After looking at that 1891 census for the Cockell’s, I do not think they were connected to the Divers family on the previous page. I think making them one household is an error in the Ancestry.com database. The Divers family was living at 215 Stanstead Rd. The Cockell family was at 217 Stanstead Rd.  So it seems the parents were on travel with Grace and left the...

I was also under some impression Zalewski’s trips were later on, but so far we can’t confirm that.  Could it be that he made his first trip to Japan-China in the early 1900s and then his second trip later on? Perhaps, like Edward Cockell, he made his first venture there with the military, and the later on as a...

I found this an interesting passage from your link, Peter.  I am woefully ignorant of world geography, but doesn’t this account of Norman Mellor seem to parallel some of the photos in the Zalewski album?   “Being too young for demobilization, he (Norman Mellor) volunteered to join the HQ of the CLC instead of serving with the Army of Occupation of the Rhine,...

The year was 1920. The ship was the Empress of Russia.  Port of Departure, Hong Kong China sailing to the USA. Arriving at Port Vancouver, B.C. Two passengers of note Edward L Cockell (age 45) a “government servant” born in London, England and Katherine F Cockell, his wife (age 45) born in Melbourne Australia.   See attached manifests, lines 19 and 20.   I may...

Holy Cockells Batman! I think you may be onto something.  Of course, you know what this means. Now I’m going to have to spend some time today online to see if I can find out more about either of these men! I had looked into Louis Cockell’s family tree before and found no obvious link, so I dismissed the idea.   Imagine finding an E. L. Cockell in China during...