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Søren Jørgensen ⁶

   Another name for Søren was Poppa Jørgensen.

  General Notes:

Søren was 1 year old at the 1860 census and living in Tømmerup with his family. His mother Juliane Jensen 29 who was separated from her husband, his brother Jens 3, sister Ellen Marie Christiansen 7, his aunt Ellen Jensen 13 and grandmother Kirsten Nielsdatter 52, a crofter's widow.

He was a 28 year old cabinetmaker when Anna Margreth was born.

He was known as "Poppa" Jorgensen to Anna & Jens children. [As told by Ena Thompson (b. Kroll) July 2015]

Soren Jorgensen was declared insolvent in November 1908 and a notice under Public Notices in The Brisbane Courier Nov. 28, 1908. The payment of the final dividend of 1s 2d in the £.
CITATION: Advertising (1908, November 28). The Brisbane Courier (Qld.: 1864-1933), , p.2.
Retreived April 3, 2016, from http://nla.news-article19551489.

  Some of his life's milestones were:

He was working as Carpenter journyman in Frederiksberg, København, Denmark in 1884 ¹²

He immigrated as an assisted immigrant to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on Oct 19, 1886 ¹³ arriving on the ship "Chyebassa", with wife Marie and baby Olga.

Søren was living at Stanley St. South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1905 ¹⁴ and working as a Joiner

Søren was living at Meadowlands Belmont, Queensland, Australia in 1908 To 1919 ¹⁵

He was involved in a court case concerning insolventcy in Nov 1908 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ¹⁶ Søren Jørgensen was declared insolvent in the Supreme Court of Queensland. A Public Notice in the Brisbane Courier newspaper advised that a second and final dividend of 1s. 2d. in the £ was payable at the office of the Trustee.

Søren was living at 425 Logan Rd. Buranda, Queensland, Australia in 1919 To 1937 ¹⁷

Søren was living at Bournville, The Esplanard Wynnum, Queensland, Australia in 1937 To 1948 ¹⁸

He was buried about Dec 4, 1948 at Mt Thompson, Queensland, Australia. ¹⁹

VOYAGE OF THE CHYEBASSA.

