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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Q&A

    Dec 15, 2020 8 minutes
    EDITED BY CLAIRE VAUGHAN

    KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset

    EMMA JOLLY is a writer, historical researcher and member of AGRA

    ANTONY MARR is a former deputy registrar and the new chair of AGRA

    CHRIS PATON is a genealogist and author, and blogs at scottishgenes.blogspot.com

    JAYNE SHRIMPTON is a professional dress historian and portrait specialist

    PHIL TOMASELLI is a military family history expert, and wrote Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors

    SIMON WILLS is the author of Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors

    Was my great great uncle ‘lost at sea’?

    Q My great great uncle, Peter Cassander Celestine (O’)Callaghan, was born on 7 January 1854 in Hardway, Gosport, Hampshire. He had a career at sea in the Merchant Navy from 1870 to 1907 (age 53), after which I can find no further trace of him.

    Peter’s seafaring career is well documented including entries in the Lloyd’s Captains’ Registers. I have details of the numerous voyages that he made, the last recorded one as master of the SS Terek , which sailed for the Baltic on 6 June 1907.

    There is no record of him marrying, nor a death certificate. I vaguely recall being told he was lost overboard. How can I find out what happened to him?

    John Hoar

    I have looked at the records of ‘deaths abroad’ and ‘deaths at sea’ on TheGenealogist () and Findmypast () respectively under

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