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Topic: Born aboard a boat Inverkeithing, Fife 1910 (Read 225 times)
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creamolafoam
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I Have a birth record of a family member born 1909 or 1910 Inverkeithing, Fife. (Scotland's people) Was there a passenger vessel or the like docking there at that time does anyone know. Apparently she was born on board a boat or a ship? Don't have any more info appart from the fact her middle name was 'Rewa'. Could that be the name of a boat? Help! Carol 
PS Can't open the image to view because of time factor. Would have to order cert... but I might cos I'm curious
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excel
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Have you found out yet?
Could the person have been born on one of the ferries that crossed the Forth?
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Cline: Ireland and Berwick on Twieed
Collin: Eyemouth
Clyne: Ireland, Berwickshire, Northumberland
Barns, Barnes: Fife
Walker: Edinburgh & Stirling
Laing, Wilson, Forrest, Forrester, Colven, Rae, Cowe, Buglass, Johnson, Wilson, Thorburn, Darling, Broomfield, : Berwickshire
McRaw, Cameron, Taylor, Gould/Guild, McIntyre, Maxton, McDonald, Douglass : Perthshire
Cormack, Campbell, Sutherland, Doull: Caithness
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Henry7
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The 'Rewa' was indeed a ship, launched in 1905 and owned by the British India line.
It was used as a hospital ship in WW1, and was sunk by a U-boat in the Bristol Channel in 1918. This naturally caused a sensation at the time. Could your relation have actually been born in 1918, perhaps? It might account for her middle name.
My father worked with the British India line in the 1920s, and he told me that it was widely believed among his workmates that the 'Rewa' was in fact an armed merchant ship disguised as a hospital ship, hence the sinking. Maybe just a tale; I have no idea.
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Ballingall, Donaldson, Fulton, Gillespie, Ramsay, Walker - in Fife.
Jack - in Glasgow.
Birmingham/Bermingham - in Ireland.
Eagle - in Norfolk, Midlothian & Glasgow.
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Chiad Fhear
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Aye mair questions than answers!
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Come on Henry7
Get the register page from ScotlandsPeople and give us the answer!
Curiosity once killed a cat don't forget 
Regards
Chiad Fhear
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Aye mair questions than answers in a world where the past was a different place - that cannae be revisited! Family surnames being researched ... Crawford, Neilson, Lindsay, Reekie, Davidson Drummond, Pearson, Laing ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more! Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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davaar36
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The nautical connection with "Rewa" may be a red herring. Rewa means "slender" in New Zealand and is used as a girl's name. Inverkeithing's main connection with shipping is as a breakers' yard
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Chiad Fhear
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Aye mair questions than answers!
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It may be a breaker's yard nowadays ... but Carol's going back a hundred years 
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Chiad Fhear
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Aye mair questions than answers in a world where the past was a different place - that cannae be revisited! Family surnames being researched ... Crawford, Neilson, Lindsay, Reekie, Davidson Drummond, Pearson, Laing ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more! Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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davaar36
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Chiad Fhear
That's a fair point. Breaking started just after World War I when surplus navy ships became available at nearby Rosyth.
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