Joe worked as a steward on the ship Amsterdam and made several trip to the U.S. before he had permission to stay in the U.S. After he arrived in the US he and a friend traveled to Cincinnati were he worked for the B.B. Quillen at the Cincinnati Planner company. Here he met Mother who was working in a dinner a a waitress. He got married and finally was able to obtained he passport allowing him to stay in the U.S.
Informatie over de SS Londonier, waarmee hij in op 3-8-1992 in New York arriveerde.
LLOYD ROYAL BELGE (Great Britain) Ltd - (Late BRYS and GYLSEN) Shipbuilders WHITEINCH Glasgow LLOYD ROYAL BELGE (Great Britain) Ltd - (Late BRYS and GYLSEN) Shipbuilders WHITEINCH Glasgow - Photo Album. LLoyd Royal Belge Ltd, Glasgow (editor), s.d. (1920), large oblong in-4° album, 30 x 38 cm, bound in black half morocco, blue cloth covers with gilt ornaments, top edge gilt. Contains 1 portrait (Henry Gylsen) + 40 original photographs, mounted on 20 thick board leaves, photo size 23 x 28 cm, depicting the shipyard and the steamship Londonier under construction. Very well preserved photography album. The shipyard Lloyd Royal Belge in Glasgow (originally called Brys and Gylsen) was used during the First World War by the Belgians. The company was taken over during the shipping crises in 1930 by CMB (Compagnie Maritime Belge). The SS Londonier, as seen on the pictures was originally built as WWI Standard ship called War Kochia, 5582 Tons. It was completed as Londonier and came in 1930 under the CMB flag, 1939 Illenao, Agencia Maritima Colon (Panama). 1940 Syoto Maru, later Shoto Maru, Matsuoka Kisen KK, Ashiya (Japan). It was torpedoed and sunk by the USS Seawolff on August 31st 1943 at 28.27 N 128.03 E. (East China Sea, Ryukyu Islands).(With thanks to Mariners-I.co.UK for this information).(http://users.pandora.be/wimdegoeij/catHB.htm)
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[S90] Burgerlijke Stand Vaals : Geboorte, Akte: 175 ; d.d.:7-8-1905.
verscheen Johan Hubert Baltus oud 25 jaren van beroep wever wonende te Vaals die ons heeft aangegeven, dat op den vijfden Augustus 1905, ten vier ure des namiddags te zijne huize v. Clermontsplein 35 is gebroen een kind van het mannelijk geslacht uit Anna Franziska Harnischmacher, zijne echtgenoote, zonder beroep aan welk kind hij heeft verklaard de voornamen te geven van Pieter Jozef Mathijs.
Getuigen:
Julius Franken, 48 jaar, gegageerde wonende te Vaals
Hendrik Lambertz, 31 jaar, herbergier, wonende te Vaals.
Fred's Genealogisch Plekje
1905 - 1960 (54 jaar)
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