Jack Dudley Odell (1901 - 1995)

Born 1901 in Beckenham, Kent, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Jack Dudley Odell 1901 - 1995, at age Eleven years old when he travelled on the Maiden Voyage of Titanic to Queenstown, Ireland for a motor tour of the Country, he was the last male Titanic survivor.

Lily Odell, Kate Odell, Jack Odell, Richard May and Stanley May were all travelling together. Jack was eleven at the time and he and Kate brought along their cameras. Kate took a large number of photos, one of which was one of the last known photographs of the Titanic as they were on the tender going to Queenstown.

The group travelled to Southampton on the Boat Train where they boarded the Titanic for the voyage to Queenstown. The family had booked three 1st Class Suites on B-Deck. They consisted of two large rooms with windows and a small inside room. Jack probably occupied the smaller inside cabin while Kate, Lily and Richard and Stanley had the two connecting window rooms. In total they paid almost £7000 in today's money.

Upon arrival in Queenstown they intended to take a tour of Ireland and they had booked a motor for this purpose.

After leaving Titanic they drove to Cork in their hire car and stayed overnight and started their tour.

Herbert Odell was Jack's father and Lily's husband. He was a fish merchant and they worked at Billingsgate Fish Market. They lived in London in a large five bedroom Victorian house. Jack went to school there and left at thirteen and attended a boys’ school in Switzerland for a few months. Jack's father did not go on the holiday as he was away on business in Birmingham. To get home they took another sea crossing to Swansea and took another train back to London. When they arrived back, they attended the church service at St. Paul's Cathedral.

Census

"England and Wales Census, 1901,"^[1]

Herbert Odell Head Male 34 Camberwell, London

Lily Odell Wife Female 29 Clapham, London

Jack Dudley Odell Son Male 0 Beckenham, Kent

Alice M Johnson Servant Female 22 Dalston, London

Eliza Lord Servant Female 19 Little Oakley, Essex

"England and Wales Census, 1911,"^[2]

Robert Odell Head Male 44 Camberwell London, London

Lily Odell Wife Female 38 Clapham London, London

Jack Dudley Odell Son Male 10 Beckenham, Kent

Martha Jane Pryke Servant Female 27 Kings Lynn, Norfolk

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9XB-CM8 : 20 May 2019), Jack Dudley Odell in household of Herbert Odell, Beckenham, Kent, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Beckenham subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
2. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW8T-FWS : 8 July 2019), Jack Dudley Odell in household of Robert Odell, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

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