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KIDDIES WHO CROSSED OCEAN ALONE

[Welland Telegraph, 19 April 1912]

Patrick Carroll, aged six, and Frederick Henry Carroll, aged four, who have just come across the Atlantic , unaccompanied, and have started for Calgary with their father, who met them at St. John’s N.B. They were put on board the Lake Manitoba, on the other side with their directions sewn to the linings of their overcoats.

*There was a photograph in the newspaper but in very bad condition. The ship is reported to have arrived on 29 March 1912 from Liverpool England.

  1. On 22 January 2014, RP Said,

    Two weeks before the Titanic sank.

  2. On 12 February 2014, B Said,

    Thank you RP for viewing our site and I didn’t connect the timeline when the children crossed the ocean. Someone was certainly watching out for them.

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