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Author: Akiban
Surnames: Casagrande
Classification: queries
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This seems a long shot, but.
I'm researching for a book about the SS Volturno, an emigrant ship that caught fire
sailing from Rotterdam to Halifax and New York in October 1913, and would love to find out
more about a couple who were aboard the ship.
Various news article refer to a couple traveling in first class by the names of Réné and
Jean Casagrande of France; most accounts refer to them as newlyweds. One in particular,
refers to the fact that Mr. Casagrande was a recent engineering graduate and the couple
were traveling to North America to begin a new life. They may have been traveling with a
sister of Mrs. Casagrande. Although most people aboard the ship were eventually rescued,
the Casagrandes panicked, perhaps, and jumped overboard into the stormy seas and were
never seen again. The one report that mentions a sister/sister-in-law, reports that she
jumped with the couple.
I am interested in *any* details about this couple, no matter how small, but especially:
where they were from, where they were headed, any information about their families, etc.
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