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by Lorine McGinnis Schulze
Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret. Can she solve the mysteries of the past and the present before disaster strikes? Available now on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
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On June 6, 1914, my grandmother, Rose Lily Colsell, aged 17, embarked
upon the U.S. Mail Steamer, “New York,” of the American Line leaving
from Southampton to New York via Cherbourg. For her, this was to be a
summer trip with her employers back to their home in Washington State.
He was Mr. Ben Allen, the American Ambassador to Great Britain. My
grandmother was Nanny to the family’s two young sons. By the end of the
summer, Ben Allen was told that war appeared eminent in Europe and that
he was not to return. Although, my grandmother was only in this country
on a temporary visa as an employee to this diplomatic family, it was
decided that she would be safer remaining with them in the United
States.
They took up residence at the family’s summer home in Woodland,
California. Later my grandmother took a job working in the Tuberculosis
Sanitorium there. In 1918, she met and married my grandfather. All of
her brothers were lost in the Great War and her only sister left an
abusive husband and disappeared, never to be heard from again. My
grandmother never returned to Great Britain. She kept, and so have I, a
copy of the List of Passengers leaflet. My grandmother is merely listed
as maid.
American Line United States Mail Steamer New York
From SOUTHAMPTON and CHERBOURG to NEW YORK
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1914
CREW
CAPTAIN W.J. ROBERTS
PURSER, R.R. MATTHEWS
SURGEON, WILLIAM STUMP
ASST. PURSER, H.H. MCNEALE
CHIEF STEWARD, J.FARRELL
Aberman, Mr. David
Allen, Miss Maude
Allen, Mr. Ben S.
Allen, Mrs. And Maid
Allen, Master Shannon
Allen, Mr. John F.
Baker, Mr. John
Baker, Mrs.
Barrat, Mrs.
Barsa, Miss S.
Beaumont, Mrs. Marguerite
Bergin, Mr. Julius L.
Biggs, Mrs. Daisy
Biggs, Miss Gladys
Black, Mr. C.
Black, Mrs.
Bowen, Mr. David R.
Bowen, Mr. William
Bowker, Mr. F.W.
Bowker, Mrs.
Brinton, Miss Sarah
Brown, Mrs. H.B.
Brown, Mrs. Estelle
Brown, Master William C.
Buck, Miss Evelyn
Buck, Miss Winifred
Burrows, Mr. William
Bush, Mr. Thomas A.
Cano, Mr. J.M.
Carncross, Miss Flora M.
Carteret, Mr. George
Clark, Rev. Francis E.
Cook, Mr. John E.
Cohen, Mrs. Meyer
Coleman, Mrs. Fanny L.
Coleman, Miss Doreen
Coleman, Master Eric
Dann, Miss Charlotte M.
Davies, Mr. Thomas
Derrom, Miss J.L.
Dinsmore, Miss Annie
Ely, Miss Anna
Emslie, Mr. Allan G.
Engle, Mrs. F.
Fox, Mr. W.L.
Fox, Miss E.R.
Field, Mr. Edward S.
French, Mrs. Rose M.
Gandson, Mrs. Marina
Gandson, Miss Victoria D.
Gibbs, Mr. A.F.
Grant, Mr. William
Gyde, Miss Isabel
Hamilton, Mr. Presley A.
Hendry, Mrs. M. Winter
Henry, Mr. A.F.
Henry, Mrs.
Hinton, Mrs. Emma
Hinton, Master Arthur
Hoppe, Mr. Gay
Hoppe, Mrs. Adele
Howell, Mr. Roy
Howell, Mrs. Ruland
Hurcum, Miss Josephine M.
Iorio, Mr. Fortunate
Iorio, Miss Bertha
Iorio, Miss Irene
Janny, Mr. J. Elliott
Jelbert, Miss Eliza A.
Jolley, Mr. Fred
Jolley, Mrs. Mary E.
Jones, Mrs. C.C.
Kelly, Mr. Peter
Kelly, Mrs.
Kerbey, Mr. H.
Kerbey, Mrs.
Kevern, Mr. John
Lane, Mrs. Elmer B.
Langdana, Mrs. Aima
Langdana, Master N.
Lee, Miss Alice
Levin, Mr. Erik
McClenahan, Mr. W.
McCoole, Miss K.
Martin, Mr. C.J.
Martin, Mrs.
Matthews, Mr. P.B.
Miller, Miss Nellie
Miller, Mr. Arthur S.
Minsky, Mrs. Fanny
Moore, Mr. Henry B.
Moore, Mrs.
Muir, Miss Winifred
Nilsen, Mr. T.T.
Patterson, Mrs. Dora
Parker, Mr. Roswell C.
Parker, Mrs. Marjorie E.
Parotik, Mrs. Scheine I.
Perry, Miss Frances
Philpott, Miss L.M.
Philpott, Mr.A.J.
Pinkham, Mr. W.C.H.
Pinkham, Mr. V.E.
Rice, Miss E.V.
Richards, Mrs. Ada G.
Ridyard, Mrs. Mary
Rogers, Miss W.M.
Rosenberg, Mr. Earl
Rosenberg, Mrs. Blanche
Rosenberg, Miss Flan
Rowe, Mrs. Thomazine
Sage, Mr. Harry W.
Seaborne, Mr. Charles
Siefert, Mrs. Caroline
Sleap, Mr. Chas. Wm.
Smith, Mr. Bernard E.
Spenser, Miss G.
Spenser, Miss S.
Stansfield, Miss
Stephan, Mr. W. Ray
Stewart, Miss Agnes
Straties, Mr. Gust
Tevis, Mrs. S.S.
Theothoropoulos, Mr. Dimitrios
Theothoropoulos, Mrs. Vassiliki
Theothoropoulos, Master Antonios
Thompson, Rev. E.A.
Thompson, Mrs.
Thompson, Mr. Jas. H.
Tutton, Mr. Isaac
Warren, Miss Ethel
Whatford, Miss Ivy
Wise, Mrs. Mary A.
Wilson, Mr. Frederick
Wilkinson, Mrs. Anna
Woodburn, Dr. W.E.
Woodburn, Mrs.
ORCHESTRA Mr. G. Payne
Mr. H. Wright
Mr. A. Dockrey
Mr. A.O. Angel
Mr. Watson
SEA POST OFFICE CLERKS British: Mr. Robert J. Robson
Mr. Fred G. Sawyer
American: Mr. James T. Davis
Mr. James E. Parks
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