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From: "gsmith" <>
Subject: Re: William Ward - SS Tunisian Sept/Oct 1900
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:40:02 -0400
References: <BAY22-F38MjT3XOYR0000014427@hotmail.com>


If no group was identified, or no one identified as being in charge,
sometimes the best clue is the destination.
What is their destination, and is it the same for all of the children?

Gail Smith
A chilly U.P. of Michigan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenny B" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 8:23 PM
Subject: William Ward - SS Tunisian Sept/Oct 1900


> Hi Everyone,
>
> Thanks to everyone who has written in response to my query re William
Ward.
>
> Today I visited my public library to look at the ship's passenger list
> (T-479) for the SS Tunisian Sept/Oct 1900 from Liverpool to Quebec and
> managed to find him there with a good number of other children. There
were
> 673 adults, 313 children between 1-14, and 16 infants not over 1. Of the
> passengers listed 173 had cabins the rest (829) were steerage.
>
> However, I couldn't see anything to tell me if this was a Barnardos group
or
> not. I went back and forth over the pages several times but to no avail.
I
> couldn't even figure out who the children were being supervised by
although
> they did seem to be divided up separately into groups of girls and boys.
>
> The following was written one first of the pages listing the children
> "depart 893 885" but don't know if this has any significance.
>
> Is there any way to determine who these children were with?
>
>
> Regards,
> Jenny B
>
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