Hi Jenny Thanks for your email and the interest in my request regards, Buddug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Stiles" <jstiles@optusnet.com.au> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 8:27 AM Subject: Re: drowning between Tralee and Schull > Hi Buddug. > Unfortunately, your family member may have just had the misfortune to have > been lost overboard. On of mine was presumed to have fallen overboard 1 > Dec > 1889 aged 19 on the way to the Cape of Good Hope. His fate is only known > from a letter written to his parents. > I hope you manage to solve your mystery. > >>From Jenny, Sydney, Australia > My Family History Website > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~becher/index.htm > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Buddug Hollett" <buddugh@talktalk.net> > To: <IRL-CORK@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 12:22 AM > Subject: drowning between Tralee and Schull > > >> Hello >> I'm trying to establish how a member of my ancestral family drowned >> between Tralee and Schull on the 9th February 1884 whilst a crew member >> on >> a vessel . Unfortunately I don't have the name of the ship . All I have >> is >> the inscription on the family gravestone naming him as Lewis Williams >> aged >> 14 ys ,drowned between the places mentioned above .It did imply that his >> body wasn't recovered . He came from Newuay ,Cardiganshire Wales . >> Does anyone know of any shipping disasters for that time and in the areas >> mentioned or any newspaper report of the drowning ? >> many thanks >> Buddug Hollett >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message