Genealogy Chat

thank you for all of your information.
Lilly Rosella French was my husbands
great Aunt that is how It all got started.
I have looked at the tree on Ancestry but as often happens people do not answer.
Once again thank you
Margaret

(Outgoing Passenger)

Name: Oscar LOWDEN
Date of departure: 7 March 1907
Port of departure: Liverpool
Passenger destination port: Portland, USA
Passenger destination: Portland, USA
Date of Birth: 1894 (calculated from age)
Age: 13
Marital status: Single
Sex: Male
Occupation: Farm-Hand
Passenger recorded on: Page 22 of 27
Ship:
Official Number:
Master's name:
Steamship Line:
Where bound:
Square feet:
Registered tonnage:
Passengers on voyage:
CANADA
R O Jones
Dominion Line
Portland, USA
23996
6016
1420

Chris :)

I have just edited my post of Oct 30, ca 5:00 am


I had neglected to add the information showing where Oscar Loudon was living on the 1911 Census

Here is the complete information .............


1911 Canada Census

Gunnurson Robt M Head M Jun 1880 30 1901
Gunnurson Martha F Wife M Jun 1876 34 1901
Gunnurson Daurine F Daughter S Sep 1907 3 1901
Gunnurson George M Son S Jun 1910 11/12 1901
Louden Oscar M Servant S Jan 1894 17 1901


1911 / Ontario / Simcoe South / 16 Tecumseth /





sylvia

Lily Lowden married John Augustus Rodgers who was Jamaican. As far as I know he had been married to another woman in the Liverpool area who later died. For some reason he abandoned Lily and little Oscar and moved from Pontefract to Devon where he established another family with Susan Bessie Jarvis.
I am the granddaughter of JA Rodgers and my father was half sibling of Oscar Lowden. Oscar was registered as Rodgers but renounced that surname because his father left him and his mum. He used his mother's maiden name of Lowden.
Oscar and Lily established a family in Canada and I am in contact with his grandchildren.
I live in London UK.

Welcome to the boards Liz. Unfortunately this thread is over a year old.

Although Margaret used to be a regular poster, she hasn't been seen for some while. The best thing may be for you to send her a private message (PM) and hope that she is still using the same registered email address.

An article in the Chelmsford Chronicle of 29 June 1894 describes how John August Rodgers suffered verbal abuse whilst travelling on a train from Liverpool St to Romford. His abusers were two soldiers.

He was stated to be a coloured Primitive Methodist evangelist, well known in Essex towns.

(Abandoning his family doesn't quite sit right with that, just shows)

I see he's listed as married on the 1891 - was that to the Liverpool lady?

Might his first marriage have actually been in Sheffield?

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Mar 1884
Rodgers John Augustus Sheffield 9c 554
Shirtcliff William Richmond Sheffield 9c 554
TEMPLE Martha Scholey Sheffield 9c 554
Thornhill Elizabeth Sheffield 9c 554

(I've deleted a man who shouldn't have been there as his page number was mistranscribed)

William R Shirtcliff is with a Martha S in 1891 so presume the pairing of John A and Elizabeth.