Hello Folks,
Is there some kind soul out there who would be good enough to look up the Canadian Passenger List 1865-1935 on Ancestry?
I have the bog standard subscription, but not the worldwide one unfortunately.
I am looking for a William Black, born 1873 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, who is down on the relevant censuses as a boilermaker/iron bridge builder (ideas above his station, methinks!). He disappeared after his wife died in childbirth, leaving four young kiddies in the care of his sister-in-law, never to be seen again it seems. We think he worked in the boiler-room of a cable laying ship 'Patrol', and have a photograph to that effect. However, family stories went that he was once in the Far East in Indonesia, and was seen on a bogey-cart on the railways in Canada. It would have been after 1901 when he 'did a runner', but beyond that we have no idea of his whereabouts. This is my husband's true grandfather, and we would love to try and solve the mystery of William Black.
Many thanks,
Chris
Is there some kind soul out there who would be good enough to look up the Canadian Passenger List 1865-1935 on Ancestry?
I have the bog standard subscription, but not the worldwide one unfortunately.
I am looking for a William Black, born 1873 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, who is down on the relevant censuses as a boilermaker/iron bridge builder (ideas above his station, methinks!). He disappeared after his wife died in childbirth, leaving four young kiddies in the care of his sister-in-law, never to be seen again it seems. We think he worked in the boiler-room of a cable laying ship 'Patrol', and have a photograph to that effect. However, family stories went that he was once in the Far East in Indonesia, and was seen on a bogey-cart on the railways in Canada. It would have been after 1901 when he 'did a runner', but beyond that we have no idea of his whereabouts. This is my husband's true grandfather, and we would love to try and solve the mystery of William Black.
Many thanks,
Chris
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