Ralph James Southerton

   Another name for Ralph was Ralf J. Southerton.

  General Notes:

Copy of actual Ship New York embarkation documentation in TOP LEVEL BMD in Grahams computer side for 1905 trip with new wife Nellie Blann. He had been over in 1904 to Lake Forest Illinois to visit friend Fred Jackson.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census UK: with a census age of 3, 1881, Withersole, Cranleigh, Surrey, England. ⁴

• Census UK: scholar with a census age of 13, 1891, Woodhill Lane, Cranleigh, Surrey, England. ⁵

• Census UK: domestic gardener with a census age of 23, 1901, Winterfold Gardens, Cranleigh, Surrey, England. ⁶ - Lord Alverstone owned the Winterfold Mansion http://www.thepeerage.com/p281.htm for information on Lord Alverstone

• Emigration: Ship 'Tunisian' from Liverpool - labourer, 10 Apr 1903, Halifax, Nove Scotia, Canada. ⁷

• Emigration: Ship 'City of New York' from Southampton into New York - Manifest Number 0001, 9 May 1905, New York City, USA. ⁸

• Census US: florist with a census age of 32, 1910, Highland Park, Deerfield Township, Lake County, Illinois, USA. ⁹

• Military Service - World War I: registration documents, 1917, Lake County, Illinois, USA. ³

• Census US: florist with a census age of 42, 1920, Manistee Michigan, USA. ¹⁰

Ralph married Nellie Blann, daughter of Benjamin Blann and Eliza Ward, about Jun 1905 in Hambleden, Cranleigh, Surrey, England.¹ (Nellie Blann was born about Jun 1880 in Hambleden, Cranleigh, Surrey, England ¹¹ and died after 20 Nov 1926.)