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Occupation Interests / Re: Merchant Navy CR 10 help
« on: Saturday 07 October 23 17:13 BST (UK)  »
Hello all.

Just an update on my search. It seems that the death certificate obtained for my grandfather some years ago, is his after all.

I worked through the electoral rolls where he was listed at 62 Bostock St up until 1934. His brother Martin is listed at the same address.

Both are absent for that address in the 1935-1936 election and a Martin Brown is listed at an address in William Henry St that year. Patrick (my grandfather’s) death certificate is March 1935 and the same address is given, so it must be him.

I’m still baffled by his second marriage, though. The death cert was registered by his wife. The only marriage I have found recorded is one to a Christina Honan, in which Patrick is down as a bachelor with the wrong father’s name. This is what led me to believe that the death cert was not my family’s.
My grandfather’s spouse appears to have the initial A, but I can’t locate the record.

For those interested in the deaths of both of his babies in the same month - Feb 1924 - his 24 year old sister Julia, died the same month. Three funerals, in the same cemetery - one a week for 3 weeks. 🥲
Wife dies a childbirth a few years later, and then death in your 3Os a few years after that.
What harsh times our poorer ancestors suffered.

Thank you all so much for the help given - it is so much appreciated.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Merchant Navy CR 10 help
« on: Wednesday 04 October 23 15:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi Paco.

Yes, you have the right family.
They are his parents/siblings.
My mother (who was fostered after her mother's death).was told of his death in the 1930s but we have never been able to find the death certificate.
I was hoping the log book on his last voyage may shed some light
but apparently he may have had further voyages after 1933.
Do you know why his card may be stamped 1933 if the last voyage was a year before that?

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Occupation Interests / Re: Merchant Navy CR 10 help
« on: Wednesday 04 October 23 11:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi amondg

Yes, just to clarify. I was mistaken about having a C10 card - it is actually his medal card which includes his address. I remember my mother telling me the street name she lived in, so it is definitely him. I can also see a family resemblance to my sister!

His wife was, indeed, Elizabeth Chambers who he married in 1920.
She sadly died in childbirth in 1930.

Just to clarify about the death certificate. It was signed by his wife, so I searched for a Liverpool marriage certificate for Patrick Brown between 1930 and 1935. I found one for a 1931 wedding. The certificate lists Patrick as a bachelor, however, and his father’s name is different, so I think that must be the Patrick who died in 1935.
I can’t find my grandfather’s death certificate.
I’m wondering whether:
He really died at that time?
Died at sea?
Died abroad?
Hmmm…..

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Occupation Interests / Re: Merchant Navy CR 10 help
« on: Tuesday 03 October 23 20:09 BST (UK)  »
Hi Paco

Thank you for your reply
My grandfather was born in Liverpool on 1/2/1896
His wife, Elizabeth, died before him, 1930.
I had thought I had found his death certificate as a Patrick Brown of roughly the same age died in Liverpool in 1935.
The death certificate showed it was not my grandfather. His father's name was different on the death cert and he had a wife!
The family were unaware that my grandfather may have remarried but I still thought it was a possibility until the father's name showed it not to be him.
There was another Patrick Brown born in Liverpool in 1897 so it could have been him (probs of an extremely common surname!).
Any help.would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

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Lancashire Lookup Offers / Re: Ford & Yew Tree Cemetery Records
« on: Sunday 01 October 23 23:35 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Marianne. Grave H405 are my ancestors. This has saved me so much time and trouble.

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Occupation Interests / Merchant Navy CR 10 help
« on: Thursday 28 September 23 18:23 BST (UK)  »
I have recently obtained a CR10 for my grandfather from an ancestry site. I am delighted it includes a photo - as the family have never seen one, but it appears to be lacking other info. It includes:

Name
Address
Year of Birth
RS2 number
Cert or Dis A number
Merchant Marine Ribbon and Merchant Marine Medal issue dates
British Medal date

We have never been able to find a death certificate for my grandfather and hoped the CR 10 would shed some light, for example, a date of discharge or reference to his death - perhaps at sea.

Could anyone kindly point me in the right direction to find out more?
Ribbon issued in 1919 and he is believed to have died in the mid 1930s.
Tia.

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