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How I discovered the guilty secret of my Titanic violinist grandfather: Writer wanted to learn more about tragic relative...but he didn't expect to find he'd cheated on his gran and spawned his own Jamaican family
Jock Hume was one of the famed band musicians on the Titanic in 1912
Left mother of his child, Mary Costin, who was pregnant when he died
But following a thorough investigation, more has been revealed about Jock
Transpired that he fathered another child with a Jamaican waitress at roughly the exact same time
By CHRISTOPHER WARD
PUBLISHED: 17:23 EST, 16 September 2015 | UPDATED: 02:13 EST, 17 September 2015
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The story of my young grandfather Jock Hume (pictured) has long fascinated me and I thought I had found out just about all there was to know about him
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The story of my young grandfather Jock Hume (pictured) has long fascinated me and I thought I had found out just about all there was to know about him
The last survivors had left the Titanic in lifeboats an hour earlier. On the sloping deck, as the water edged ever closer to their feet, eight musicians played on, completing all five verses of Nearer, My God, To Thee.
The hymn, they hoped, would offer some comfort to the 1,500 remaining men, women and children who would soon join them in the icy Atlantic.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3m22I2a6B
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Jock Hume was one of the famed band musicians on the Titanic in 1912
Left mother of his child, Mary Costin, who was pregnant when he died
But following a thorough investigation, more has been revealed about Jock
Transpired that he fathered another child with a Jamaican waitress at roughly the exact same time
By CHRISTOPHER WARD
PUBLISHED: 17:23 EST, 16 September 2015 | UPDATED: 02:13 EST, 17 September 2015
7.5k
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The story of my young grandfather Jock Hume (pictured) has long fascinated me and I thought I had found out just about all there was to know about him
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The story of my young grandfather Jock Hume (pictured) has long fascinated me and I thought I had found out just about all there was to know about him
The last survivors had left the Titanic in lifeboats an hour earlier. On the sloping deck, as the water edged ever closer to their feet, eight musicians played on, completing all five verses of Nearer, My God, To Thee.
The hymn, they hoped, would offer some comfort to the 1,500 remaining men, women and children who would soon join them in the icy Atlantic.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3m22I2a6B
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