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Steve and Pauline Jones’ Family History
If you don’t know where you came from, you won’t know where you are going. You have to study your history. Gil Scott-Heron
William Henry Chapple (1844-1924) - family note
William’s daughter Clara Florence Chapple died from Tabes Mesenterica - TB of the lymph glands in the abdomen. This is an illness of children caused by drinking milk from cows infected with TB. Now uncommon as milk is pasteurised. Passenger lists record that Albert George Chapple, age 24, a wiremaker from England, left Liverpool 2/5/1901 aboard RMS Tunisian and arrived on 10/5/1901 into Montreal, Quebec, bound for Ottawa, Ontario. He travelled with his brother William Thomas Chapple, age 32, a bookbinder from England also headed for Ottawa. The Tunisian’s maiden voyage was from Liverpool to Canada in April 1900. It transferred to Canadian Pacific Line during World War 2. Renamed Marburn in 1922, it was scrapped in 1928. Her sister ship was The Bavarian.
RMS Tunisian
Steve & Pauline Jones’ Family History
If you don’t know where you came from,you won’t know where you are going.You have to study your history. Gil Scott-Heron
© S M Jones Content is free for most uses - see legal stuff. Last update 3 Jun 2020
William Henry Chapple (1844-1924) - family note
William’s daughter Clara Florence Chapple died from Tabes Mesenterica - TB of the lymph glands in the abdomen. This is an illness of children caused by drinking milk from cows infected with TB. Now uncommon as milk is pasteurised. Passenger lists record that Albert George Chapple, age 24, a wiremaker from England, left Liverpool 2/5/1901 aboard RMS Tunisian and arrived on 10/5/1901 into Montreal, Quebec, bound for Ottawa, Ontario. He travelled with his brother William Thomas Chapple, age 32, a bookbinder from England also headed for Ottawa. The Tunisian’s maiden voyage was from Liverpool to Canada in April 1900. It transferred to Canadian Pacific Line during World War 2. Renamed Marburn in 1922, it was scrapped in 1928. Her sister ship was The Bavarian.
RMS Tunisian