Bidston Hill
reporting the ship’s arrival in Port Pirie, South Australia on November 11th 1895, after departing from Bremerhaven, Germany. She subsequently called at Newcastle, New South Wales and then Manila in the Philippines, arriving there on April 6th 1896. Redmond’s voyage came to a premature end in Boston, USA, where he, along with many of the crew, went down with diphtheria. This resulted in a long stay in a Boston hospital and finished his career at sea. (3)
Redmond ultimately arrived back in Britain as a passenger on
board S. S. Britannic on the 4th January 1897. (5) Following his return he
assumed his position in the family firm of Cafferata & Co., taking over the
running of the Hawton quarry and works in Newark. Amongst other tasks, Redmond
set up an industrial laboratory to address the quality control problems which
affected the firm, experimenting with different chemicals to improve the
setting time of the plaster.
Redmond Barton Cafferata
The early years of the twentieth century were important times for Redmond personally; he met the daughter of the former Russian Ambassador to the U.S.A., Tatiana de Bartholomey and they were married in Kensington at the end of 1901. They had a son, Redmond Randolph, on 18th August 1903 and spent time travelling in Switzerland where Redmond Randolph learnt to ski at a very young age. It was whilst the family was on one of these visits to Switzerland that Tatiana gave birth to a second son, Gerald Waterworth on 31st May 1906. A daughter, Sonia Helene was born in Newark on 14th January 1908 and another daughter, Tatiana, on 26th February 1914.