S.S. SIBERIAN MAY 24, 1898




From: Norma Brown 
Subject: SS Siberian 1898
From the NAC database, the Siberian dep. Liverpool 14 May 1898 and arr.
Halifax 24 May 1898, with no destination or party named.
From the 1901 Carleton Co., NB census: These boys were listed in the census,
year of arrival 1898:

MEREDITH, Fredr'k 22 Dec 1885 11 Brighton par., (Fred MERDITH, 15) BENET, Joseph 1882 15 Brighton par., (Joseph BENCH, 18) WILDING, Charles 02 Mar 1884 14 Brighton par., (Charles WEL??Y,17) WADSWORTH, Lizmer 03 Dec 1885 11 Richmond par.,(Abner WARDWORTH,15)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM SHARON in NB GUEST, Harry from Birmingham England to Halifax onboard the S.S. Siberian 14th. May 1898. Harry Guest later settled in York County where he lived with a family named ROBISON. Harry was 5 as of July 1897 (file #1815) Also, BLAKE, Florence Rose who came on the same ship at the same time and lived with the ROBISON family. She went by Rose BLAKE and was 10 as of 3rd. April 1903. Rose's sister also came here to Canada at the same time but I don't know where she went to live. She was BLAKE, Lillian Adelaise age 12 as of 21st. Dec. 1903. Their Father was William Charles BLAKE - the Mother was dead and the file shows that the children were illegimate. They were sent to the Middlemore home 17th. Jan. 1903. NOTES: Harry Guest and Rose Blake had a daughter, Jean Evelyn, born 17 June 1912 but they never married. Harry enlisted in the military in 1915 and was killed in action in 1916. Rose went to the US and trained to be a nurse and finally married and settled in Nova Scotia. Jean Evelyn's daughter has been reunited with the family in Nova Scotia. The info on Harry in the military can be found on the National Archives site.....click on the word "war" on the left side bar. He sometimes went by Henry and he is buried in Belgium. National Archives site and Harry Guest's Attestation papers are there. His reg. # is 444980

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