasons when it stopped off at Biarritz. I suppose that he would still have been on the passenger list though, and maybe thus 'officially' arrived in New York. > > > > So annoying that I didn't pursue this while my father was still alive. > > Chris: I see no indication that he (listed as Basil P.H. Dickinson)did > not arrive in NYC in 1936. He and his mother were on their way to > Bermuda. And she really must have liked Bermuda because there are more > than 4/5 trips thru NYC and staying at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in > 1935/36. Where did she get the scars on her left hand? Thank you for that. You were very helpful in 2008. Hmm, I've been thinking about this. It may be that I have conflated two journeys. My grandparents marriage broke up in the 1930s when my father was a teenager (my grandfather's fault - he was having an affair with the cook). By 1935, my grandmother was starting a relationship with a very rich American, hence the frequent trips to Bermuda and the Bahamas. In 1936 (or later), tensions boiled over between my grandparents - my grandfather sent a telegram to Ina while their ship was at Biarritz, inventing a family cris, in order to prevent her affair developing, and she hurried off board with Basil. I know that this was 1936 (or later) because my father was watching German planes bombing Spain when the telegram arrived. Guernica didn't happen till 1937, however, and was one of the first bombings, so a date later than 1936 would make sense. In any case, I was originally under the impression that the liner was German. So it may be that the 1936 journey on the 'New York' had already happened, and the terminated trip was on the German liner sometime 1937-9. That makes a lot more sense, now that I think of it. I wasn't aware that my grandmother had scars on her left hand (she died when I was only 7) - but maybe that happened when she threw a very large glass bowl at her husband through a window :-) Chris