The following story appeared in the newspaper the year before Soren Jorgensen and family sailed to Australia and shows a typical sea voyage of the day.
"VOYAGE OF THE CHYEBASSA."
THE B.I.S.N. [British India Steam Navigation] Company's R.M.S. Chyebassa, 1714 tons, Captain L. A. Wilson, from London via ports, with passengers, immigrants, and a general cargo, anchored in the Brisbane roadstead yesterday afternoon at half-past 5 o'clock, and will be assisted up the river on this morning's tide. She will be berthed alongside Parbury, Lamb, and Co.'s wharf, South Brisbane, where she will land her inward cargo and ship her homeward freight
R.M.S. Chyebassa left Gravesend at 4.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 25th August; reached Port Said on Monday, 7th September, at 8.30 am. ; Suez at 6 p.m. on the 7th, and Aden at 7.45 a.m. on the 14th (Monday) ; here waited till next morning at 9.30 for the Queensland portion of the outgoing mails per P. & O. Company's S.S. Coromandel. Arrived at Colombo about 9 a.m. on Wednesday, 23rd September; at Batavia on Thursday, 1st October; at Thursday Island on Sunday, the 11th, at 5.20 p.m.; at Cooktown on Wednesday, the 14th; and anchored in the Brisbane roads on Tuesday, the 20th.
The Chyebassa had fine weather and fair winds from the English Channel to Port Said; light fair winds, with very hot weather, through the Red Sea; strong fair winds and much sea thence to Colombo, and also thence to the Equator near the coast of Sumatra; from the line to Sunda Straits fresh head winds and considerable S. swell; and from Batavia to the coast of Queensland fresh easterly winds with smooth sea and fine weather. Passed S.S. Quetta in the Mediterranean, and S.S. Dorunda at Aden; also, at 5.30 a.m. on Wednesday last, passed S.S. Merkara about fifty miles north of Cooktown.
The Chyebassa comes out under the command of Captain L. A. Wilson, who for the last six years has been in the B.I.S.N. Company's service on the Indian coast. For many years previously he was in the employment of the West India Royal Mail Company; he is therefore a navigator of experience, although this is his first visit to the Torres Strait route and Queensland. Captain Morris, his predecessor, has been promoted to the Dacca, one of the company's finest vessels on the Indian line. The surgeon-superintendent, Mr. J. L. Gibson, M.D., is the son of a well-known colonist \emdash Mr. James Gibson, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Ipswich. Dr. Gibson is a gentleman skilled in modern medical science, but he directs his attention chiefly to the surgical branch of his profession. The matron, Mrs. Symes, is experienced in her business, having travelled several times to Queensland with immigrants. She is a strict disciplinarian, and though not very popular, is entitled to credit for the increasing attention she bestows on the young women committed to her charge. The number of immigrants despatched by the Chyebassa is 310 souls, equal, to 264 statute adults. There have been two births on the passage and four deaths. Of the latter two were of young children, and two of adult women from heat apoplexy in the Red Sea.
Excepting the troubles of the Red Sea, the passage was not marked by any very striking incident. From the Channel to the Canal the run was like a pleasure trip, the wind being fair and the weather fine throughout. On the second day in the Canal the temperature on deck attained 91º Fahrenheit, and gave the people a foretaste of the coming heat. At Suez a fine northerly breeze cooled the air as the ship passed that place on the evening of Tuesday, 8th September, and as the outgoing mail was due at Aden for a week, while the distance could be easily done within five days, Captain Wilson determined to make the run under easy steam. Unfortunately the weather was very hot, the wind fair, and the air moist. The wind and ship thus travelled at the same speed, creating a calm on board, and making the heat almost unsupportable. The early morning deck temperature during the Red Sea passage ranged between 87º and 90º in the shade; while from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. it ranged from 93º to 98º. During the night the range was from 88º to 91º. This was on deck; in the cabins the temperature both by day and night was from 93º to 95º, rendering sleep below impossible, and driving everybody to the deck at night. On the night of Saturday, 12th September, Emily Milliard, spinster, died from heat apoplexy, and on the following night Maggie Winning, wife of the schoolmaster on board, also died. They were both middle-aged women, being 40 and 41 years respectively, and the latter left a husband with nine children on board. During Sunday the cases of illness were numerous, the matron stating that at one time she had no less than forty-seven of her women lying about in a fainting state. Several of the saloon passengers also were ill, and had the ordeal been prolonged a day or two the consequences would have been serious, as six successive days of extreme heat was telling upon the more robust of the people on board. As it is, the Chyebassa has arrived with two critical cases, the results of the Red Sea passage. One of these is of a young woman who was struck down and has never regained her senses, yet evidences extraordinary vitality. The other case is that of a girl about 12 years of age. The vessel reached Aden early on Monday, the 12th, and there sensible relief was experienced, the deck temperature that day not exceeding 92º, and the heat being mitigated by a light breeze as the ship lay at anchor. The Aden pilot reported that the Orient S.S. Austral, which passed through outward bound two days previously, had lost four passengers in the Red Sea, and that the heat at Aden for a week past had been excessive, even for that torrid settlement, owing to the absence of wind. Between Aden and Colombo the wind was still fair, but a strong sea breeze moderated the heat, while the heavy swell caused more sea-sickness than had previously been experienced on the passage. A day at Colombo, however, greatly revived the invalids, but they again suffered from the heavy sea between there and Sunda Strait, where the rough weather ceased, and the remainder of the run was cool and fine, with head winds and smooth sea. Indeed, the Chyebassa was fortunate in wholly escaping high winds throughout the passage, the heavy seas she encountered between Aden and Sunda being the consequence of previous gales.
Divine service on Sunday mornings was conducted on board by the Rev. Gilbert White, a Church of England clergyman, who has come out to labour in the diocese of Townsville. Mr. White was also very industrious in conducting Bible classes almost daily among the immigrants, and in otherwise ministering to their spiritual wants. Another of the passengers, Lieutenant Leeper, R.N., also distinguished himself by organising, with the hearty assistance of Mr. Vine, the chief officer, an amusements committee, under whose management several very successful concerts and other entertainments were given on board, much to the benefit of both immigrants and passengers. On the whole the passage was a pleasant one, although the ship was too crowded for a hot weather passage, and the fencing off of more than one-third of the quarter-deck for the single women immigrants was the cause of inconvenience and discomfort to the saloon passengers. There was a good supply of ice on board, even in the Red Sea; but it is scarcely possible, in the absence of refrigerating appliances, for a ship's steward to maintain a good table in the excessively hot weather that is often encountered on this smooth water passage. No good butcher's meat is obtainable at any port between Townsville and London, and as only a small supply of live sheep and poultry can be carried on board an emigrant vessel, the fare at times for persons unblessed with robust appetites is rather a trial. With refrigerating machinery, and ample supplies of frozen provisions taken in at the terminal ports, the Torres Straits steamers would rival first-class hotels in respect of the quality and wholesomeness of their vitals. This desirable state of affairs already exists on board some of the B.I.S.N. Company's vessels, and no doubt the time is at hand when it will be considered unreasonable to send a large passenger steamer on a long sea voyage unprovided with refrigerating appliances.
The immigrants by the Chyebassa are a fair average lot, who have proved themselves open to receive instruction as well as amenable to discipline on board. Their quarters were kept as clean as circumstances permitted, the only exceptions being some Swedes, whose dirty habits gave the surgeon-superintendent some trouble. The Chyebassa landed cargo at the various Northern ports as follows :\emdash Cooktown, 129 packages ; Townsville, about 600 tons ; Bowen, 316 packages ; Mackay, 217 packages; Rockhampton, 737 packages ; and has now on board 1420 tons for Maryborough, Bundaberg, and Brisbane\emdash total, 1729 tons.
She brought the following passengers for the Northern ports: For Thursday Island\emdash Mr. George H. Irvine; for Townsville \emdash Mr. and Mrs. Firth, Lieutenant Leeper, and Messrs. F. A. Alston, Maurice Barnett, J. S. Gill, and Rev. Gilbert White ; for Bowen\emdash Messrs. George Cleghorn and W. Ewing ; for Rockhampton\emdash Mr. and Mrs. J. Davies and Miss Davies, Mrs. and Miss Annie
Source: The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 �E1933) Wed 21 Oct 1885 Page 3
Titled VOYAGE OF THE CHYEBASSA. "http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3450975"
Cite this title: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title16 "http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title16" accessed Nov 26, 2017

