My 3rd great grandfather Samuel Alexander Park born 10th April 1851, Greenwich, London, England. Died 4th June 1894 aboard the Wing Sang as it approached Singapore. He was a qualified Master Mariner, but was working as 2nd Mate on the Wing Sang.
He seems to have spent a lot of time in Sydney, Australia, and other parts of New South Wales. The New South Wales Police Gazette has an article, dated 16th August 1882, Sydney, a warrant has been issued by the Water Police Bench fr the arrest of Samuel Park, charged with feloniously uttering a forged receipt for £20 to H. Vaughn, agent, of King Street, on 31st May last. Birth circa 1852.
There is a record on familysearch.org of his imprisonment in 1882 in New South Wales. Prison name: Darlinghurst. Ship name: Hornet.
In 1871 age 20 he was on the ship Nagpore, and on the 1881 census he was 2nd Mate on the Goa.
He got his Masters qualification in 1883.
In 1884 he married my 3rd great grandmother in London, England, but appeared in Sydney, Australia later that year, and seems to disappear out of her life. I am fairly sure her two children were his, as they took his surname, and he is named on my 2nd great grandmother's marriage record, but they were born before the parents' marriage. I have never found any kind of money trail to find out if he was supporting them financially. On the 1891 census his wife, saying she had no income or job, was living with her sister and wealthy brother in law, though the latter died the same year of alcoholism and the sister seems to have struggled financially.
I am very curious if there is any information in Australia about Samuel Alexander Park.
