Can any one help as to what the abbreviations. "OBC" and "OFC" might mean on one of Ancestry's passenger lists please? I'm over the moon to have found my rather mysterious Gt Uncle Archie on one of these. He went off to the Far East as a young man in 1904 and the story was that he married out there but there's never been any evidence for that. I have him on Findmypast as an outgoing passenger to Singapore in 1935, so I knew he came back to England at some time but he was alone when he left- no wife travelled back with him. But,Eureka!,he is on Ancestry's new records. He came to England in 1934 and with him was his wife, Beatrice. She didn't go back until 1936 according to Findmypast - I wonder why? Maybe she was pregnant although no child travelled back with her.
Now, when they arrived at Dover in 1934, against Gt. Uncle Archie's name are pencilled in the letters "OFC" and a few other passengers have that or "OBC" by their names. OH and I have racked our brains to work out what this means. I don't think B and F stand for British or Foreign because the list is headed "Names and Descriptions of British Passengers"....and Archie was British by birth anyway. "FC" doesn't stand for First Class because Archie and Beatrice are listed as Second Class passengers. Now we've run out of ideas so if anyone can give us an explanation we would be grateful. I bet it will be something pretty obvious...but we've been mulling it over for too long and can't think straight now.
Any ideas please?
Ann
Now, when they arrived at Dover in 1934, against Gt. Uncle Archie's name are pencilled in the letters "OFC" and a few other passengers have that or "OBC" by their names. OH and I have racked our brains to work out what this means. I don't think B and F stand for British or Foreign because the list is headed "Names and Descriptions of British Passengers"....and Archie was British by birth anyway. "FC" doesn't stand for First Class because Archie and Beatrice are listed as Second Class passengers. Now we've run out of ideas so if anyone can give us an explanation we would be grateful. I bet it will be something pretty obvious...but we've been mulling it over for too long and can't think straight now.
Any ideas please?
Ann
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