Søren married Kathrine Benediktine Marie Høyer, daughter of Jens Kristian Høyer and Henriette Margrethe Olsen, on Nov 9, 1884 in Frederiksberg, København, Denmark.^{1 2} (Kathrine Benediktine Marie Høyer was born on Sep 12, 1854 in Slaglille, Sorø Co., Denmark ⁷, baptised on Oct 3, 1869 in Slaglille, Sorø Co., Denmark ²⁰ and died in 1900 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

In the Danish census of 1885 Søren and Katherine were recorded as living in the Udenbys Klædebo Kvarter of Copenhagen. This translates as the Klædebo neighbourhood outside the old city [verification required]. Søren is recorded as a carpenter's apprentice and Katherine as housewife. Living with them as a lodger was Katherine's brother, 19 year old Jens Christian Høyer who was working as a typographic apprentice. ²¹

Søren next married Mary Ann Johnstone, daughter of David Johnstone and Elizabeth Long, on Apr 1, 1907 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.^{3 4 5} (Mary Ann Johnstone was born in 1869 in Fermanagh Co., Northern Ireland ²² and died on Dec 16, 1954 in Queensland, Australia ²³.)

  Marriage Notes:

A postcard to Maggie from Echel dated 27.1.07 when she was at Wallumbilla, Qld. said "I was quite surprised to hear of your Father getting married."