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Fife / Re: Captain Alexander Storm
« on: Wednesday 09 May 12 23:20 BST (UK)  »
I have a photograph album of Scottish Sea captains who stayed in San Francisco.  One of them is of Alexander Storm born Morayshire 1848, and he appears to have been one of the two Alexanders from Findhorn.  All I know about him is that in 1880-1881 he was captain of the barque, 'Duncraig', of Glasgow, and that by 1887 his ship was the 'Seiriol Wyn' (or something like).  Can anyone help identify this Alexander?

Just signed up to let you know I have come across him too while hunting down a Captain John Storm down here in Australia who is my great-great-great Grandfather. I am still trying to determine if Alexander is a direct relative but I can tell you he spent a lot of time in Australia the Duncraig under him ran around 24 times between Australia and New Zealand and once or twice to Shanghai and San Francisco that I can tell from various newspaper articles from the time.

There is a plethora of articles on him from the Australian national archives http://trove.nla.gov.au/ if you do a search for "Captain Storm" and sort by Decade. Still pulling it all together and cross checking dates but thought it was worth mentioning. :)

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