In 1906 Art Bagnall and his family took a trip to the UK,
apparently to get the children baptized. They returned to the United States
aboard the SS Campania which docked in New York on the 19th of May.
Art and his family were, however, originally booked to travel on the SS Caronia
which arrived in New York a day earlier. The Bagnall family show up on the
manifests for both ships and it is the ship which the family did not travel on
that has an interesting passenger. On board the SS Caronia are three passengers
who gave their last place of residence as Sunderland:
Gerald F Garbett single aged 27
George E Dixon married aged 36
Wm H Thompson single aged 27
A William Harvey Thompson was witness to the marriage of Art’s
half-brother, Thomas Higginson, in 1899. Is this just a sheer coincidence?
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