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Fife / Re: Captain Alexander Storm, Tayport
« on: Sunday 16 March 14 15:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi - if this reply qualifies as "Post Number 3," we are all set! I hope you can consult with Phyllis Barlow and see all the work she has done on McNair/Taylor family trees at ancestry.com. She has been at this far longer than I. I shall contact my sisters and my Aunt (Captain McNair's granddaughter, living in Burnaby, British Columbia) to gather more information about Capt. Storm. Don

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Fife / Re: Captain Alexander Storm, Tayport
« on: Sunday 16 March 14 13:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Karytay - all of a sudden, it appears that I can reply ... how mysterious. I am the great-grandson of Capt Francis McNair (1852-1924), husband of Elizabeth Taylor (1858-1925), married 1883. He was a friend of Alexander Storm, and my parents were friends of Storm's daughters (I met Bessie Storm briefly in England in 1978), although other details about Storm remain hazy for us. Likewise with the Taylor family. I know that Elizabeth was born in Ballarat and came to England as a child, and that her sister Susan ("Aunt Susie") minded the Captain's three boys (Cedric, Archibald, and Tom, the last being my grandfather) in Forest Gate when Elizabeth was aboard Puritan in 1891 with Francis and their newest baby, Bessie. I would love to hear from you! (Thanks also to Seaweed for the advice to consult the Lloyd's Captains Register.) In case I cannot get through again, Karytay, please consider emailing me directly, (*) Don in Vernon, British Columbia

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Fife / Re: Captain Alexander Storm, Tayport
« on: Wednesday 25 December 13 16:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Chudleigh: I am very interested in your message mentioning a photograph album of "Scottish captains who stayed in San Francisco," among them Alexander Storm (b 1848, Ayrshire). I suspect he was born in Fairlie, like my great-grandfather, Francis McNair (b 1852) who also went to sea in command of windjammers, was a friend of Alexander (I think they both married daughters of Peter Taylor, another mariner), and put in to San Francisco many times. Alexander's daughters, Bessie and Katey, remained in touch with my family well into the 1970s. There is family lore to the effect that Alexander would not go over to steam, whereas Francis did in 1896. Would you forward a scan of Alexander's image from the album? It may be that we have a photo of him, but don't know him to see him. Of course, if the album includes a photo of Captain Francis McNair, I would love to see that, too.
A Merry Christmas to you!
Don McNair (Vernon, British Columbia)

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