Deaths at Sea...help!@

[Famgen123]

I'm appealing for any advice or leads to locating a death certificate for my 3x Great Grandfather John Cleugh who was lost at sea on 14 April 1876 aboard the Shiping Vessel "The Margaret McDonald" he was aged 20 an Engine Fitter and his Father in law Henry Broomfield/Bloomfield was captain of the ship he was aged 38. On John's death at sea Registered Entry which is located  on ancestry (BT 159/8) at the end of the entry it states "Cert 30 June 1882". Thank you x

[JenB]

The death was registered in Scotland. You will find it via Scotland’s People.
John Cleugh aged 20, 1876. Registration District ‘Marine Returns’.
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https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

[ShaunJ]

The marine death records say he was missing, supposed drowned (missing since 13 April 1876).

There's a death announcement in the Berwickshire News and General Advertiser of 8 August 1876: " Lost at sea, John Cleugh, son of Wm and Eleanor Cleugh, Sunderland, late of Berwick, aged 20 years, deeply regretted".

[ShaunJ]

I think the "Cert 30 June 1882" bit may refer to the previous entry on the schedule.

[hendo1976]

Thank you to all who helped in my search. Does anybody know if there is a registered entry For John Cleugh's Father in law who was captain of The Margaret McDonald which foundered on or shortly after 13 April 1876 off the yorkshire and lincolnshire coasts.

Thank you
Lee
 

[ShaunJ]

Yes - Henry Bloomfield, 38, from Lymington. Master of the Margaret McDonald, missing since 13 April 1876. 23 Bramwell Street, Sunderland. BT 159/1 schedule 129 folio 137.

[LizzieW]

Shaun - Is there a death listed for a John Alden around 1878-1880.  Either off Yorkshire/Lincolnshire coasts, or anywhere in the North Sea.  Not the John Alden who drowned in 1906 that was his son.

Thanks in anticipation.

[ShaunJ]

Is there a death listed for a John Alden around 1878-1880

Nothing in the Marine Deaths

[LizzieW]

Thanks for looking - this man just seems to have disappeared into thin air.  His wife became my g.gran when she got together with g.grandad (just put his photo as my avatar) and on the birth cert of her last child with John Alden, she put that he was deceased.  Whether he was or not, I know my g.grandparents didn't marry.