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From: "Brian Cave" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] Deaths At Sea
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:27:41 -0000
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Mea Culpa - I should have said England and Wales rather than UK - Scottish
BMD regulations are of course different to ours - they might have been late
off the mark but they made up for it other ways!! <grin>

Having said that though, there is a lot of difference between the loss of a
single 'body', and the loss of an entire vessel and its crew.

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. Stevenson." <>
To: "Brian Cave" <>; <>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Mar] Deaths At Sea


>
>
>
> >
> > Unfortunately, depending on the circumstances, you may never locate a
> death
> > certificate. In UK, No body = No certificate. So if he was lost at
> sea......
>
> Good morning Jan & Brian,
> Not so , at least in Scotland !
> My g grandfather and his two sons drowned in 1881 when their ship was lost
.
> No bodies were recovered but there are three death certificates lodged in
> New Register House, Edinburgh.
> The following is entered under "Cause of Death"
> " Drowned by the foundering of a schooner in a gale of wind . Body not
> found at date of registration"
> Details of seamen's deaths at sea from 1852 to 1881 can also be found in
> REGISTERS OF WAGES AND EFFECTS OF DECEASED SEAMEN under BT 153 at PRO
> ,London
> BT 154 is INDEX TO SEAMEN'S NAMES.
> BT 155 is INDEX TO SHIPS NAMES.
>
> Regards.
> John.
>
> John D.Stevenson,
> Raining, very mild, 11C
> Edinburgh.
>
>
>

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