"BobC" <calverb-null@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:MPG.2cf6a4762515c6099896a2@news.btinternet.com... > I'm trying to fill in some details for a Robet BECKETT who died > during > WW 1. He is commemorated in the UK on a Lancashire village > memorial > tablet which shows him as a "Fireman Australian Mercantile > Marine". > He seems to have died in the Haslar Naval Hospital near > Portsmouth > (England) and he is buried in the local church in Lancashire. > > He obviously has some connection with the village but the > problem is > that there are two Robert Becketts born around the date with > strong > connections to the village (they are actually cousins). > > One disappears from UK census records after 1901, the other is > in the > 1911 but that is as far as we can get. A Robert Beckett > appears in > shipping records in June 1911 travelling from London to > Freemantle, he > is described as a "miner". Neither of the two I have > identified had > occupations related to mining. I realise that other Robert > Becketts > Hi Bob C Not that many without a middle name .Would help if you gave more info .e.g what info was in the 1901 & 1911 censuses The Mercantile Marine here seems to date from c 1922 Aside from the passenger departures from the UK , Ancestry also have one on passenger arrivals to port of Freemantle WA . Seems to be around 33 passengers disembarked from the Omrah 29 Aug 1911 but no Robert BECKETT ? In our National Archives http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx via a name search I found ref to a Robert BECKETT age 31 of Kalgoorlie WA ( large mining area then and now ) but no other info and file not digitised. No Robert BECKETT no middle name, shows up in the AUs electoral rolls 1911 + a few years that 'looks right' Via the Aus War Memorial there was 1 x Robert BECKETT 11th battalion KIA 31/ 10/17 but no further info ?? FreeBMDs shows a death of a Robt BECKETT ,aged 37, 4/1916 Lancaster and 2 both 25yo 4/1918 All a bit inconclusive............. Bye -- MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast

In article <bf4vpaFag15U1@mid.individual.net>, genknut@exemail.com.au says... > > > Hi Bob C > > Not that many without a middle name .Would help if you gave > more info .e.g what info was in the 1901 & 1911 censuses > > The Mercantile Marine here seems to date from c 1922 > > Aside from the passenger departures from the UK , Ancestry also > have one on passenger arrivals to port of Freemantle WA . Seems > to be around 33 passengers disembarked from the Omrah 29 Aug > 1911 but no Robert BECKETT ? > > In our National Archives > http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx > > via a name search I found ref to a Robert BECKETT age 31 of > Kalgoorlie WA ( large mining area then and now ) but no other > info and file not digitised. Thanks, the pointer to the naa.gov.au site was useful in that it closes off some names. It looks like the 1911 "Omrah" Robert Beckett may have left the ship somewhere before its arrival in Freemantle (just where is another matter - it might not even have been in Australia). We don't even know Robert the "Fireman" actually went to Australia - he could have signed on Australian merchant ship in, say, Liverpool. I'm trying to resolve this at this end - was he buried in a family grave for instance. Census info for 1901 and 1911 for the two Roberts wouldn't help - one was an Ag.Lab, the other a House Painter, neither married. I have a good family reconstruction of both families. -- BobC ========== Change "null" to "news" in reply address.