Introduction to Georgiana Jäger's South American Journey

Georgiana was the wife of George Jäger II who died in July 1903. The Jäger and MacIver families moved in the same circles in Birkenhead. I presume out of sympathy for her loss, she was invited to join a party that was travelling later that year from Liverpool to Montevideo, and from there to Puenta del Inca in the Andes, near to the border between Argentina and Chile. They sailed on the Barbary, which, with the Araby and the Burgundy, maintained the MacIver Line service between Liverpool and the River Plate.

In 1908 Georgiana's son Harold married David MacIver's daughter Dorothy, who is the Dorothy who was part of the party, though Harold is not the Harold referred to. Not long after that another of her sons, Bertie, married another of David's daughters, Ruth.

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