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Brian Ahern
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Username: brian_ahern
Post Number: 287
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 5:08 pm: | 
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Does anyone know how this guy died? According to thepeerage.com, he and his daughter both died on July 6th, 1931.
http://www.thepeerage.com/p6256.htm#i62555
If the website is correct, he and his wife must have been divorced, as it givers her remarriage as taking place in 1929. |
Michael Poirier
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Username: mike_poirier
Post Number: 475
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 4:28 am: |
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Hi Brian
I am sorry I did not see your question. The date is wrong. Here is the correct info
1921 November 18th Orr-Lewis, Sir Frederick age 55 Cannes, France ( Home- Montreal )
He was with Lady Allan, the daughters, the Allan maids, his manservant George Slingsby, Bob Holt and the Stephens when the ship sank. A bit of interesting info- Slingsby was the roomate of Denyer, the Vanderbilt manservant while on the Lusy. They became friends while aboard.
Go Claire. You've got Talent!
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Brian Ahern
Member
Username: brian_ahern
Post Number: 329
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 5:59 am: |
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Thanks, Michael.
It's a lucky thing I was logging on today to see that you were kind enough to respond, since I don't get to visit the site so much anymore.
A mass e-mail was sent round the office on the subject of non-work-related internet use! I wasn't one of the people who got burnt, but I gotta watch it |
Michael Poirier
Member
Username: mike_poirier
Post Number: 476
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 2:59 pm: |
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Hi Brian
I am very sorry I didnt see your question earlier. If you read, George: Memoirs of a Gentleman's Gentleman- you'll learn quite a bit about Orr-Lewis. It's a great book, but the daughter I suspect tried to remember her father's stories versus using a written diary or account as some of things in the book do not jibe with what Slingsby put on paper himself.
Orr Lewis gave a good account of the disaster. I think he summed it up when he said something like, if only I could forgot what I saw, it would be a blessing.
Go Claire. You've got Talent!
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