Maybe this will kickstart your research! Here is their marriage: 15 June 1907, Christchurch Church of Ireland, Shankill Parish, Belfast James Edmund STEWART to Matilda COLLINS That is all the details I can get from Emerald Ancestors, but Family Ulster can send you all the rest, i.e. fathers names and occupations, in an email for about £6. Regards,RosemaryJoan ----- Original Message ----- From: "PETER FERGUSON" <pvi@austarnet.com.au> To: <IRL-BELFAST-CITY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:12 AM Subject: [BELFAST] James Edmund STEWART IRE - ROYAL NAVY - AUS > Thank you Admin for a warm welcome to this list. > > My interest in my wife's grandfather James Edmund STEWART born about 1880 > in Belfast area > Father James Mother Mary > > Apprenticeship at Harland and Wolfe as Shipwright. > > Married before 1907 Matilda (Jean) COLLINS > > Royal Navy WWI. I think he was in the RN Reserve. He is not listed as a > regular in the British National Archives (on-line). > > I know that a number of dockyard tradesmen enlisted in the RNR before WWI > and I suspect he was one of them. I saw photos of him as an Artisan in > Petty Officers uniform and another in uniform as an Artificer. Family > story is that he was a Chief Shipwright. That is consistent with the > uniforms. He may also have served in the RAN but I can find no records at > AWM or National Archives in Canberra. > > His wife and two daughters travelled to Australia in the Shropshire in Aug > 1914. I understand he planned to go with them but obviously the war > intervened. He came to Australia post WWI. > > He died Avalon Sydney NSW in 1960. > > Ring any bells? > > Peter Ferguson > NSW Australia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-BELFAST-CITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message