trying to find info on Rodney Edwin VOWLES

[Ladyhawk]

Just to make sure I am reading this right was she in Sydney or did the boat come from Sydney stop in Rhodesia Zimbabwe and go onto London England.

Ports of Voyage   Durban; Cape Town; Las Palmas; Melbourne; Sydney; Adelaide

edit and year 1931

Ports of Voyage   East London; Port Elizabeth [Algoa Bay]; Cape Town; Madeira

[Ladyhawk]

Here's the links if you have access to Anc*y -  her age was transcribed as 34 but document clearly shows age 24

Year 1924 http://www.rootschat.com/links/01sxo/

Year 1931 http://www.rootschat.com/links/01sxp/

[Jason Jase]

Thank you this is all very helpful.

[maddys52]

For interest, Elsie Mary BLATCH was born in New Zealand. Her father, Herbert Alfred BLATCH died in a drowning accident in 1901. A few newspaper articles about it eg:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19010926.2.26

death notice:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19010928.2.21

Mr H A BLATCH appointed engineer for the Dunstan Lead Gold Dredging Company in 1901:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19010831.2.42  (near the middle of the page)

Herbert and Emily BLATCH children born in NZ:
1898  Hewett Cecil  (1898/12621)
1900  Elsie Mary  (1900/3235)
1901  Edward Herbert  (1901/1159)

[maddys52]

This sounds like the family leaving Sydney going to Natal on the Suevic in 1904:

"Mrs. E. B. Blatch and infant, Miss E. and Master Cecil Blatch"
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14619494

[Jason Jase]

For Lewis Vowles i was told for some time he worked
Cammell Laird shipbuilders in Birkenhead I don't have dates on this though

[maddys52]

I am also missing the 1901 census for Lewis I assume he was still in England because he married his wife in England in 1902.

I meant to add earlier that his Masonic membership states date of initiation as 3 Dec 1901 and passing - 4 Feb 1902, raising - 4 Mar 1902. His address at the time was 121 Hampton Rd, Redland; occupation - mariner.

Not sure about his employment at Cammell Laird shipbuilders. In the 1891 census he is descrived as a 19 year old "seaman". In 1893 he is "2nd mate", 1895 - "1st mate" and 1902 - "master".
Have just realised, if you have access to Ancestry and look at the certificates for these, click to next page(s) and you find which ships he was on and when. eg for the 1901 census he would have been on the Guarany as 1st Mate.
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?196166

There is a record of him as apprentice indentured in Merchant Navy, aged 14 at Avonmouth (30 Sept 1886) for 4 years, to R, MILBURN.

So, as far as I can see, he was on boats from the age of 14.

[Jason Jase]

Thank you.

I was able to clear something up.

It wasn't Lewis but his Nephew Julian Darlington-Vowles that worked at Cammell Laird shipbuilders in Birkenhead. Hi worked there in 1931 to 1935

Somewhere in that time Julian Darlington-Vowles and his son met Lewis in that area on a visit.

[Jason Jase]

I am also trying to fill information on Rodney's cousin husband.

Rodney's cousin is
Daughter of Lewis' brother Julian Vowles and Mary Ellen DARLINGTON

Hilary Jocelyn Darlington Vowles
born 26 Feb 1919 King William's Town, Cape Province, South Africa
died 2009 in South Africa.

she married,
Noel Windell Callaghan
BIRTH ABT. 1909
DEATH 30 APR 1976 • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

he was a magistrate and later a Judge. So I am interested in what can be found there.

I am looking to make a connection with their 4 living children elsewhere since it is not allowed on roots chat and have their names. Which is strangely difficult.