Genealogy Chat

Thank you ArgyllGran for the additional info, if only I could find as much out about him as I could about his ships !

still the revelation of finding some of these crew lists etc on line a few weeks backs has confirmed my thoughts that you should never give up looking. Some of the places he went to were fascinating.

and at least I now know he lived till at least 52 so can discard any deaths before 1915 :o)

Jan

Just for interest - I expect you have this already, Janet -

James Deuchar Ltd had a brewery at Montrose, and transported their beers to the Tyne by ship, including the "Lochside". The ships were dubbed "beer boats".

This explains the references to Montrose and Newcastle in the image in the link in Janet's OP.

A couple of links re Lochside's successor, Lochside II:

http://tinyurl.com/poptoke

http://tinyurl.com/qe9jyee

http://tinyurl.com/qejax3p

And the original Lochside on which Colin Campbell sailed:

http://tinyurl.com/qg98tct

Hi again Marie and Chirs Ho

Yes those are the correct men

Born 1863 Berwick upon Tweed
Married Adelaide Lousa Page

Was on all of those ships I had had little luck in finding out much about him until I found the Erme record on the crewlists website, I now have the ships log for that journey to Baffin Island and the crew lists for Erme, Lochside and Hartburn (latter two on National Maritime Museum lists for 1915)

btw I do have all the birth marriage census records etc so as people don't waste too much time posting those details) x

I had little luck in finding a death for him so am trying to build a time line through Merchant navy records so far have got as far as late 1915 (Lochside) He was a ships engineer on screw steamers mostly coal up and down the east coast

Jan

Janet - where & when was he born?

Reason for asking is that crew & passenger lists may show him and possibly the name of the ship may be clarified that way.

It's hard to make out if his age was 51 or 54 on the particulars of engagement.

http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Dittmar1.htm

(not sure if on above!)


http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1328692

(the one who Married below?)


Baptism
County Norfolk
Place Shelfanger
Church All Saints Tr
RegisterNumber 590
DateOfBirth 05 Mar 1861
BaptismDate 12 Nov 1865
Forename Adelaide Louisa
FatherForename Jesse
MotherForename Mary
FatherSurname PAGE
FatherOccupation Carpenter


http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl

Chris :)

England & Wales Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1861-1913 Transcription (Find My Past)

First name(s) C
Last name Campbell
Age 49
Birth year 1864
Birth place Berwick
Year 1913
Role Engineer
Vessel name Schooner "Erme"
From date 24 Mar 1913
To date 04 Nov 1913
Previous vessel Corbet Woodall
Previous vessel year 1913
Vessel official number 74627
Vessel registration port Plymouth
Port registry year 1912
Port registry number 1
Gross tonnage 115
Net tonnage 72
Master's first name(s) Thos J
Master's last name Fletcher
Owner's first name(s) W P
Owner's last name Jobson
Owner's address Camomile St


Plymouth Registered Vessels Lost
Erme Schooner 2 July 1918

http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/2._the_great_war.pdf


http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?11534

(Corbet Woodall 1917)


http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/649621.html

(Colin Campbell Lochside)

Thanks all

I cant find either name , I did think Eider ..........? ships number 113912 but it doesn'tlook like that really either......

Here's SS Lochside, apparently later named Helmsman:

http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?149242

Can't see anything for Eidic. White Star Line ships all ended in -ic, but no Eidic.
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/whitestar.shtml

The list includes a Cedric, but no Cirdic - can't see mention of a Cerdic anywhere else either - at least not around 1915 - and no Cirdic.
And the initial letter still looks like an E to me.

the c written in colin and campbell does not look like the name of the vessel with a C could be a E

The transcription on the website has it as Cirdic, but I'm not convinced

I would go along with ArgyllGran's interpretation

Have you googled to see if either vessel existed?

Eidic ??

The first letter looks like the E at the start of Engineer, rather than any of the C's on the pages.

On the transcription it says "Previous vessel Cirdic"

Evening everyone

On the second page of the document on below link from the National Maritime Museum documents can anyone interpret the name of the previous ship for Colin Campbell the Chief Engineer?

http://1915crewlists.rmg.co.uk/document/198959#&gid=1&pid=2

any suggestions welcome

thanks

jan