Sheffield Emigrants

[Ponytail]

Sheffield Emigrants, "Off to Canada"

From Sheffield Daily Independent 15th April 1912.

 

Sheffield Independent Canadian Supplement, 29th April 1912

 

[Ponytail]

Sheffield Emigrants.

They didn't sail with the party featured in the article dated 15th April 1912, Billy Beaumont and Lizzie Land married and set sail for Vancouver shortly afterwards. Billy's brother Syd travelled with them. Joining Walter Land (Lizzie brother) and his new wife Cissie Waddle in Vancouver (emigrated 1910.) Lizzie's elder brother Charlie had already emigrated to Argentina to work for a Railway Company in 1906. 

Postmarked Quebec 28th May 1912. 

Rough crossing lots of iceberg thought they were going the same way as the Titanic

 

Postmarked Vancouver 19th June 1912. 

Brother Syd having to stay at Grosse Island because of his vaccination failure. 

William (Billy) Beaumont new wife Elizabeth (Lizzie) and John Sydney Beaumont on the passenger list. 

The R.M.S. Titanic hit an iceberg and sank 15th April 1912. The R.M.S. Tunisian was part of the inquiry as 10th April 1912 on a voyage eastward from St. Johns, New Brunswick to Liverpool had reported heavy ice in the vicinity of the area where the disaster later occurred. 

 

[Ponytail]

Sheffield Emigrants

Postmarked April 1910

 

Travelling to Vancouver by train through USA. It appears the price of food on the train was expensive. Walter Land attempting to persuade his sister Annie and brother law Will Smith to join him. 

 

Postmarked Vancouver 15th September 1910. "You've got to hustle to beat this."

Not as easy as some Emigrants might have thought. 

Walter married Alice (Cissie) Waddle in Vancouver 25th April 1912. The Land, Beaumont and Waddle families all lived first on Vivian Road, Firth Park and at the same time moved across the road to Firth Park Avenue. All having family members emigrating to Canada for some years before returning to England. 

Wonder how many of the Emigrants in the 15th April 1912 newspaper article, stayed in Canada. 

 

[Athy]

Fascinating research.

That  Thwaites bloke didn't hold jobs down for long, did he? I wonder if he kept upsetting his bosses, or had to keep moving on before the law caught up with him.

[Suzy]

Another side of the migration was the immigration to Sheffield  during this period . My grandfather came to Sheffield from Gent / Belgium as a baker to help in  the war effort to produce bread , as lots of the Sheffield men and youths had enlisted for military service.The meeting of my grandmother / grandfather is another story ,a sad but inspiring  story at that .Would love to know more about how the Belgium bakers came to Sheffield , as I believe grandfather was not the only Belgium baker to do this.

Regards Suzy (Verhamme) grandfathers surname 

 

 

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[Heartshome]

39 minutes ago, Suzy said:

Another side of the migration was the immigration to Sheffield  during this period . My grandfather came to Sheffield from Gent / Belgium as a baker to help in  the war effort to produce bread , as lots of the Sheffield men and youths had enlisted for military service.The meeting of my grandmother / grandfather is another story ,a sad but inspiring  story at that .Would love to know more about how the Belgium bakers came to Sheffield , as I believe grandfather was not the only Belgium baker to do this.

Regards Suzy (Verhamme) grandfathers surname 

 

 

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Hi Suzy. Try looking up  this:-

District War Refugees Committee for Belgians Sheffield 

There are quite a lot of sites come up that might be of interest to you.            Ok Heartshome.

 

 

[Edmund]

The ugly side of the treatment of immigrants is displayed here, with those with only broken English being taken advantage of.  This Belgian baker seems to have been able to stand up for his rights.

[Suzy]

3 hours ago, Edmund said:

The ugly side of the treatment of immigrants is displayed here, with those with only broken English being taken advantage of.  This Belgian baker seems to have been able to stand up for his rights.

 

[Suzy]

6 hours ago, Edmund said:

The ugly side of the treatment of immigrants is displayed here, with those with only broken English being taken advantage of.  This Belgian baker seems to have been able to stand up for his rights.

Thank you You’re a star ⭐️ Edmund 

The baker Cyril Verhamme  is my grandfather , I’ve sent the info to my sister. We’re both thrilled to have another piece of our family history .

It was a marriage of convenience , at the time my grandmother was seeing a young man approx 17 yrs old she became pregnant with their child . He never found out as he signed up for the military WW1 and was killed almost immediately .

The family story is my Grandmother worked at the same bakery as Cyril Verhamme, he vowed he would not let her go into a work house to have the child and would look after her when the child arrived ,she gave birth to a boy,their marriage followed and after 2 yrs of marriage my mum was born . I suppose the need to look for accommodation became priority for him .Luckily they ended up in a house 99 Holme Lane Hillsbro , where Grandma ended her days.

Thank you so much Edmund ⭐️

Regards Suzy 

 

 

 

[Ponytail]

20 hours ago, Ponytail said:

Sheffield Emigrants, "Off to Canada"

From Sheffield Daily Independent 15th April 1912.

 

Sheffield Independent Canadian Supplement, 29th April 1912

 

The Emigrants sailed aboard the S.S. Laurentic, White Star Line. 

21st April, Captain John Matthias wirelessed they'd kept a look out sailing over the Grand Banks where the R.M.S.Titanic had sunk 15th April but saw no wreckage or bodies. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Laurentic_(1908) 

https://www.whitestarhistory.com/laurentic1

Can't imagine how the passengers felt when two days after departure from Liverpool news came the Titanic had sunk after hitting an iceberg and they were going to be sailing the same route.