This is the best info I have on SOPHIE HODGES (first name spelled Sophia on ship's passenger list & Ellis Island records. Family children always referred to her as Aunt Sophie.
Port of Departure: Londonderry, Dec. 25, 1904
Ship: S.S. Furnessia
Port of Entry: Ellis Island, Port of New York, Jan. 5, 1905
Age on ship's records: 19 years (estimated year of birth, 1885)
Last Residence listed on Ship's record: Dublin
Occupation: servant (In 1901 census she may have resided in someone else's home.)
Final Destination to be: New Orleans, LA, her mother's home
Passage paid by her mother: Mrs. Louis Brandt (Johanna Carroll Hodges Brandt). This was her first trip to U.S.
She married Albert Orduna a native of Vera Cruz, Mexico, and had 3 children. She was widowed and died circa the 1940's in New Orleans, I believe.
JOHANNA CARROLL HODGES: Her obituary gives in following:
Died on April 16, 1932 at the age of 70 in New Orleans. Based on this I assume her date of birth to be between 1861 and 1863. Her age in the 1920 U.S. census is given as 57 with an immigration date of 1914. But I do not think the date of immigration can be right due to her marriage record to Louis Brandt in 1902.. We are uncertain of the date of her arrival in the U.S., but we think she may be the Johanna Hodges who arrived in New Orleans on Sept. 2, 1891. She did remarry. There's a record of her marriage to Louis Brandt on Sept. 24, 1902. This Johanna Hodges alsoshe sailed on the Furnessia and her familiarity with this ship may have been the reason she booked passage for her daughter on the same ship. She may have entered the country through Castle Garden (New York) and then traveled on to New Orleans. We do not know what she did between her arrival and her marriage to Louis Brandt. We do not believe she worked outside the home after marrying Louis Brandt. He owned a business in the city and they lived very comfortably in a very nice part of town. Sylvia found another Johanna Carroll entry, leaving us to wonder if she made more than one trip to U.S.
SAMUEL NEVIN hODGES: We are not certain of his exact year of immgration. We have seen 1910 and 1916. Since he was a marinere and we know that he sailed for the United Fruit Company during the WWI he no doubt sailed in and out of the Port of New Orleans on more than one oaccasion. He married Margaret Anne McCann from Enniskillen, Ireland in New Orleans on Nov. 20, 1916. We think she may have been the Margaret Anne McCann who traveled to New Orleans in March 13, 1916 to marry him. I believe they were acquainted in Ireland. And I think she may have sailed out of the Cork area.We are in early stages of researching her family. We know she had a brother Jack. Samuel Nevin became a naturalized citizen on June 20, 1922 in New Orleans.
Samuel and Margaret had 3 sons, Louis Nevin (Sylvia's father), Samuel F., and Patrick (Shirley's father). Margaret died in childbirth on September, 1922, giving birth to another son Robert, who also died.
Please forgive the long response to your questions. Hope this helps.
Shirley
