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Doni McLerran
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Username: donita
Post Number: 21
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 11:55 pm: | 
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Don't know if anyone is interested, but if they are, then here is a link to an old 1920 memoir written by Maisie Ward:
Father Maturin: A Memoir
Granted, for those who are strictly interested in the Lusitania connection, it only briefly mentions his death on the ocean liner towards the end of part V, but its still a fascinating read. Okay, maybe not for everyone. If religious bios aren't your thing, it may actually be a bit dry.
However, I have never seen a photo of Father Maturin. I have a book written by him (a modern reprint) and there is no picture. Even his bio in The Lusitania Resource doesn't have one. I've always sort of wondered what he looked like, so if anyone has or knows where a photo of Father Maturin might be, I'm interested.
-Doni
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Martin Owen Cahill
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Username: martin
Post Number: 481
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 12:28 am: |
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In Diane Preston's Wliful Murder is a portrait spread opposite p.308 His portrait is #19 at the bttom left. Page ref for the 2002 Doubleday edition.
cheers
Martin
"No Sir, We just hit the cruiser"
helmsman on Queen Mary
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Doni McLerran
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Username: donita
Post Number: 22
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 1:07 am: |
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Cool. Thanks! I don't have Preston's book, so I'll have to keep my eye out for it.
-Doni
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Cliff Mark Barry
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Username: cb139
Post Number: 81
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 7:20 pm: |
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Hi Doni,
here is a picture of Father Maturin when younger
View Image
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Doni McLerran
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Username: donita
Post Number: 24
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 7:26 pm: |
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Hey, thanks Cliff. Can't tell much from one picture, but he looks like he was a nice-looking fellow.
-Doni
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Doni McLerran
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Username: donita
Post Number: 26
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 4:10 pm: |
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Okay, I now have another Father Maturin question. The last account on him was that he handed a baby into a lifeboat and said, "Find its mother." Does anyone know who might have been that baby?
-Doni
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Ben Holme
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Username: benedict
Post Number: 689
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 - 6:29 pm: |
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Hi Doni,
If you're interested, I've a couple of photographs somewhere of Basil Maturin's headstone. Until recently, it was wholly obscured by 90 years' worth of ivy that had grown up around it. Unfortunately, the inscription has been pretty much obliterated.
All the best,
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