Frank George Parkinson, steward and crew-member, perished in the sinking of "RMS The Empress of Ireland" when the steamship carrying 1,477 passengers and crew on a trans-Atlantic voyage departing from Quebec City to Liverpool, was struck amidships by the Norwegian collier "SS Storstad" in heavy fog conditions on the St Lawrence River near Pointe-au-Père (Father Point, Rimouski), in the early hours of May 29, 1914
A funeral was held for Mr F Parkinson, aged 30 years, on June 4th, 1914 at Saint Patrick's Church, Quebec. His body was interred in the English catholic parish cemetery, Sillery, Quebec City
Commemorated in Mount Hermon Cemetery on the Monument erected by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in memory of the 1,012 women, children and men who lost their lives in what was, at the time, the greatest maritime disaster in Canadian history
For further stories of the event, visit the 2014 Empress of Ireland Commemoration site, http://www.empress2014.ca∼Parkinson, Frederick George. He was a 2nd Class Waiter on the Empress of Ireland. He was born in Manchester around 1887, probably during the summer of 1886 at Salford, the son of John, a cabinet maker born at Liverpool, and Olivia Mary (nee Dorey; born about 1852 at Manchester) Parkinson, a native of Manchester. His parents had married in the summer of 1876 in West Derby, Lancashire. In 1901, Frederick was a 14-year-old billiard marker living at Peel Road in Bootle Cum Linacre with his mother Olivia, 48, and brothers and sisters John, 23, a ship steward, Reuben Henry, 21, a ship steward, Queenie, 19, a dressmaker, Mabel, 16, a shop assistant, and Emily, 11. Two relatives also lived with them; Joseph Dovey, 28, a native of Ireland, and William Nugent, 3, also born in Ireland. They also had a boarder, Stephen Collins, 45, a dock labourer. His balance of wages due on discharge was listed as £3.1.4 and the Canadian Pacific Railway noted he had been supposed drowned at Father Point 29 May 1914. According to the Canadian Pacific Railway, his body was recovered and identified.
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A funeral was held for Mr F Parkinson, aged 30 years, on June 4th, 1914 at Saint Patrick's Church, Quebec. His body was interred in the English catholic parish cemetery, Sillery, Quebec City
Commemorated in Mount Hermon Cemetery on the Monument erected by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in memory of the 1,012 women, children and men who lost their lives in what was, at the time, the greatest maritime disaster in Canadian history
For further stories of the event, visit the 2014 Empress of Ireland Commemoration site, http://www.empress2014.ca∼Parkinson, Frederick George. He was a 2nd Class Waiter on the Empress of Ireland. He was born in Manchester around 1887, probably during the summer of 1886 at Salford, the son of John, a cabinet maker born at Liverpool, and Olivia Mary (nee Dorey; born about 1852 at Manchester) Parkinson, a native of Manchester. His parents had married in the summer of 1876 in West Derby, Lancashire. In 1901, Frederick was a 14-year-old billiard marker living at Peel Road in Bootle Cum Linacre with his mother Olivia, 48, and brothers and sisters John, 23, a ship steward, Reuben Henry, 21, a ship steward, Queenie, 19, a dressmaker, Mabel, 16, a shop assistant, and Emily, 11. Two relatives also lived with them; Joseph Dovey, 28, a native of Ireland, and William Nugent, 3, also born in Ireland. They also had a boarder, Stephen Collins, 45, a dock labourer. His balance of wages due on discharge was listed as £3.1.4 and the Canadian Pacific Railway noted he had been supposed drowned at Father Point 29 May 1914. According to the Canadian Pacific Railway, his body was recovered and identified.
Courtsey Peter Engberg-Klarström.
Add by Trevor Baxter 48403329.
Frank George Parkinson, steward and crew-member, perished in the sinking of "RMS The Empress of Ireland" when the steamship carrying 1,477 passengers and crew on a trans-Atlantic voyage departing from Quebec City to Liverpool, was struck amidships by the Norwegian collier "SS Storstad" in heavy fog conditions on the St Lawrence River near Pointe-au-Père (Father Point, Rimouski), in the early hours of May 29, 1914
A funeral was held for Mr F Parkinson, aged 30 years, on June 4th, 1914 at Saint Patrick's Church, Quebec. His body was interred in the English catholic parish cemetery, Sillery, Quebec City
Commemorated in Mount Hermon Cemetery on the Monument erected by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in memory of the 1,012 women, children and men who lost their lives in what was, at the time, the greatest maritime disaster in Canadian history
For further stories of the event, visit the 2014 Empress of Ireland Commemoration site, http://www.empress2014.ca∼Parkinson, Frederick George. He was a 2nd Class Waiter on the Empress of Ireland. He was born in Manchester around 1887, probably during the summer of 1886 at Salford, the son of John, a cabinet maker born at Liverpool, and Olivia Mary (nee Dorey; born about 1852 at Manchester) Parkinson, a native of Manchester. His parents had married in the summer of 1876 in West Derby, Lancashire. In 1901, Frederick was a 14-year-old billiard marker living at Peel Road in Bootle Cum Linacre with his mother Olivia, 48, and brothers and sisters John, 23, a ship steward, Reuben Henry, 21, a ship steward, Queenie, 19, a dressmaker, Mabel, 16, a shop assistant, and Emily, 11. Two relatives also lived with them; Joseph Dovey, 28, a native of Ireland, and William Nugent, 3, also born in Ireland. They also had a boarder, Stephen Collins, 45, a dock labourer. His balance of wages due on discharge was listed as £3.1.4 and the Canadian Pacific Railway noted he had been supposed drowned at Father Point 29 May 1914. According to the Canadian Pacific Railway, his body was recovered and identified.
Courtsey Peter Engberg-Klarström.
Add by Trevor Baxter 48403329.
A funeral was held for Mr F Parkinson, aged 30 years, on June 4th, 1914 at Saint Patrick's Church, Quebec. His body was interred in the English catholic parish cemetery, Sillery, Quebec City
Commemorated in Mount Hermon Cemetery on the Monument erected by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in memory of the 1,012 women, children and men who lost their lives in what was, at the time, the greatest maritime disaster in Canadian history
For further stories of the event, visit the 2014 Empress of Ireland Commemoration site, http://www.empress2014.ca∼Parkinson, Frederick George. He was a 2nd Class Waiter on the Empress of Ireland. He was born in Manchester around 1887, probably during the summer of 1886 at Salford, the son of John, a cabinet maker born at Liverpool, and Olivia Mary (nee Dorey; born about 1852 at Manchester) Parkinson, a native of Manchester. His parents had married in the summer of 1876 in West Derby, Lancashire. In 1901, Frederick was a 14-year-old billiard marker living at Peel Road in Bootle Cum Linacre with his mother Olivia, 48, and brothers and sisters John, 23, a ship steward, Reuben Henry, 21, a ship steward, Queenie, 19, a dressmaker, Mabel, 16, a shop assistant, and Emily, 11. Two relatives also lived with them; Joseph Dovey, 28, a native of Ireland, and William Nugent, 3, also born in Ireland. They also had a boarder, Stephen Collins, 45, a dock labourer. His balance of wages due on discharge was listed as £3.1.4 and the Canadian Pacific Railway noted he had been supposed drowned at Father Point 29 May 1914. According to the Canadian Pacific Railway, his body was recovered and identified.
Courtsey Peter Engberg-Klarström.
Add by Trevor Baxter 48403329.
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