June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Manchester Rambler]

Found this on Google at http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Merchant/Sail/E/Edwin_Fox(1853).html

Edwin Fox
A wooden full-rigged ship built of teak and part saul in 1853 at Sulkeah, Bengali. Dimensions: 144'8"×29'8"×23'6" and tonnage: 836 GRT, 836 NRT and 747 tons under deck.
Later re-rigged as a barque

[...]

1865
LR 1865-66: Owner: Gellatly & Co., London; Master: Captain McClean was replaced by Captain A. Morrison.
1865 August - 1867 February
In command of Captain Alexander. J. Molison, Brechin, Scotland. Died ashore in Bombay from Typhoid Fever, on 23 Feb 1867.
1860[?]
LR 1860-61: Owner: Gellatly & Co., London; Master: Captain R. Johnson.
1867 February - 1867 October
In command of Captain Alexander Strachan Molison, Brechin, Stepney.

Then on http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/edwinfox.htm

1867 February 23     Captain Alexander J.  Molison of Brechin, Scotland aged 32 died while living ashore, as was the custom, at Bombay from Typhoid Fever.  Captain Alexander Stachan Molison, aged 65 years, probably a distant relative, assumed command.  He was one of the ship's owners.

Rambler

[Paul E]

This is on Google: PARTICULARS of SUNDRY DEBTS DUE TO THE ESTATE OF Jane Dow, a Bankrupt (1826)

http://www.londonancestor.com/misc/misc-dow.htm

Listed are debts of £200 to George Robertson, Ships Chandler of Limehouse, and £226 to Douglas & Robertson, Ships Chandlers of Limehouse.

Paul

[alcrighton]

Manchester Rambler (or The Manc Marathon as we like to call you here on Merseyside! - that's a great summary: do you take commissions for writing up family histories?

I've lost the Google reference I found to Robertson's Chandlers in London, and couldn't find them when I looked again.  Will have another search!

Paul

I agree this is a great summary however with 82 contributions to this thread in less than 24 hours, finding these summaries again is likely require a lot of trawling through the pages of the thread as the month goes on.

How about a second thread on the Commom Room board just for the summaries?  The post could be locked so that only the summaries would appear and if it was defined as a sticky topic (does a moderator have to do that?) it would stay at the top of the board.

What do you think Rambler?

Allan (Not the one we're looking for )

[Manchester Rambler]

I agree this is a great summary however with 82 contributions to this thread in less than 24 hours, finding these summaries again is likely require a lot of trawling through the pages of the thread as the month goes on.

How about a second thread on the Commom Room board just for the summaries?  The post could be locked so that only the summaries would appear and if it was defined as a sticky topic (does a moderator have to do that?) it would stay at the top of the board.

What do you think Rambler?

Allan (Not the one we're looking for )

If the summaries help, I'll gladly start a separate thread for them.  As long as I update regularly they should stay visible.  (Thinks: What am I letting myself in for???)

In the meantime, Alexander Strachan Molison's first wife was called Augusta Jane (yes, another one!), also known as Jane.  Their children from IGI extracted records:

Augusta Jane Molison, chr. 15 Sep 1833 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London
Alexander Joseph Molison, chr. 03 Jul 1836 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London
Mary Jean Molison, chr. 07 Oct 1838 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London
Duncan Dunbar Molison, chr. 20 May 1846 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London
Eliza Wilson Molison, chr. 21 Sep 1848 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London

No mention of Mary Marshall Molison, but there's a big gap between Mary Jean and Duncan Dunbar.

A few more folk to follow up!

Rambler

[Manchester Rambler]

Free BMD has a death for Mary Jean Molison:

Deaths Mar 1839
Molison  Mary Jean    Stepney  2 351

Molison births in Stepney:

Births Jun 1840
Molison  William James     Stepney  2 468

Births Dec 1845
Molison  Duncan Dunbar     Stepney  2 465

I guess William James is another of Alexander's sons?

Rambler

[Lesanne]

   Just reading from a book on Stepney,  St Dunstan and All Saint's , was the
      only church in the area, and served several hamlets.

  Now Tower Hamlets and Hackey, the old Manor House was in Bethnal Green.

   The villages from the churchyard to the river were Ratcliff,Shadwell,Wapping, with
   Lime house, Poplar and Mile End, making up the rest of St Dunstans area.

    Just thought it may help to pinpoint where they lived.

                             Lesanne.

[Lesanne]

  Haileybury College, a public school founded by East India Company.

   Some notable pupils there, but can't find good site for archive registers.

            Lesanne.

[Paul E]

Can we *presume*  that Claude may be out of the country in 1871 and 1901?

This family's obvious maritime connections, and links to America, may mean that our transatlantic Rootschaters can work the nightshift and find Clause for us!

What I find really puzzling is that Claude Robeetson isn't with his parents as a 3 year old in 1871.  By 1901 I could understand an emigration.

Over to you, our American cousins!

Paul

[liverpool annie]

Paul

I think your procedure gave you Obsessive Compulsive Disorder..........

You're bound and determined to find Claude aren't you???

We'll try tonight OK?

Annie

ps he was in school - boarding in '81