Good morning Marj and Listers, I would love a copy of the write up Marj, that would be great. I with to thank Marj and everyone else on the List who have so kindly responded to my enquiry regarding the "Demosthenes" with great information about the ship, the Captain, the crew she carried and also about the Hudson family. I suppose we will never discover why Barbara Irene Hudson's age was give as 9 months, when in fact she was 15 months old when the ship sailed from England on 1st Sept 1911 and 17 months old when the family disembarked in Brisbane on 23rd October 1911, once on board no one would check out a child's age, with the ship carrying so many passengers. One suggestion was that a child under one would have travelled free and maybe the family was short of funds at the time. Another was that the Barbara born in 1910 may have died and a second daughter was born and given the same name. However, there was not enough time for Jessie to have another child and also my friend Pat, who I am helping to research her family, has her mother's birth certificate and she was definitely born on 15th May 1910. Once again thank you for such great information, this is a very helpful List and some Listers went to a great deal of time and trouble, especially Sue. Regards, Janice Belrose - Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marj Kohli" <marj@uwaterloo.ca> To: "Sue Swiggum" <swig@ns.sympatico.ca>; "Janice Doughty" <adoughty01@optusnet.com.au>; <THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [TSL] "Demosthenes" Austrlaia 1911? > Hi Janice, > > London Times has an item March 8, 1911 about the launches and trial trips > of the Demosthenes. Her first sailing was in an ad of June 9, and she was > due to sail Aug 31. On Aug 18, the Times reported she was "lying in the > royal Albert Docks preparatory to her departure for South Africa and > Australia on the 31st of this month." She was 11,300 tons with a > displacement of 20,000 tons. It says she would make the trip to Australia > in 40 days and carry 100 first, 1,200 third-class passengers. This was > some fancy ship. If you would like the write up let me know. > > Regards.. > > Marj >

Hi Just one thought on the date of birth, I found someone else with my grandmother in their tree and the date of birth they had was about 5 months out and had her born in 1911 and not December 13th 1910 which I knew to be true. Turns out her birth was not registered until May 1911, so the person researching my Grandmother had taken this as her date of birth. Maybe its a similar thing and the 9 months on the ships manifest is based on when her birth was registered rather than her actual birth. Vicki > From: adoughty01@optusnet.com.au > To: swig@ns.sympatico.ca; THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com; marj@uwaterloo.ca > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:52:50 +1000 > Subject: Re: [TSL] "Demosthenes" Austrlaia 1911? > > Good morning Marj and Listers, > > I would love a copy of the write up Marj, that would be great. > > I with to thank Marj and everyone else on the List who have so kindly > responded to my enquiry regarding the "Demosthenes" with great information > about the ship, the Captain, the crew she carried and also about the Hudson > family. > > I suppose we will never discover why Barbara Irene Hudson's age was give as > 9 months, when in fact she was 15 months old when the ship sailed from > England on 1st Sept 1911 and 17 months old when the family disembarked in > Brisbane on 23rd October 1911, once on board no one would check out a > child's age, with the ship carrying so many passengers. > > One suggestion was that a child under one would have travelled free and > maybe the family was short of funds at the time. Another was that the > Barbara born in 1910 may have died and a second daughter was born and given > the same name. However, there was not enough time for Jessie to have > another child and also my friend Pat, who I am helping to research her > family, has her mother's birth certificate and she was definitely born on > 15th May 1910. > > Once again thank you for such great information, this is a very helpful List > and some Listers went to a great deal of time and trouble, especially Sue. > > Regards, > Janice > Belrose - Sydney > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marj Kohli" <marj@uwaterloo.ca> > To: "Sue Swiggum" <swig@ns.sympatico.ca>; "Janice Doughty" > <adoughty01@optusnet.com.au>; <THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:57 AM > Subject: Re: [TSL] "Demosthenes" Austrlaia 1911? > > > > Hi Janice, > > > > London Times has an item March 8, 1911 about the launches and trial trips > > of the Demosthenes. Her first sailing was in an ad of June 9, and she was > > due to sail Aug 31. On Aug 18, the Times reported she was "lying in the > > royal Albert Docks preparatory to her departure for South Africa and > > Australia on the 31st of this month." She was 11,300 tons with a > > displacement of 20,000 tons. It says she would make the trip to Australia > > in 40 days and carry 100 first, 1,200 third-class passengers. This was > > some fancy ship. If you would like the write up let me know. > > > > Regards.. > > > > Marj > > > > > ------------------------------- > visit TheShipsList Website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to THESHIPSLIST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now