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    Default Tracing a record of a Chinese Merchant Seaman - can you help?

    Hello and thank you for accepting my registration.

    I have an enquiry that I hope one of the members may be able to help with. I am trying to trace any record of a Chinese Merchant Seaman who was born in Shanghai in 1924 and who I understand served with the Merchant Navy during the Second World War. His name was Samuel Yung Sung DONG and it is believed his address while onshore was 17, Wesley Street, Liverpool. He married an English girl Claudina REGINIO from Liverpool and they subsequently had a daughter Christina

    Like many Chinese Merchant Seamen it appears Samuel was repatriated in late 1945 or early 1946 and not heard from again. Little Christina was adopted by her aunt. Due to the fact China was in the throes of it's own civil war during the period Samuel was repatriated, it is uncertain where he would have disembarked. It may have been Singapore or Hong Kong.

    I've tried without success to find any records for Samuel at the National Archives 1929-1945. I am aware through other websites that Samuel may have been one of the 20,000 Chinese Seamen who were recruited to assist the war effort. I understand a company called John Swire & Sons, who were also known as Butterfield and Swire were agents for Alfred Holt and Company (Blue Funnel) who employed many of the Chinese Merchantmen. I also understand (and please excuse my ignorance of this vital part of our history), that many of the Chinese Merchant Seaman were also employed by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum (Shell). What I'm really hoping to find is either a record of service, Seaman's Book or any Discharge papers or cards.

    Could anyone point me to where I may find them? I'm sorry I do not have any records of the ships Samuel sailed in.

    Thank you in advance

    Malcolm Kyle

    Discharge Card or Seaman's Book

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    Pos worth searching under Yung S S Dong

    Yung S S Dong
    mentioned in the record of Reginio and Yung S S Dong
    Name
    Yung S S Dong
    Event Type
    Marriage Registration
    Event Place
    Liverpool South, Lancashire, England
    Registration District
    Liverpool South
    County
    Lancashire
    Registration Year
    1943
    Registration Quarter
    Jan-Feb-Mar
    Page
    117
    Affiliate Line Number
    82
    Volume
    8B
    Spouse Name (available after 1911)
    Reginio
    Possible Spouse
    Claudina Reginio

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    Default Re: Tracing a record of a Chinese Merchant Seaman - can you help?

    Hello
    If Dong was his Surname then if he did serve in the MNavy at that time .his CRS10 should be held amongst this Series ,that is as far as i am aware of.

    https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11001452

    Reference: BT 382/3149
    Description: Dempsey E to Dyson J W
    Date: 1941 Jan 01 - 1950 Dec 31
    Held by: The National Archives, Kew
    Former reference in its original department: 12
    Legal status: Public Record(s)
    Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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    Also check Song.

    Hope this helps, Keith.


    Claudina Reginio
    mentioned in the record of Song and Claudina Reginio
    Name
    Claudina Reginio
    Event Type
    Marriage Registration
    Event Place
    Liverpool South, Lancashire, England
    Registration District
    Liverpool South
    County
    Lancashire
    Registration Year
    1943
    Registration Quarter
    Jan-Feb-Mar
    Page
    117
    Affiliate Line Number
    99
    Volume
    8B
    Spouse Name (available after 1911)
    Song
    Possible Spouse
    Samuel D G Song


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    Thank you for your prompt responses.

    I do have the record of the marriage and birth certificate for Claudina Reginio and Samuel in March 1943.

    It is any reference to his service I'm looking for.

    Thank you again and warm regards,

    Malcolm
    Last edited by Malcolm Kyle; 21st May 2019 at 08:14 AM.

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    The records added above are more about getting the name correctly at this stage,
    apart from your initial post, there are two other name formulations. Any record search
    requires actual. Will look further ASAP. Can you confirm any as correct ?

    K.

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    Default Re: Tracing a record of a Chinese Merchant Seaman - can you help?

    Quote Originally Posted by Malcolm Kyle View Post
    He married an English girl Claudina REGINIO from Liverpool and they subsequently had a daughter Christina
    If the same Claudio ?

    Could they have been divorced or known death ?


    Claudina Reginio
    mentioned in the record of Tung Ah Or Po Chang and Claudina Reginio
    Name
    Claudina Reginio
    Event Type
    Marriage Registration
    Event Place
    Liverpool South, Lancashire, England
    Registration District
    Liverpool South
    County
    Lancashire
    Registration Year
    1949
    Registration Quarter
    Jul-Aug-Sep
    Page
    1259
    Affiliate Line Number
    71
    Volume
    10D
    Spouse Name (available after 1911)
    Tung Ah Or Po Chang
    Possible Spouse
    Tung C Ah

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