Isabella Elizabeth Stephen

1914 - 1976  (62 years)

• Name	Isabella Elizabeth Stephen  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	12 Jun 1914	17 Catterline, Catterline, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Departure	30 Sep 1938	Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [3]
  Arrival	10 Oct 1938	New York, New York, USA   [3]
  	S S Transylvania
  Arrival	30 Aug 1945	Southampton, Hampshire, England   [5]
  	Ship: Nieuw Amsterdam; Shipping Line: Cunard White Star
  Departure	New York, New York, USA   [5]
  Departure	3 May 1946	Southampton, Hampshire, England   [1]
  	SS Queen Mary
  Name	Isabel
  Death	26 Nov 1976	Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA   [2, 4]
  Person ID	I2049	FHC029 - Stephen Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 May 2024

  
  

  Father	James Lees STEPHEN,   b. 9 Oct 1868, Catterline, Kincardineshire, Scotland d. 31 Jul 1939, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Catherine Douglas GOVE,   b. 6 Dec 1870, Kinneff and Catterline, Kincardineshire, Scotland d. 18 Sep 1945, Golf House, Cowie, Kincardineshire, Scotland (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	20 Jan 1894	St Phillips, Catterline, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [7]
  Family ID	F454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Henry Bulpitt,   b. 13 Mar 1907, Winchester, Hampshire, England d. 24 Apr 1960, Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk, New York, USA (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	12 Sep 1942	Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk, New York, USA
  Children	1. William Stephen Bulpitt
  Family ID	F141	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 May 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 Jun 1914 - 17 Catterline, Catterline, Kincardineshire, Scotland Departure - 30 Sep 1938 - Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Arrival - S S Transylvania - 10 Oct 1938 - New York, New York, USA Marriage - 12 Sep 1942 - Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk, New York, USA Arrival - Ship: Nieuw Amsterdam; Shipping Line: Cunard White Star - 30 Aug 1945 - Southampton, Hampshire, England Departure - - New York, New York, USA Departure - SS Queen Mary - 3 May 1946 - Southampton, Hampshire, England Death - 26 Nov 1976 - Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  1. Isabel Stephen came to visit her sisters in New York in 1938. She was the youngest of the four sisters that liked to call themselves "we four." The others were Edith, Catherine, and Violet. Jemima, the eldest sister, and all the brothers had stayed behind in Scotland (as I am sure you already know). After seeing America, she decided to stay, but to apply for permanent residence status she had to leave the country and re-emigrate. In those days, it was the custom for most people to go to Niagara Falls, Canada and spend a couple of days while re-entering the country. My mother had some adventure to her and decided instead to go with a friend to Havana, Cuba and re-emigrate from there. I have some great pictures of her in front of the big Casinos in Havana in 1938-1939. 2. My parents met through mutual British friends sometime in the 1939-1940 time frame in New York. They were married in Cold Spring Harbor, NY in 1942 and had the reception in my Uncle Jim Crombie (from Nairn, Scotland) and Aunt Catherine (mother's sister)'s garden in Cold Spring Harbor. 3. In April-May 1945 my grandmother (your great grandmother) became ill in Scotland and my mother (who was working in a munitions factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut) booked passage by ship (the U Boats were by then neutralized) back to England (not sure what city). This would have been very close to V-E day, and of course when that occurred my father's duties came to an end. They were apparently able to be together some in Catterline (no, I was not conceived at this time - do the math) but he was then shipped back to the States. 4. In the meantime, my mother stayed on in Scotland and my grandmother died in September (I believe) 1945. At that point, my mother had a problem. Since the war was now totally over, there was a mass exodus of allied forces and dependents from Europe, and my mother found herself in a very low priority status. Needless to say, she had a tough time getting back to the U.S., but was finally able to do so in March or April of 1946. This was aboard the Queen Mary which was still outfitted as a troop ship but was now pressed into service to return the "G.I. Brides" to America. Of course, that usually meant the newlyweds with babes-in-arms that had been attached to the American servicemen from France, England, etc. My mother had been married almost four years but it was the only way she could get home to my father. I have an Episcopal prayer book given to her by the Chaplain aboard the Queen Mary.

  
  

• Sources

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