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Richard G. Hall
Member
Username: g2gracing
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 18, 2004 - 2:35 pm: | 
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I am a child of adoption who is researching my biological father's family, the Odells, (thanks to a typo at Ellis Island, the name is incorrectly spelled "O'Dell" here in the states), and it was suggested I address my questions to this forum regarding my family's cabin aboard from South Hampton to Queenstown.
I am interested in any new info that I can glean the wealth of knowledge here. |
Erika E. Lagares
Member
Username: lusititaniac88
Post Number: 7
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 8:59 pm: |
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I have a picture of a boy on a deck, im not sure if it's a boy or a man,his name is Jan Odell, or so the picture's name is.
I haven't seen his name before, and I don't seem to find anything about him.
Has anyone heard or read about him?
"We have dressed in our best, and are prepared to go down like gentlemen."
Benjamin Guggenheim
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Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 9229
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 4:02 am: |
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Actually, it's 11 year old Jack Odell and if I'm not mistaken, he's the young lad who was caught by Fr. Brown's camera spinning a top out on deck. Fortunately for him and the rest of his family, they got off the ship in Queenstown. What little there is on him can be found at http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography/2217/
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Dave Gittins
Member
Username: gittins
Post Number: 2528
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 8:41 am: |
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The boy spinning the top was Douglas Spedden.
Jack Odell is the lad with the camera in a photo that I recall. I think it's in Titanic: An Illustrated History. He's also on page 99 of Father Browne's Titanic Album.
Dave Gittins
Titanic: Monument and Warning.
http://users.senet.com.au/~gittins/Book.html
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Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 9235
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 3:53 pm: |
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>>The boy spinning the top was Douglas Spedden. <<
Ah...okay. Sometimes I can't tell my players without a scorecard!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Dave Gittins
Member
Username: gittins
Post Number: 2533
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 8:38 am: |
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Here's a query. While googling for photos of Jack Odell, I found plenty of an older man of the same name. He was the technical expert behind Matchbox toy cars. Could he be the the lad from Titanic? His age would be about right for him to be an expert in making model cars in the 1950s.
I do know Odell lived to a great age but I don't have details.
Dave Gittins
Titanic: Monument and Warning.
http://users.senet.com.au/~gittins/Book.html
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Bob Godfrey
Member
Username: bobgod1
Post Number: 2819
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 3:42 pm: |
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The Jack Odell connected with Matchbox Toys (and the founder in the 1980s of his own company Lledo Toys) was certainly active within the last couple of years, and not looking like the oldest man in the world! :-) Jack Odell the toymaker was in fact born in 1920. |
Dave Gittins
Member
Username: gittins
Post Number: 2537
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 8:44 am: |
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Thanks for that, Bob. It was just the long arm of coincidence.
Dave Gittins
Titanic: Monument and Warning.
http://users.senet.com.au/~gittins/Book.html
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Bryan R. Carroll
Member
Username: brcarroll
Post Number: 8
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 1:57 pm: |
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A possible link to the ODell family?
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5811/92173.html?1098106512 |
Zack Wyatt
Member
Username: ship
Post Number: 16
Registered: 8-2009
| | Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 - 2:27 pm: |
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Jack Dudley Odell looks cute in the picture of him and his family on the boat deck! |
Kevin Saucier
Member
Username: onlychild
Post Number: 98
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 3:12 am: |
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I have three or so signed large pics of Jack Odell on my website. Check it out under the "Pictures & Autographs" section and see if they match yours.
http://titanicitems.com/pics.htm
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