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7th August 2018, 06:15 AM
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Re: Death at sea
Thanks everyone for suggestions. If he was already in Calcutta then he must have joined either the royal or merchant navy quite young? Is it right you could join as a cadet at 13 if you could prove sufficient education had been achieved? Would either service therefore require him to be enlisted and recorded somewhere. Looking deeper his family were well off business folks and could have afforded any financial transactions needed, but they were not what you would call upper class so privilege wouldn't have got him in, money and education might have? I find Ancestry type sites frustrating at times in that no record was found of his death at sea by putting his name in but by researching tangential themes up pops a death at sea section for Ancestry? Thanks again everyone. Wayne
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7th August 2018, 06:26 AM
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Re: Death at sea
Would love to know just what you put in your Search .as I have tried every which way but loose! LOL Clint!
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7th August 2018, 05:08 PM
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Re: Death at sea
Hi Clint, I know what you mean and still don't know how to find deaths at sea on ancestry even though I have been a member for a long time. I was surfing the net looking at how deaths at sea had to be recorded and it popped up in the list. Let me see records I don't normally see. The archives offic in his area have confirmed no burial took place so he was buried at sea. Would love to know if he was Merchant or Royal Navy and get more info about him. Thanks. Wayne
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7th August 2018, 09:10 PM
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Re: Death at sea
lol That was meant to be a sort of Funny the (Clint that is ) as in Clint Eastwood
But no worry Wayne I know to what it is like to get Records from those Sites!
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7th August 2018, 10:02 PM
#35
Re: Death at sea
Originally Posted by
Wayne Allen
Would love to know if he was Merchant or Royal Navy and get more info about him. Thanks. Wayne
Touch wood more will be found, at a guess I would go MN, certain the RN would even then have a provision for those sick / ill, somehow left at port etc etc.
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8th August 2018, 06:18 AM
#36
Re: Death at sea
Originally Posted by
Doc Vernon
lol That was meant to be a sort of Funny the (Clint that is ) as in Clint Eastwood
But no worry Wayne I know to what it is like to get Records from those Sites!
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Trust me to not see that! Thanks anyway. Wayne
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Thanks for that, will try them both. Wayne
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8th August 2018, 11:10 PM
#37
Re: Death at sea
Most likely as in #9 ?
William Morgan
United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records
Name
William Morgan
Event Type
Military Service
Event Year Range
1853-1857
Event Place
United Kingdom
Birth Year
1843
Will keep looking.
K.
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9th August 2018, 09:48 AM
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Re: Death at sea
Originally Posted by
Keith at Tregenna
Most likely as in #9 ?
William Morgan
United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records
Name
William Morgan
Event Type
Military Service
Event Year Range
1853-1857
Event Place
United Kingdom
Birth Year
1843
Will keep looking.
K.
Hi Keith, this is where I am struggling. I find the Forces site most frustrating because I don't know how to distinguish one surname from another, you don't get a location of birth or parents name to be able to be sure you have the right man or boy. WW1 records I have in plenty because the actual attestation papers give enough details to know you found the right person. I have tried some searches for the National Archives and tried to look up RN and MN personnel but nothing comes up. I found some similar names and DOB and ships joined etc but no info such as home town to narrow it down. Am I expecting to much from records of the day or just looking in wrong place? Also the ship Shand I found in other unconnected internet search-rescuing a crew- but can't find it in official ship lists. My inexperience I guess. I just feel a 13 or 14 year old boy going to sea must have had parental support or some sort of record kept? Will keep on until it makes sense. Thanks again. Wayne
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