Discharge Book

[j.sabourn]

My apologies Cappy, as you know I am not a googler. In fact can barely get by on computer, all this pasting etc what they talk about havent a clue and in no great hurry to learn. So you have wooden top ancestry like me. That passenger line company Seabourn Lines often wonder if any relation, and would they pull me into all their wealth if was. Cheers John S

[cappy]

Hi John, Vidlin in the shetlands, i punched into google, who knows most things, it is there, but i cannot enlighten more, i know nothing of the area, but the old boy cappy is not having us on, KT

#####thanks keith would never joke about family .......but like the old boy bit better than some names ive been called have one dischargepaper ...for the ship skulda720 tons...official no81131....engine horsepower 99.....foriegn trading.....age 26....ab 25...7 1898 ....aberdeen ....19 .12 ...98 .glasgow .....vg ....vg

[Dennis McGuckin]

Any help on #5 & 11?

[Keith at Tregenna]

####morning johnthe address of the museum in the shetlands is vidlin shetland ze2 9qd........the lubba the name of the croft .....in muckle roe ...i have a photo of it it overlooks a large sound......but not the sort of place i would like to live in winter ...regards cappy

Cappy: would Elizabeth Jane CRAM be known of by you ?

http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/get...18521&tree=ID1

also a William Arthur CRAM

http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/get...18519&tree=ID1

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RE: i suppose the lubba was cos they were landlubbers when the brothers went to work the smallholding in between sailing cant think of any reason for it been called that......perhaps any shelties on the site might know if lubba has a celtic meaning...... regards cappy

May be to do with a local term:

LUBBA, s. A name given to coarse grass of any kind ; Orkney.

"As to hills, they are covered with heath, and
what we call lubba, a sort of grass which feeds our
cattle in the summer time ; it generally consists of
different species of carices, plain bent, and other moor
grasses." P. Birsay, Statist. Ace., xiv. 316.

?

K.

[cappy]

well kieth well done i must give you the credit due to you ...you sure come in handy for info ,,,william arthur cram was my grandfather ...i have his fathers marriage lines from 1870he was an american who jumped a whaler ...lot of bloody jumpers in our family ......thanks for confirmation regards cappy

[Keith at Tregenna]

####morning johnthe address of the museum in the shetlands is vidlin Shetland: regards cappy

Vidlin:

http://www.shetland.gov.uk/ports/yachting/vidlin.asp