Sunday, 21 November 1937
Scrawled on a slant
No day – missed out crossing the equator
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 20 Nov: Pago Pago
Saturday, 20 November 1937
Arrived in Pago Pago today. Stayed in bed all day, too ill to go ashore, feeling very sick, retching all night.
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 19 Nov: At sea
Friday, 19 November 1937
Still very hot, got very sick, heat knocked me over. Arriving in Pago Pago tomorrow.
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 18 Nov: At sea, plate diving contest
Thursday, 18 November 1937
Very hot again, today. Watched the plate diving contest on top deck, played progressive bridge in smoke room. Not too good, the players.
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 17 Nov: At sea
Wednesday, 17 November 1937
Very, very hot day. Sat on deck all day with Mrs Coulter Went to pictures at night, pretty good show. Bad writing, the vibration of the boat – cannot write very well.
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 16 Nov: At sea, heading for Samoa
Tuesday, 16 November 1937
Very hot day. Tropical heat. Had out photos taken on board, then threw the leis overboard. Sat up on the top deck, played keno at night, lost 55 c/- no luck. Had cold drinks then to bed. Too hot to sleep.
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 15 Nov: Aloha! Honolulu
Monday, 15 November 1937
Arrived here, lovely welcome band playing; men in water diving for pennies. Went ashore with Mr & Mrs Coulter, had a good look at the shops, had lunch, then met Mr & Mrs Wonden [?] Took us all around, to all the sites, in an Oldsmobile. Went to the beach, mountains, in fact saw everything that was to be seen. Got back to the boat at 5.30, sailed again at 6. Band playing sweet aloes, all had ropes of flowers, around our necks – had photo taken with Fred & Mabel, lovely send off.
[In 1936, Frederick Herbert Thearle, dentist, and wife Mabel lived at ‘Namrow’, Elfreida Street, Mosman, NSW, Australia. Frederick was born in 1892 in Moruya, NSW and married Mabel Ruddinan in Waverly in 1916. Fred was age 45 at the time, Thirza, 58.
Sources:
Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]
Ancestry.com. Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.
Ancestry.com. Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.
Mr R.T. Coulter (46), his wife, Mrs P. Coulter (48) and daughter Miss P. Coulter (17) along with Fred and Mabel Thearle were fellow passengers with Thirza aboard the RMS Moldavia when Thirza sailed from Sydney in February to London, the Coulters having joined the ship in Brisbane.
Source Citation: Class: BT26; Piece: 1124; Item: 69.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Original data: Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces.]
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 14 Nov: At sea aboard the S.S. Monterey
Sunday, 14 November 1937
Went to Church in the lounge. Just sat about on the deck pretty warm
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 12 Nov: At sea aboard the S.S. Monterey
Friday, 12 November 1937
Sick to day. Did not get up until 5 in the afternoon
[Note: the journal is blank for November 13 so perhaps Thirza was not feeling well on that day as well.]
Thirza Pidgeon’s 1937 World Tour – 11 Nov: At sea aboard the S.S. Monterey
Thursday, 11 November 1937
At sea, nice sunny day but sea is pretty swelly.
[Being Remembrance Day, Thirza would have spent some moments in thought of her brother Percy who was killed 19 years early at Amiens, France, 24 April 1918, age 30.]
