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Re: what is the uniform this man is wearing?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 21 May 13 20:16 BST (UK) »
Bingo!

http://www.ssmaritime.com/MS-Bulolo.htm

Actually Burns, Philp & Company
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Re: what is the uniform this man is wearing?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 21 May 13 20:20 BST (UK) »
Got a bit more - Burns Philp and Co was formed in 1883, and ceased trading in 1970.

http://www.flotilla-australia.com/burnsphilp.htm
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Re: what is the uniform this man is wearing?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 22 May 13 07:14 BST (UK) »
many thanks stevew101 for your interesting link to BP which I remember well from my teenage days of delivering a shipping newspaper to BP and many other companies in Sydney. Cheers wallaroo
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Re: what is the uniform this man is wearing?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 22 May 13 07:15 BST (UK) »
Hopefuly thats the one you are seeking
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Re: what is the uniform this man is wearing?
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 22 May 13 15:51 BST (UK) »
I hope so stevew101. I am having trouble finding a bloke in our tree that would have been born c.1853. In  a family of sailors there is only one that we know anything about :((
Robertson, Gourlay (Scotland)
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Lord (England)
Morris (Yorkshire, England)
Morris, Taylor (Sydney, Australia)
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