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Minnie Mason, ship's stewardess
A stewardess aboard aboard the cross-channel ferries during WW1
Minnie Mason was my great-grandmother and she was by all accounts ‘a tough cookie’. She was born Mary Joseph [sic] Devereux on 24 May 1872, in Johnstown, Waterford, the daughter of a merchant, James Devereux. She joined the Mercantile Marine about 1896 as a stewardess and worked on the cross-channel ferries until her death in 1927. Through her work she met and married Joseph Mason, a ship’s stewar…
Contributors
- Anne Long, Wexford
Subject
- World War I
- Remembrance
- Women
- Mary Joseph 'Minnie' Devereux
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1872
- 1927
- 1927
- 1872
Contributors
- Anne Long, Wexford
Subject
- World War I
- Remembrance
- Women
- Mary Joseph 'Minnie' Devereux
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1872
- 1927
- 1927
- 1872
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 2014-06-05 14:57:36 UTC
- 2014-06-05
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/cd718c2e17ebb529ac5f777966b269a1
Places
- Naval Warfare
Provenance
- WE16
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 15903
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/15903
Language
- English
- eng
Year
- 1872
- 1927
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-08-24T03:09:47.336Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-07-07T01:54:19.426Z