dmccoy-rea <dmccoy@rea-alp.com> said: >I am looking for DENNIS MC COY who our family history says was a "seaman" It's a long shot, but you might take a look at the following: http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/dir/maritime.html National Maritime Museum of Ireland http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/maritime/Site.html Maritime Research and Seamen and consider the fact that seamen sometimes show up in the newspapers as litigants or defendants in court cases, such as suing a ship owner over lost wages, or being charged by a ship captain with failure to fulfil a contract. Anbd of course there is always the possibility of their being listed among the survivors or the lost in a shipwreck, such as the following: M'COY, George; ; Plymouth DEV ENG>at sea ; Cork Examiner (COR IRL); 1864-7-2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
If you manage to track your lost sailor to a specific port and then lose the trail, look at the obituaries in local newspapers for that port and also check the coroner's office for possible photos of sailors whose bodies were recovered after drowning - not exactly glamour shots, but recognizable more often than not. In the case of my late uncle we knew that his father had disappeared at the NYC harbor. Waterfront gangs were very common then. The coroner's office there has almost 400 photos (something like 385 +/- when I checked years ago) of sailors who were probably murdered, robbed and rolled into the water during the 1920's. Such waterfront gangs commonly preyed upon seamen at most ports around the world. It was simpler for the captain of the ship to list them as having not returned to the ship (deserter). Local authorities found it easier to write them off as accidental drownings. It's a case where all responsible parties looked the other way, quickly and quietly. Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Ahern" <ahern@world.std.com> To: <IRL-CORK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:11 AM Subject: Re: Sailors from Cork > > dmccoy-rea <dmccoy@rea-alp.com> said: > >>I am looking for DENNIS MC COY who our family history says was a "seaman" > > It's a long shot, but you might take a look at the following: > > http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/dir/maritime.html > National Maritime Museum of Ireland > > http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/maritime/Site.html > Maritime Research and Seamen > > and consider the fact that seamen sometimes show up in the newspapers as > litigants or defendants in court cases, such as suing a ship owner over > lost wages, or being charged by a ship captain with failure to fulfil a > contract. Anbd of course there is always the possibility of their being > listed among the survivors or the lost in a shipwreck, such as the > following: > > M'COY, George; ; Plymouth DEV ENG>at sea ; Cork Examiner (COR IRL); > 1864-7-2 > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts > Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > ==== IRL-CORK Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb, a user-supported enterprise http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx