Not sure if this has been posted before, I've just come across it:
http://www.britishcolonist.ca/
Regards,
Ann
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That’s quite a find Ann, I don’t think I’ve seen it before. The format is interesting.
I was hoping to find something about a Welsh relative of mine by name of Harold Glynn(e) Williams. The North Wales Chronicle, 11th September, 1897, reported that he had died as a result of a fall down the hatchway of his ship, "Silverhorn," at Vancouver, British Columbia.
And there it was in the Daily Colonist, on September 8th.
A Sailor Lad Killed by falling down a Hatchway at Vancouver.
Vancouver, Sept.7.—(Special) —Harold Williams, an apprentice on the British ship Silberhorn, which has just finished unloading a cargo of general merchandise from Liverpool, lost his life yesterday morning by falling down a hatch from amidship on his head, fracturing the skull and spine.
This poor lad had won the Queen’s Gold Medal a couple of years previously for being the most popular boy on the Training Ship Conway. According to the London Times his sister, Nesta, sold the medal in 1940 for £4 10s. and gave the proceeds to the Lord Mayor’s Appeal for the Sick and Wounded.
Another sister, Hilda, seems to have come to British Columbia in 1910 and became the notorious Hilda Glynn-Ward.
Thanks for that,
Alan
I was hoping to find something about a Welsh relative of mine by name of Harold Glynn(e) Williams. The North Wales Chronicle, 11th September, 1897, reported that he had died as a result of a fall down the hatchway of his ship, "Silverhorn," at Vancouver, British Columbia.
And there it was in the Daily Colonist, on September 8th.
A Sailor Lad Killed by falling down a Hatchway at Vancouver.
Vancouver, Sept.7.—(Special) —Harold Williams, an apprentice on the British ship Silberhorn, which has just finished unloading a cargo of general merchandise from Liverpool, lost his life yesterday morning by falling down a hatch from amidship on his head, fracturing the skull and spine.
This poor lad had won the Queen’s Gold Medal a couple of years previously for being the most popular boy on the Training Ship Conway. According to the London Times his sister, Nesta, sold the medal in 1940 for £4 10s. and gave the proceeds to the Lord Mayor’s Appeal for the Sick and Wounded.
Another sister, Hilda, seems to have come to British Columbia in 1910 and became the notorious Hilda Glynn-Ward.
Thanks for that,
Alan