Jack Odell

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1. I have been talking to a relative of the Odells, who is very interested in her family history. She says that the family were related to the Mays by marriage - hence the presence of Stanley May and Richard May as travelling companions. There could also be a link to the Conynghams (spellings vary), who were from Donegal; all of these people were apparently travelling on the same ticket. It is believed that most branches of these inter-related families were Protestants, and it is unlikely that they would have adopted the O’dell spelling. I can probably find out much more about their backgrounds.
2. Just a thought, but "the the Odells who arrived at Ellis Island", cannot have been the Odells who got off the Titanic at Queenstown, unless they subsequently travelled to America on another vessel (which I think is unlikely). In any case, would First Class passengers have been sent to Ellis Island? I had always thought that they were, in some way, "excused" - unless there was an immigration problem, as happened in the case of the music hall/vaudville star Marie Lloyd, whose act was considered to be too immoral for American audiences.
3. Hello folks - I am writing an account of some of the children on board the Titanic. May I enquire if anyone knows if Jack Odell ever wrote some memories of his cross channel voyage?
4. The Odells are mentioned several times on this forum, but I don't think Jack Odell could remember very much about his cross-channel trip.
5. Hello everybody, I have been looking at this site and recently registered as I am a relative of Jack O'Dell who is mentioned along with his family in a few forums and also the phot album that was taken by the family group. To cut a long story short, Jack's second wife - Pamela Davies was my fathers Sister, so Jack was my uncle. There seems to be some missing information on jack in his later years and I'm happy to fill in any missing pieces if I can. Also very interested to hear from any other members of the O'Dell family if there are any still alive. As a point in one Forum it was mentioned if Jack was the same jack Odell that invented matchbox toys., I can confirm 100% it is not the same person, jack Odell took over his father's Fish business and ran it successfully until it went bust and he lost everything whilst he was married to Pamela. In his later years he and Pamela lived in a council house in Milton Keynes which was the stage of his life that I knew him. As far as I am... Read full post

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