Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Tunisian

Subject: 1909 SS TUNISIAN LIVERPOOL TO QUEBEC -
Unaccompanied British Home Children Only

Based on the sailing of 1909, families with children are apparently shown together and BHC's (British Home Children) as Unaccompanied Children.

The Tunisian seemed to be the primary carrier of British Home Children making as many as 8 to 10 trips per year.

There are 116 children with three crossed out, they are:
Rosie MARSH, female , 12+ 
Tim BRANNONT, male, 12+  
S J JOHNSON, male, 12+ replaced with different people. 

Information only show Contract Ticket
Number, Name, adult 12+ and children 1 to 12. No country of origin.  All
departed at Quebec.

The following are under Adult 12+:

CT#13324: 
BERRY, Richard; 
HORTIS, Alfred; 
ROCKE, Hbt.; 
FASANT, Mj. S.;
REEVES, Joseph; 
LEALESS, Robt.; 
SWEENEY, Harold; 
HARTLEY, Wm.;

CT#13325: 
BERRIE, Jas. J.; 
ROBERTS, Oliver; 
ROGERS, Horace; 
HALL, George;
McCARTHIE, Bertie; 
HENDRY, David; 
SMITH, Harry; 
GREEN, Alfred.

The following are all males aged 12+:

CT#13326:
ASKFELD, Wm,; 
ARLIN, Thomas; 
LANDERS/SANDERS, Albert; 
BROWN, Fred;
HILLER, Wm.;
HOPSON, George; 
REEVES, Albert; 
PITSON, James.

CT#13327: 
BRYANT, Henry; 
BHAND/CHAND, Horace; 
YASMANT, James; 
JONES, George A.;
BEATTIE, James; 
COLLINS, Ernest; 
THOMPSON, Edward; 
CONWAY, Thomas.

CT#13328: 
ELSTON, Henry; 
PEARSON, Albert; 
MILLIKEN, James; 
McCANDLESS, Joseph;
THUNDER, Edwin; 
FERGUSON, Chas.; 
OLDFIELD, Neville; 
DOUGLAS, John.

The following are females Adults 12+ and Children 1 to 12.  Will show age
after name.

CT#13332: 
MARSH, Beatrice, 12+; 
ROCKE, Gladys, 12+; 
PUDDLE, Mary, 12+;
MOONEY, Eva, 12+; 
REDDY, Mary, 12+; 
RILEY, Elsie, 12+; 
SANGER, Eliza, 12+;
FLETCHER, Jessie, 12+.

CT#13333: 
BERRY, Rose L., age 15; 
BOOKE, Elizabeth, 12+; 
FUNNEL, Alice, 12+; 
GRAYSON, Edith, 12+; 
PADMORE, Mary A., 12+; 
REEVES, Esther, 12+;
REYNOLDS, Rovena, 12+.

Following only show Initial.

CT#13334: 
PHILIPS, M, 12+; 
FLETCHER, F., 12+; 
BEATTIE, E., 12+; 
BOWLING, F., 12+; 
PHILLIPS, M, 12+;  
MEIKLE, F., 12 & under; 
PALMER, S., 12 & under.

The next are all 12 and under:

CT#13335: 
STILLAND, E.; 
SAUNDERS, D.; 
WESTBROOK, Daisy; 
CLARK, Elizabeth;
REYNOLDS, Amy; 
WELLS, Maud; 
PHILLIPS, Winifred; 
BURY, Catherine.

Next males 12+ and 12 and under.
As mentioned Earlier, ALL CHILDREN OFF AT QUEBEC.

CT#13337: 
WRIGHT, John, 12+; 
GOODMAN, Alfred, 12 & under; 
OWENS, John, 12 & under;
OWENS, Edward, 12 & under; 
SEERS, Arthur, 12+; 
BEASKEY, Thos., 12+;
BEASLEY, John, 12+; 
SULLIVAN, Michl, 12+.

CT#13338: 
ALLEN, Edward, 12+; 
BARRETT, Patk, 12+, 
BARRETT, Patk, 12+
[shown as 2 people]; 
GODFREY, Fred, 12+; 
TYMAN, Joseph, 12 & under; 
HOLLOWAY, Herbert, 12+;
NICOLS, Henry, 12+; 
DONOGHUE, Denis, 12 & under.

CT#13339: 
TREE, Wm. H., 12 & under; 
MILLER, W.B., 12 & under; 
MILLER, T., 12+; 
HIGGINS, P., 12 & under; 
HUNSLEY, H., 12+; 
REGAN, M., 12+; 
OWENS, T., 12+;
MOORE, F., 12+;

CT#13340:  
HALEY, Patrick, 12+; 
STANNEY, Patrick, 12 & under; 
WHITE, Geo. T., 12+;
HYDES, Abr, 12+.


Notes of Contributor Patricia Corney	

Rose Lucy Eleanor BERRY, died, age 25 in 1918 at Port Dalhousie, Ont.,
Canada during the flu epidemic. She married Frank EBERHARDT in Oct. 1913
leaving one son [still living],Frank Eberhardt died in 1935.	

On the 1909 Voyage
My grandmother, Elsie Eliza Andrina BERRY was born 13 Dec 1894 in Chelsea,
London England.  She was sent from the Fulham Union in 1909 to Quebec and
subsequently to Annie MacPhersons home in Stratford, Ont., Canada.

Elsie married 2 Aug 1913 to Edward Albert Corney b 15 Jan 1892 in Brooklyn,
N Y. My father, Edward Lawrence Corney was born in St. Catharines, Ont.
Canada, 9 Apr 1914.

Elsie Died in May 1945 in her 50th year at Newburgh, New York and is buried
in the CORNEY plot at Woodlawn Cemetery at New Windsor, New York with Edward
Albert CORNEY[1947], Edward Lawrence CORNEY[20 Apr 1999] and Agnes May
Fullerton CORNEY [19 Apr 1980].
						

Contributed by Patricia Corney, for the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 27 November 2000

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