Genealogy Chat

How sad for your father and his family. I thought I had misread your post Shirley, it is clear now. Makes all the difference when you find someone who will go the extra mile....we have a few of them here in our local archives.........they love their jobs you can tell.....wish I would have chosen the same path when I was younger.....that is a job I would have loved.

Ann

Ann

No they had his name OK
I found the ships log at Kew which I needed for the vessels name. I then found the GRO Marine death Ref at The LRO at Islington when it was still open , I have the death cert now which is different from the "normal" death cert and shows it as a copy of an Entry in the Marine registers Gives The vessels name ,his name, age , place of death At Sea , cause of death, lost overboard .

We knew in the family that grandfather had been lost at sea when my dad was about 4 but I didn't know the vessels name which was needed for the search however a very helpful staff member at Kew did some digging for me and came up with the vessels name.. From then I was able to get a copy of the ships log which records the event with the longitude and latitude readings etc

Hello Shirley,

Do you mean they did not have record of your grandfathers name?

Your first comment may be a possibilty having seen lots of census entries for different nationality.

Maybe Jeremy is correct and he was the cook..........wonder did anyone collect that death cert.........it is a little strange.

Annx

Any deaths at sea are picked up by the ships log when the ship ends its journey .Death certs are then issued by the Marine Indices .

My grandfather was lost at sea in 1911 between Melbourne and Bremen and i have his GRO Marine death cert which just records his death

He may have been another nationality and his name was unpronounceable to those on board ,so this was what he was known as.

Thats what I thought............do you think the food was that bad they fed him to the sharks! :-)

Very strange though :-S

Presume he was the cook........

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Overseas BMD details
Registration event: Death


Name: FRYING PAN, Male (unnamed)
Vessel: Benguela
Country: At sea
Year: 1888
Page: 41
Age at death:

Record source: GRO Marine Death Indices (1846 to 1902)