James Mason - ship engineer

[Joyce Young]

I am trying to find out information about a James Mason who I believe may have lived in Garfield Street or Drive in Bootle, Liverpool in 1884-can anyone help?

[Blue70]

Garfield Street, Bootle can be seen on this old map there's a zoom out facility for a bigger map:-

http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/liverpoolaz/A7.htm

Can you give us any more details for the James Mason you are looking for ie where he was born, age, relations etc.


Blue

[Joyce Young]

Thank you for this . I believe James Mason was born around 1832 and was married to an Elizabeth Ronald ( who was born about 1830). The marriage I believe took place in Paisley on 7 April 1857. He seems to have died before 1884 as he is noted as deceased on the marriage certificate of his son , another James Mason(born around 1859 in England) who married a Clara Coulthurst in Paisley on 20 October 1884. I have tried to locate James and Elizabeth with their son James ( who was born about 1859 in England )without success on the census in England and Scotland. The only other information I have is that James Mason who married Elizabeth Ronald  was a ship engineer with the Board of the ships of the Canadian Line (Merchant Service).I wondered if he might have been at sea when the census took place in 1861 and 1871.

[Blue70]

I thought there would have been a probate record for him with him being an engineer but no sign of one. The only possible death index that I thought might be him is the one below. The name is quite common so it's a difficult one.

Name: James Mason
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1869
Age at Death: 38
Registration district: West Derby
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 321


Blue

[Blue70]

Is this your James Mason? Do you have this? This one says unmarried.

1861 England Census

Name: James Mason
Age: 28
Condition: unmarried
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833
Relation: 3rd Engineer (Engineer)
Gender: Male
Where born: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Civil parish: Vessels
Ship: "Arabia" at Liverpool
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England


Blue

[Blue70]

This is the birth of the James Mason from Stirlingshire:-

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X17H-Y86


Blue

[Louisamay]

Hi,
The James Mason that Blue found seems to be the same that married Elizabeth Ronald in 1857.
Marriage details on Scotlands People give parents as James Mason and Jean/Jane Mason nee Brown.




Anne

[Joyce Young]

Thanks everyone for this - I think I might be on the right track now.