Harry Denby Harrison

[jess5athome]

Hi, I have just started researching my family tree and found this site, can you believe my luck, Harry Denby Harrison was my Grandmothers brother.

[squinth]

Harry Denby was my husbands grandfather . I have lots of info about him as I lodged there at one time. I know he had a sister called Ivy but that is the only sibling I know of and have not found any others but I am sure there was more. He came from a long line of seafaring men . His father and grandfather were master mariners .i can look up the tree on the computer for you tomorrow . I also think I may have some photos.

[squinth]

Just had another thought was your grandmother called Mary ?

[jess5athome]

Hi, yes Mary was my Grandmother, I remember going to Ivy`s as a child, she was a lovely woman married to Bill.
They used to live at the back of the old baths, before that they lived down one of the streets which backed onto the railway lines opposite the new morrisons.

[kinglad]

In 1911 Census Harry is living in 30 southern street goole with a frances ball aged 31 and a grace evelyn denby aged 18. Harry died in 1983.

[jess5athome]

Hi, many thanks for that.
Regards,
jess5athome

[bendywendy]

I have today been to the local library and obtained a copy of the newspaper report for Harry Denby Harrison and a postcard picture of SS Douglas.

If anyone would like a copy of either or both, please send me a PM with your email address.

bendywendy

[bendywendy]

Found this info relating to the Douglas at Goole Library:

Info taken from:  Goole  A port in Green Fields by Joyce Mankowska by Sessions of York 1973

Page 30
1907 saw Rawcliffe, Saltmarshe & Douglas arriving to swell the fleet.

Page 49
The White-painted Douglas, with her sister the Rother, a veteran of the butter trade from Copenhagen, was sold to Stanhope Steamship Co and renamed Stancourt, the Rother went on trading as before.

Page 52
In the years immediately before the war, the Douglas had been sold and renamed no less than four times. As Nephelgeretis, Hermes, Suzy & Iona, she sailed the Greek seas until she was sunk as a war loss in 1940

[bendywendy]

For those who have copies of the newspaper article and the postcard of the Douglas, could you try and upload these onto this thread, I have tried several times and it just keeps saying "file too big" well me n IT just don't gel of how to reduce the file size.

Thanks, b.